as a reddit refugee i mostly use lemmy, but sometimes i go back by a lack of alternative to some subreddit, which one you feel there is a need ?

    • the_kgb@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      oh i feel this so hard. i hope the mods are collating their best answers and saving the info to somehow bring over here.

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        You should send the mods a mail to see if they have any Lemmy plans. It’s worth it just to know. Sometimes they don’t have a plan but they do know of a good alt community for you to try out

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          I believe you can just create your own Magazine (sub) if there isn’t currently one out there! Start that bad boy up!

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          that’s a great idea. they must know about the fediverse’s existence, but they may not know that Lemmy is actually viable.

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    OP, please don’t go making empty ghost communities based on the feedback here. That would be worse than no community at all. Communities should be created by topic enthusiasts.

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      r/Sex is a good one, however 90% of questions could be answered by “talk to your partner”. I’ll agree that it is a positive community for general discussion about sex though.

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    There are enough communities, there just aren’t enough posts and comments.

    Most posts on the communities I see are just links with one or two comments.

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    come July 1st, i think you’ll find a lot of people making that final push to come over here, try to figure out what the fediverse is, and moderate (or create from whole cloth) the communities they used to have. i certainly don’t have the time nor expertise to moderate any community, but i know lots of folks will come over here. July is gonna be huge.

    now fix the bot problem and we’re gonna be ok.

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    I’ll say it for everyone (and myself), NSFW communities. Reddit is still effectively king for that, at least for now.

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      There is a fair few out there, one main issue is that you can’t even get a list of nsfw communities without being logged in on the instances they’re created in.

      IIRC the only instance that patches that check out and is remotely discoverable because of it is lemmynsfw. Whatever communities other instances have are basically hidden to all but the select few who know about them / have an account there and goes to look them up.

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      I may be in the minority here, but I don’t miss the sexual NSFW content from reddit at all. I was getting tired of seeing OF accounts posting semi-flirtatious things in completely unrelated subs in order to garner attention.

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      It was totally new to me that people use Reddit for porn. Actually, I only realised that because they were complaining about the supposed lack of these communities on Lemmy. So, you aren’t really speaking for everyone…

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    Programming Languages and Compilers. To be clear: The former exists on programming.dev, but there’s a serious lack of activity.

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    I miss some dedicated meme subreddits:

    • prequelmemes
    • sequelmemes
    • lotrmemes

    They were always good for a laugh.

    Oh! And highqualitygifs.

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        It’s a a send-up of the supposedly “feel-good” stories about people that go above and beyond to make the horrors of some societal problem (usually capitalism) less horrifying for somebody. Like, when a child holds a 48 hr lemonade sale marathon to erase the lunch debt of his/her peers. Yeah, it’s a nice thing to do, but it should NOT be necessary.

        The idea is that we would see stories talking about how great this person is for slowing down an orphan crushing machine, without questioning the need for an orphan crushing machine in the first place.

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          It still is terrible but a different kind of terrible compared to what I was expecting. Thanks!