/r/askhistorians mostly.
same here i think I miss them the most.
I can’t believe I forgot about the quality of those posts.
Miss the network effect, don’t miss the amount of dudes there who very loudly lacked any female friends
looks around Lemmy
Well of coarse you don’t miss it. You’re still surrounded by them.
Miss:
- Sheer number of users giving rise to lively niche communities
- Searchability
Not miss:
Asshole business modelHmmmmm…I don’t REMEMBER writing this post…or having that account…wait, are you a different person with my same opinions??? Ok, quick, what are your opinions on POGs???
I got recently diagnosed with autism and r/autism is the reason I started using Reddit again after more than a year. I would prefer using Lemmy for this but there’s barely any activity in autism community on Lemmy. Yeah, I know, I should be the change I want to see. I promise I will try to post something there!
Why do you need a community when that’s basically all of Lemmy?
^sorry couldn’t resist and don’t mean to offend^
Haha, no worries! There’s definitely some truth in this.
Dont apologize for saying whats reality.
Amount of content. Virtually unending streams of whatever you want in any major sub. Here it’s much slower. That results in more personal interaction in the comments though, which I greatly appreciate.
I miss the number of users meaning there was always some kind soul also interested in my niche interest, be it coding, obscure band I just found… that was neat. :)
I don’t miss the number of users meaning lame memes and boring gibberish clogging the pipes, not to mention the argument people on the big subs. :/
IMO: Anytime you had a question that you wanted to learn about, whether it be shows or science, you could go into your preferred search engine and type reddit and [your question].
A good amount of discussions on the topic would show up and still do.
One day people will use Lemmy as the search engine to look for those discussions, hopefully!
Funny, literally just found out today reddit is now only indexable by google. They have paid partnerships. So that specific feature (which I also make heavy use of) will continue to work but not on duck duck go or other engines. I’m gonna start appending lemmy instead of reddit and maybe just ditch google altogether. Search results have been pretty bad all round for quite a while.
Oh what?! Oh my gosh, these are terrible news. For all not in the loop, here is an Article.
I am really disappointed by this. This is just such a bad monopolistic practice that I’m wondering how in their right mind anyone from Reddit decided this was a good deal to make. On the other hand, it is Reddit, so what did I expect :/
You can actually search Lemmy by adding your instance (or a big instance)
For example:
site:lemmy.ca framework 13Awesome, thanks for informing me and others!
The problem with Lemmy is that deleted posts will nuke all of the comments as well.
At least with Reddit, even if the post was deleted you could still get the answer by going through the comments.
I agree.
That is a feature from Reddit that I miss as well. There were also 3rd party backups of Reddit, so even if communities, posts, or comments were deleted, you would be able to see what was removed.
From Reddit itself, just the large userbase. It meant that even niche interests had lively and active communities.
From Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES): the ability to resize images just by cliking and dragging, the ability to tag users in custom ways so you can tell at a glance if they’re someone who past-you thought was an idiot, and endless scrolling.
What I don’t miss: everything else. Comparing the two userbases, Reddit is far more right-wing on average than Lemmy is. It’s nice not having to deal with so many garbage takes here.
I miss the small niche communities.
I don’t miss the larger communities.
I miss the niche communities that I followed on reddit. There was a lot of sharing and discussion of knowledge there and I learned a lot about my hobbies. I feel more alone in my hobbies and interests now, I have no one to talk about them here.
On the general content side, I’m fine with Lemmy, there’s a lot less to scroll through and I spend a lot less time without feeling like I’m missing out, which is not a bad thing for me. I still can get my jokes, cats and memes in a smaller dose with a lot less reposting than reddit had. Another thing I like about lemmy is that I can interact with the more general content (like right now) without being the billionth comment that no one is going to read anyway
Sports subreddits were much more popular there than here.
Yea. Like I want to talk about baseball. There’s like three people here that have a similar interest and there are all following different teams
All you need to know, is that Jose Rameriez is a baseball god, and Tim Anderson is a little bitch!
GO GUARDS!
Oh yea, well explain to me how Pete Rose was banned for gambling and Shohei Ohtani didn’t even receive a reprimand.
It wasn’t him, it was the one armed man!
Cuz Dodgers and Yankees always get a pass.
Ever since MLB realized they could make a metric shit ton of cash by allowing online gambling sites to advertise in their ballparks?
Shoeless Joe and Pete Rose should be FUMING right now.
Fuck the Guards. We just took two out of three against them! Woooooooo, GO PADRES.
BOOOOOOOOO!!! Boo I say!
Hey, I’m amazed we even won that series. The Friars are sketchy at best and the Guards have been on a roll for awhile.
Hell yeah we have!!! We’re gonna win the world series…once in my lifetime…
I agree. Go Guards!
I’m not a militant fan at all. The Padres are my main team, but I have no problem respecting other talent and giving credit where credit is due. The Dodgers are my mortal money, but even I can admit they got some rock solid talent on that team.
I do miss r/padres…
Call me crazy, but I feel like I’m in an even smaller echo chamber.
Some super active communities about photography, which is one of my hobbys.
I miss niche communities. I enjoy games like Shadowrun, Blood on the Clocktower and video games where there’s a lot of meta discussion (e.g. Payday 2 back in the day). There are some less specific similar communities on Lemmy, but they just don’t hit the same. When I’m thinking of TTRPGs, I’m thinking gritty cyberpunk with a bucket of D6s, but the rpg communities on here are very D&D and Pathfinder focused.
I know the general response to this is “well you should start the community and generate the content”. But the issue is that, frankly, I’m not interested in that. Before Lemmy, rif was just the app I used to scroll mindlessly when I was bored at work. Lemmy is the replacement to that, even if it’s missing some of the specific content I’d want it to have.
This is whats keeping me from full-committing to Lemmy. I get most of my news from other sources, and I’m not a Linux user or IT specalist, so theres really not much content here for me. The communities on Reddit I was most involved in were mostly for specific games or niche areas within gaming like VR, or for acedemic topics and discussions like history. Here on Lemmy, theres is effectively none of that aside from some history memes largely reposted from Reddit by a few very dedicated users (although thank you to those users). Even really large games like Dota, and CS, both of which lend themselves well to sharing content, discussion, and general lifestyle adoption of the game have nothing here on Lemmy, nonetheless single-player games like Half-Life.
The few things that I’m into and their related subs. Those communities here are next to nothing, and even when I post, there is no engagement. There’s just no one there.
I do not miss the cesspool of comments and the shitty moderation. I’m sure it’s only gotten so much worse since I’ve left.
