More users to accommodate more active niche communities
Yeah, there’s a few subs that I miss — particularly the ones for my city and my state — but r/twobestfriendsplay is top of the list. It was by far the sub that I most enjoyed interacting with since I joined years ago. Lots of power users who I’d immediately recognize by pfp.
The actual group that it’s named after broke up a decade ago — they’ve been disbanded longer than they were a thing — but it was still loosely connected to a couple of the guys’ ongoing careers, particularly two of them who host a podcast and stream separately. More importantly, it was a hub for discussion on games, movies, shows, comics, whatever, niche or popular, even if the relevance to the group was tenuous; the mods tried to block some topics but lost the battle on vtubers after the guys had Mori Calliope on the podcast, lol. I imagine it’s even more lifted now that one of them streams with several vtubers.
tl;dr yeah I really miss some niche communities I’d been subbed to for years.
Truthfully, Lemmy doesn’t even have enough users for some mainstream interests, like sports. Lemmy leans very tech and selects for a certain type of user. But I’m sure plenty of people here are happy to have a place without daily NFL and NBA news.
If it means anything, I know at least I don’t participate in a lot of stuff because of AI
Any amount of positivity and fun. Lemmy users just feel so miserable and argumentative.
I mean sign of the times but damn.
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I miss being able to make sarcastic comments without someone telling me I’m the sole reason the world went to shit.
more diversity. currently lemmy predominantly has politics, tech, and memes. Anything else is a little rough around the edges or nonexistent
Particularly, I was a huge fan of the Tales from X-style subreddits. It was entertaining to be able to go into them, read some stories about it and see others responses, even if some of them you could totally tell weren’t actually real. there have been communities made for some of the topics, but they’re dead, and unfortunately, those types of communities aren’t really communities that you can do too much with yourself unless you’re actively in that same field.
More users in smaller niche communities. Lemmy has less users in general, so smaller niche communities are practically non-existent here.
I don’t can enough to post enough in there canning, but I’m hoping it’s just well, we’re all waiting for fall and the harvests!
content
Active communities. Some of the comms for my interests technically exist, in that they get one post every third month that gets 2 upvotes. Despite everything, these communities are still thriving on Reddit. Yet for whatever reason, any attempt to replicate them here fails. Smh
Niche communities.
The actual Apollo app that’s still being developed by community volunteers. That’s all though, can’t think of anything else.
I mean sure, Lemmy has less content and interaction but that means (for me) that the content that’s shown has more value. Reddit had (and still has) lots of content but more often than not it is the same jokes, memes and questions daily.
a more active and bigger community
More niche communities that I don’t have to manage to enjoy. TBF Reddit is pretty bad as a forum too. Car audio for example or really anything where the majority of the discourse is newbies wanting help gets drowned out by people repping popular brands, showing off pie in the sky builds that wouldn’t sound good, or arguing about whether capacitors do anything.
isn’t that mostly a moderation problem?
Not really imo, it’s mostly because traditional forums “bump” posts back up to the top. That promotes back and forth that’s required in order to help people diagnose a problem to the actual solution, and as a result of not having a bump prioritization feature, a lot of people only ever speak once in the comments.
90% of the answers in here boil down to more users.
active users specifically
Searching my username + lemmy in the search bar equals every instance except my own for +90% of searches :p
I would say the old.reddit interface but lemmy actually has that. :)
Had no idea !
I did not know about this, thanks !
Larger active sports communities. There’s a subreddit for every sport you want to follow, and even for each team. So you can get detailed news specifically for your team, go to game threads for real time discussion for any live game and even go lurk your rival team’s subreddit to enjoy all the complaining after your team beats them. All of that only works with a large active user base and Lemmy just isn’t there yet.
More apolitical communities
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