Asklemmy

Lemmy currently lacks the userbase for niche, specific communities, or subregional communities

I really miss r/askhistorians

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.

Lots of individual game subs

I feell like that the problem is just discovery

One that I miss is "r/sex" for discussions and support about sex.

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.

r/HumansBeingBros is what I miss a lot... or am I missing something...

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.

I look at it as Lemmy isn't large enough to support smaller communities unless they come here as is.

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

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

personally i'm missing all the horror content. there's a nosleep replacement here that's gaining traction but stuff like /r/wtf, /r/oddlyterrifying, /r/creepywikipedia etc are sorely missed right now

Something I think is genuinely useful about Reddit that I don't know if Lemmy has replicated yet is the whole genre of "The entire world is here, someone will recognize what you're talking about" subs. What is this thing, what is this bug, tip of my tongue, tip of my joystick, ask historians, ask mechanics...I'm not sure we've established that brain trust here.

I miss some dedicated meme subreddits:

• prequelmemes
• sequelmemes
• lotrmemes

They were always good for a laugh.

Oh! And highqualitygifs.

Lemmy drama, I want to gossip about other communities and read people fighting for stupid shit.

r/frogs and r/orphancrushingmachine

For me economics, finance, and investing subs are the ones that I got back for. Other than that most of the subs that I liked are mostly here

I really miss r/hfy (Humanity, Fuck Yeah!) A sub which writes about humans doing awesome shit in space etc.

Intellectually, I think lemmy already has a good grasp on topics...but I do miss the daily video content of r/crazyfuckingvideos, r/publicfreakout, and r/idiotsincars.

Lovecraft and Cthulhu Mythos

Creepypasta

SCP

Web Novels

Light Novels translation

Anime and Manga

An easier way to link communities. It was so simple on reddit just typing r/sub but here it's more complicated

Someone did make goblincore, but it’s still mostly empty and I’m not talented enough to contribute lol

I loved looking through all the mossy green nature pics, tiny ecoscapes, mushrooms, frogs, and forest-witch style craftsmanship from people much more creative than myself

I miss Warhammer 40k lore and memes.

Just from the top of my head r/BoneAppleTea and r/AmITheAsshole

I think I've found most of the communities here that I subscribed to when I left reddit. There are a couple I wish were here or more active.

Daddit was a great group of dads that were supportive and welcoming where we could vent, share memes, and just have general discussions about being a dad. They were really welcoming of moms too, as there's not always a dad present for the kids.

I'm into conspiracies and occultism, while Reddit wasn't perfect in that regard, I would enjoy either one having a bigger presence

Dog stuff. I haven't found any dog communities and I weirdly miss reading about dog grooming.

I'm not sure but, a community for posting scientific articles and discuss about it.

If anyone is missing curly hair content, I have a community at !curlyhair@lemmy.world.

“r/matt”

As a Matt, r/matt was a community for us Matt’s to do what us Matt’s do. I’m a little “homeless” here on Lemmy, but I get by.

The average person won't jump through these hoops just trying to subscribe to a community. I can clearly see them on a list, but still not able to join a bunch from my instance (lemm.ee). Are they too small? Nobody from my instance on them? Whatever.

Parenting communities. The culture can be very hit or miss, but that might apply to most communities. I just want somewhere to commiserate with others without any judgment or the usual dramatic bullshit.