I personally can’t wait to see communities like r/hiphopheads, r/internetisbeautiful, r/listentothis, r/battlestations… join lemmy and become as active as they are on reddit. what are some of y’all fav?

  • dgrabla
    48·
    1 year ago

    I’m surprised nobody mentioned my absolute fav /r/askhistorians

    • sma3in@lemmy.worldOP
      17·
      1 year ago

      yes add to the list: r/musicmaking, r/headphones, r/audiophiles, r/indieheads, r/WeAreTheMusicMakers, r/drumkits, r/bandcamp, r/vintageobsecura and I’ll be the happiest kid lurking around here

    • j_roby@slrpnk.net
      5·
      1 year ago

      There’s 2 smaller instances specifically for musicians. I would keep an eye on their communities.

      lemmy.studio

      waveform.social

      Both have an Ableton /c, but not much content yet

    • Echoes in May
      1·
      1 year ago

      I completely agree. It makes sense though that the first communities are mostly tech-oriented, since the first users who migrated to lemmy was probably tech-oriented.

  • nightscout@lemmy.world
    321·
    1 year ago

    Health-related communities, particularly those for specific medical conditions. Those are the communities that really become a lifeline for people, help them through diagnoses or just difficult times, and can serve as an excellent resource. I was active on r/diabetes_t1 on Reddit and am trying to get a community started here on Lenny.world (!T1diabetes).

    • gooddaytodayhere@vlemmy.net
      3·
      1 year ago

      Agreed. I found an asthma one so I’m trying to be active there every day. I need to find endometriosis, bunions, gastric surgery 😂. I’m a total crock health wise and these chats help

    • Nippledippers7@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yes! Also kinda related, I liked r/SocialAnxiety and r/Dyslexia. It’s a place where we can go and help/encourage eachother.

    • Lorax@lemmy.ca
      1·
      1 year ago

      Second this! It was great hearing the different treatments people tried, doctor recommendations… having that safe space to feel sorry for oneself about the side effects or symptoms. I could see it happening here when Lemmy grows in numbers a bit.

  • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
    356·
    1 year ago

    I miss women centric subs, especially thes ones with a mix of posts that foster discussion, memes, and support such as witchesvspatriarchy

    Best of redditor updates because I want my stories lol

    Specific subs for shows because I like reading episode discussions, often someone catches something I missed that gives more context or they catch clues and foreshadowing. Theories too. Or just seeing if anyone else had same thoughts I did! I think it will be a long time before lemmy is big enough to be close to that, and will probably only be newer shows.

    Also just the sheer volume of content produced every day. I’ll hold strong though and not give reddit any traffic. Reddit was fantastic as a lurker, posting most anywhere large felt like whispering into a void. Lemmy is great for actually participating, I think it will be a long time yet until it’s as fun for lurking.

    • plum@lemmy.ca
      9·
      1 year ago

      Same here - I hope more female-oriented communities get going. WitchesVsPatriarchy, TrollXChromosomes, and all the chaos of the Netflix Cinematic Universe reality shows were a blast on Reddit.

      I have found !witchymemes@lemmy.world so far!

      • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        Thank you that is a great start! I have quite a few saved memes to start contributing as well. It doesn’t seem quite the same so I hope we have something else soon. I would be a terrible mod and still confused by most of this fediverse thing otherwise I would make what I want to see.

    • HSL@wayfarershaven.eu
      2·
      1 year ago

      You aren’t the first to mention the women-central communities. I did start !heronebag@wayfarershaven.eu but I’m not sure what else to start and even if I’m the right person to mod it - it would probably need a team. Any ideas or suggestions? What kind of community would you like to visit?

  • blazarious@mylem.me
    22·
    1 year ago

    Slightly related: someone needs to organize a celebrity AMA on Lemmy to let people know that there’s a new sheriff in town (or something like that).

  • j_roby@slrpnk.net
    19·
    1 year ago

    Also, just to throw this out there for anyone who isn’t aware; some fine folks have made a site where you can search for communities across all instances. Check it out!

    browse.feddit.de

  • Elkaki123@vlemmy.net
    18·
    1 year ago

    r/writtingprompts by far my favorite community of all time and I hope it makes a resurgence

    Other ones would be r/the10thdentist, r/nottheonion and r/askhistorians (they probably will never join since they have their own website to fall back own if it all goest to shit)

    Lastly r/manga, I said this one as separate because I have seen a few but the community is not there yet, especially lacking features like what are you reading this month and at MOST having 15 subscribers

    • OceanSoap
      21·
      1 year ago

      I think there’s already a couple writing prompts instances, you can search for them. They popped up when I searched for general writing instances to follow.

  • Saplith@discuss.divergentparenting.space
    14·
    1 year ago

    I wish there there were more parenting comms. You have a few low activity general parenting comms and a surprising amount of healthy dad comms (go dads!), but you don’t have the break outs. I guess I’ll shill my instance where I’m hoping more parents will pop up to

    There are some more, but those are the ages I have kids in lol.

    • Porcupine@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      The community I miss the most by far is my bumper group. General parenting communities are great, but I loved checking in with my fellow Feb 2023 parents during a middle of the night feed.

      • Saplith@discuss.divergentparenting.space
        1·
        1 year ago

        Ah man, the bumper groups. I think we’d need a whole instance just dedicated to that. Actually can you even make communities private?

        My kid is old enough that I’ve faded from the bump groups, but they were a lifeline and godsend when I had a newborn.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
    142·
    1 year ago

    The women’s communities. Everything from trollx to girlgamers to tallgirls

    I also miss femdomcommunity because it’s one of the few sensible kink communities on the internet

  • Anonymoose@infosec.pub
    12·
    1 year ago

    Yes, I absolutely loved listentothis. I think it was sort of losing user interaction towards the end but it was so great to comb through previous years to find great music.

    We should definitely get another one up and running!

    I’ll really miss the location specific subreddits, those were super useful when travelling to find stuff only local redditors knew about. It helped get you off the beaten path.

    • fuck reddit
      9·
      1 year ago

      Yes! Those are the only way I’ve been able to get real-time info!

    • socsa
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yup. The only thing I am still doing on Reddit is following the Ukraine threads. So far the only discussions I’ve found on Lemmy have been about 90% Tankie brain rot.

  • Kaymorak@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 year ago

    I just want to see enough folks from some of the gaming communities move over: (Most of these have small communities already, I just want growth!)

    2007scape for the memes

    Satisfactory for the incredible creativity

    Nomanssky for the same reason ^

    Forzahorizon for the weekly challenge discussions and screenshots

    FFXIV for the community ‘vibe’

    Really any game with a fun online community, these are just a few of the ones I enjoy.