Active niche communities

I miss reddit from 10 years ago.

Lemmy is nice.

Active posts that aren't about linux or politics.

The amount of content was nice from reddit. Eventually, I'm sure this platform will get there.

Active communities that aren't about Linux

Content, comments

r/AskHistorians

Really just the quantity of people, especially on ask subs. Lemmy just feels incredibly empty. And the breadth of topics people discuss here is extremely small.

r/electricians mostly

I'm an industrial electrician and I don't know a single soul in my life outside of my career who I can shoot the shit about electrical systems. Sometimes I just want to nerd out about it, or discuss UL and NEC codes, or sometimes just removed about old crap from decades ago you have to work on haha

I miss... the idea of it.

Interaction on posts that have been up for more than 8 hours

Askhistorians and other academic subreddits, along with specific fan communities. Lemmy is just too small to support a good community for a smaller video game, for example. That's pretty much it though I was surprised at how little I missed reddit after switching

The breadth of the content

Diversity. People on R were less uniform.

Maybe because they were more.

When there was only one allowed opinion in a sub, then you could often find another sub with the same topics allowed, but the only one allowed opinion was another one.

Larger population of users = more content and more communities

The only communities that I still regularly browse on Reddit are the regional communities for the place I live currently and places I've lived previously. Those seem to have little to no activity around here. I no longer participate in them on Reddit, only lurk.

Specific TV show episode threads. I loved reading what people thought, things I'd missed, etc.

The app - Baconreader was so smooth. I'm getting used to the fediverse one, but there are still a lot of decisions by the devs that I hate.

The sheer amount of queer porn - it wasn't even enough because my tastes are.... Varying. But the feed of porn on fediverse is weak as fuck, with a lot of it being really boring and aimed at boring people who are not me (cishet men). I'm confident this will eventually get remedied, but it DID also take like a decade for even Reddit to get good porn, with its own ups and downs.

That being said, there's still so much more to love on fediverse that I don't need to look back to Reddit for. It feels like going from high school to a really big, really liberal college (Reddit->fediverse). I can openly do so much stuff, like say fuck nazis, which I regularly do, and very much mean. I can even say stuff like "the only good nazi..." and people will know what I'm talking about AND agree with, thank fuck. It's just a much more grown up place here, and I'm much more comfortable being closer to being able to speak my mind without having to censor myself, and I've noticed this in other people, too, that there's far less conformity to respectability politics, and people actually say what they think, regardless of how bizarre or unhinged it is, I truly love that.

The subreddits for individual sports teams, posting comments in game threads with a hundred other fans of your team from around the world.

Working mobile apps. My Jerboa mobile app for Lemmy works great, but if they hadn't have broken all the mobile apps and acted like such shitheads, I wouldn't even be here :)

The number of users, you can get answers to anything there.

The Colorado avalanche subreddit having more than 2 people

r/simpleliving or, more exactly, a more active version of it since the community is there: !simpleliving@lemm.ee. And more people participating in the !journaling@sh.itjust.works community too but hopefully we're slowly getting there.

A balance between communities. There are communities that are very active and fill my feed. Although those community are OK, I am much more interested in some smaller and niche communities. Those get lost in the feed.

r/notinteresting being everything but not interesting

AskHistorians

Hide on vote was pretty nice. I used rif before they closed 3rd party apps, and I came to Lemmy

I don't miss anything from reddit, I can still go there if I want. If anything, lemmy still feels underpopulated if I only browse the stuff I'm subscribed to.

A lot of good people need to make the switch.

a good solid baseball community, and a sportbook community.

Activity that isn't political shit.

Convenience of blocking. Voyager is absolute ass in this regard.

Being able to conveniently filter out entire subreddits. (Actually I say that but I did have multiple cases where the block list just straight up stopped working.)

The echo chamber also feels way stronger here. It's tiring. Especially the ACAB wank, which hasn't improved with the rise of Nazi America.

I still browse and almost caught myself commenting recently. I quickly backspaced and exited out and came over here where I feel safe posting comments and interacting.

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Subs/communities for actively watched shows. I find myself needing to browser redlib for insights on, most recently, the white lotus and the last of us