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I, being someone who works with computers, have had some luck with most of my favorite subs being here already.

Despite that, some of my hobby ones still aren't here. NFL exists, but it's the same as nothing so far. Soccer I couldn't find at first, maybe today it already does? Also, no sign of fantasy football.

I also followed a bunch of History subs, but looks like most people in Lemmy only care about science and technology.

Tell us, what is missing for you?

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[–] Cloak@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Welcome everyone! Just as a PSA, here's a cross instance community explorer: https://browse.feddit.de/

[–] Pencilnoob@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I'm trying to be the change I want to see in the world https://lemmy.ml/c/hydrohomies

[–] cambionn@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

Most of my intrests are there and have some activity. Mainly the computerstuff and all. But others exist but aren't active. Take for example kpop, japanese music, horses, the elder scrolls. I wouldn't mind a community for western style RPGs as those are nearly the only games I play, with a few exeptions. General gaming ones seem too general for me, too little I care about.

I am trying to post here, but also don't want to spam a community with only my posts and make it looks like some kind of echo chamber. Feels like a delicate balance on the (nearly) inactive ones.

[–] Kierunkowy74@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago
[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yes but there's only 7 subscribers and I'm the only post :(

Then again it's a niche community about a fantasy series, I'm not surprised it doesn't have much going on yet.

c/WheelofTime

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[–] Scavenger_Solardaddy@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi all! I'm a Reddit refugee. This is my first comment here. I think I'm gonna lurk for a while and figure out how this works

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Try stuff out. Once it clicks, it's beautiful. Took me a moment, but now I'm mostly flying.

[–] roizor@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yes, actually. r/programmerhumor and r/anarchychess although on different instances are just like they were over at reddit.

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[–] em2@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Haven't seen anything CSGO or CSGO2 related yet. :(

[–] sunspider@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I've had to change my mindset; if I care about it existing, then I have to be the one who makes it. I've already created !smashbros@lemmy.world and I've become a mod for !ukcasual@lemmy.world.

[–] greenfish@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm missing witchesagainstthe patriarchy, mommit, and quilting. Everything else is here and I'm going to get more familiar this weekend and maybe start some groups

[–] JCSpark@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I'd love to see WitchesAgainstThePatriarchy again! Looks like communities on Lemmy.ca are fairly easy to create. I'll play around with it for a bit and see what it's like.

https://lemmy.ca/create_community

Yeah, I was quite disappointed to see that most, if not all, subreddits I follow had already shut down on Reddit. I mean, there's r/learnjapanese, r/fitness, r/iwanttolearn, r/piracy, r/nootropics... I could go on and on. I'm actually considering creating a Lemmy community in place of r/chineselanguage, since I see nothing of the sort has been created yet here. However I'm quite hesitant, since I don't really have the time nor interest in moderating a community, so... maybe I'll just wait for someone else to create it instead?

Nope, not yet, unfortunately. The majority of them either hasn't migrated here yet, or has a low amount of subscribers. Hopefully, more of them starts migrating here soon.

The ones I frequently browse that I doubt will migrate here are probably r/characterai, r/choiceofgames, and r/hostedgames.

I haven't seen r/gamedeals and r/livestreamfail here yet, but their amount of subscribers is pretty high compared to the other subreddit I've listed, so I think they'll probably migrate here soon.

But at least the country I live in has made a community here already. The amount of subscribers is still pretty low, but some people in there have been making a few posts and comments recently, so hopefully it gets more active soon.

[–] DevCat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Waiting for the Farming and Gardening subs to move over along with prepping.

[–] Panda@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I really want a csharp (C#) one. I know there is one but no one has posted there yet. XD And more game/Indie dev.

And something equivalent to the aww subreddit (does anyone know one?).

[–] thiccdiccnicc@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hate to say it but shitposts and circlejerks are a bit part of my reddit browsing to lighten the mood.

Otherwise, trash like terriblefacebookmemes and idiotsincars was great entertainment for some reason...

I don't know why I am like this.

Edit: to extend on this, seeing a post about some crazy shit play out and then reading everyone react to it is so much fun.

Still looking for alternatives for r/mechanicalkeyboards and r/spacex

[–] z2k_@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For r/soccer there’s !soccer@lemmy.ml although I’m hoping !football@lemmy.ml takes off instead.

It doesn’t look like there’s enough sports related content so something like !sports@beehaw.org might have more engagement.

[–] RomanRoy@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

+1 for football over soccer

Ideally, futebol >

[–] alphapro784@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

futebol is lyfeeeeeee

I'm hoping for some specific craft communities, but for now it makes sense to huddle together in !creative@beehaw.org. We do love to show off pics of all our projects though so I expect it won't be too long before it makes sense to start splitting that up.

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I created mine at /c/guitars , I'm not sure if the reddit community at large will join though. I'm hesitant to push it anywhere, it feels like sleazy self promotion. I just wanna talk about my hobbies with other hobbyists, and leave all the corporate greed back at reddit.

[–] limeaide@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm still waiting for an SBC Gaming/handheld community and more fashion communities.

I would start them myself but ive been super busy recently :(

[–] gagamaru@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

nahh. my favourite subs are the braindead shitposting ones so

[–] chovy@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm looking into Nostr protocol based apps like https://stacker.news and https://coracle.social

[–] yngkfr@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit refugee here - just created !modelmakers@lemmy.ml, one subreddit I will miss after leaving Reddit

[–] Moonguide@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not really. My most visited subs on reddit (fuck spez) were Rimworld, Zomboid, Hunt Showdown and various hobby/profession subs (graphic design, illustration, itap, photography). I'm fairly confident a UX/UI sub will pop up sooner rather than later considering how techie Lemmy's userbase seems to be. Iirc there is a gaming related comm on beehaw, but the odds those three games will be talked about is rather slim.

Edit: also, Swoleacceptance. Recently got back to the gym due to mental health. Was a gym rat years ago but life got in the way.

[–] Senseibull@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Upvoted for the β€œfuck spez”

[–] dogmuffins@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Not really. It's incredibly frustrating and I've def lost some faith in humanity.

I thought /r/selfhosted would be ready to jump but everyone is like "but there's no users on lemmy" and "you'll split the community" and "we're going to go dark for two days - that will teach them!"

Consequently there's been no support for any single refuge.

Additionally people have set up several communities here with similar names in the past but now mods aren't responding so it's all a bit of a mess.

[–] RogerFGint@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish there was something like AskHistorians but I highly doubt I'll ever find something that good without a solid moderation team and very strict rules. Feels like it will either be Reddit (and fuck that to be honest) or nothing.

I still can go through rabbit holes on Wikipedia at least so there's that.

[–] thiccdiccnicc@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't think about how sad it will be to lose askhistorians 😞

[–] rubythulhu@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

LGBTQ+ support spaces. Lemmy has some, but not enough.

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