Just curious. I miss mainly language stuff, some video game communities (like RoN, KCD) and some local communities like for Arabs or Saudis (tbf those were always cesspits but I miss talking to other Arabs on Lemmy)

I’ll try to be the change I want to see. How about you?

    • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMEnglish
      3·
      16 hours ago

      All arab related communities are modded by the same person, panarab and he’s a PTB, so… (Also an asshole in general so i’d steer clear)

      I think of running a saudi/arab community here on lemmy but i think it may be too tiring, especially since i’m one of the more westernized arabs (despite not living in the west lol)

  • Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    Crazyfuckingvideos (especially since I was one of the first posters there), Reeftank, Bookcirclejerk, Playboicarti, Gardening, Photography

  • Gloomy@mander.xyzEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    r/collapse

    Full of the most pessimistic possible interpretation of climate change events and news possible.

    It’s here too, but quite dead.

    • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I feel like it’s quite common for smaller countries to be honest. What is the stance of the subreddit mods about promoting it? I’ve had bad experiences in the past about trying to promote Lemmy on geodefault subs.

      • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        I wouldn’t know, as I haven’t logged in to Reddit since 2023.

        I think I may have posted something about it around July when the API changes were announced, but that was probably too early for anyone to care.

  • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    • Niche committees for random movies, TV shows, games, or whatever form of entertainment. It was pretty cool having communities for The Crow, Hellraiser, iZombie, Xena, Due South (who here even knows Due South?) and basically just whatever the hell you can think of. Even specific bands, to throw music into the entertainment mix.

    • Fashion based communities like Alt Fashion, Goth Fashion etc. I think communities like that would thrive here because NSFW is kept pretty much separate from most instances, so it would help keep away the porn brain commenters and OnlyFans bots. Also things like hair and skincare style communities. You could find really niche shit like even communities for advice specific to hooded eyes.

    • Feminist slanted communities with active discussion. There are a couple of communities where probably the moderators are keeping the lights on by posting articles occasionally but beyond that, they’re ghost towns. I’m honestly surprised that more people from these sorts of online communities haven’t come here yet because Reddit in general likes to “both sides” this kind of conversation. While it seems generally more acceptable here to get off the fucking fence and walk around on the left hand side.

    • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Fashion

      !malefashionadvice@lemmy.world is so quiet that I wouldn’t even try more niche style.

      skincare

      Similar for !skincareaddiction@sh.itjust.works

      Niche committees for random movies, TV shows, games, or whatever form of entertainment

      Besides the general ones like !showsandmovies@lemm.ee and !movies@lemm.ee, there are a few like !severance@lemmy.world . We keep a pinned post at the top of !showsandmovies@lemm.ee , feel free to have a look.

      • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        Fashion

        Honestly, I think there’s two big barriers to this (same goes for the NSFW side of things, if I may say). No posting to your own profile and from what I can tell, a very inconsistent (or non-existent) system of being able to follow specific users. Reddit is much better equipped for people who are going to be posting pictures of themselves and maybe promoting themselves and gaining a following.

        But I think also the other problem that also applies to things like skincare / health and niche entertainment communities is just that there’s not enough users around yet to make more niche subjects active. That I understand and can only hope changes over time.

        We keep a pinned post at the top of !showsandmovies@lemm.ee

        Thanks, I have checked out that thread before. Seems to be a good place to check for any new specific communities that pop up or that I haven’t thought of. I think I need to add that community to my favourites and visit it more often because it seems like the best central place for now. Although of course I’m not watching everything as it comes out, so can’t promise I’ll be commenting on everything.

  • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyzEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    There was a sub i think called r/daily3d that offered a daily prompt for users to create in 3d modeling software like blender. It became inactive years ago when the moderator who offered the prompts stepped down and set up a bot to come up with it instead. It was never huge, usually 10 entries a day at its peak, but that was a fun sub to check in on every so often. Some users were really good, and before the bot took over, the mod offered prompts that encouraged user interpretation and creativity.

  • Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    Tbf, most I use especially since I started ignoring news and politics… Chinese, Buddhism, art, yoga, poetry etc. Local city subreddit. Everything “humanities” is sparsely populated here even though I try my best to get the ball rolling. I still use reddit for some of this.

  • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
    8·
    2 days ago

    None of the Japanese communities actually migrated over (for those living here, such as the finance one), which is sad. I’m still hoping they eventually do. Until then, unless law and taxes become much easier (try doing legalese in your non-native language that has thousands of characters and tons of Jargon), I still go there for that. Same with ALTTPR, unless it has some community I haven’t seen yet.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    1 day ago

    I miss r/oura as I could dunk on oura for enshittification. We all could. And then we could collectively decide what else to get.

    I think there was an r/redhat too, but that was full of “how do I quit vi” and left no room for debating what should replace Systemd (I vote inittab but there was a minimalist just-enough-lennart crew that made a good argument for a stepdown so people could get some distance and see the pain objectively and get over the sunk-cost).

    I like r/pics but I was permabanned for - as far as I can tell - an “and my ax” comment.

    That’s about it.

    • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      C’est tragique. I never spent much around polandball, compball or that stuff but it was kinda nice seeing them every once in a while (even if i didn’t get them lmao) but the fact there is no lego community is insane.

      • K4mpfie@feddit.org
        3·
        2 days ago

        The Polandball community on Reddit is really focused on the creators I don’t see them moving anywhere soon :(

        There actually is a lego community !Lego@lemmy.world but it’s very slow with roughly 1 post per week. Certainly doesn’t scratch the itch

  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    There are some great communities of obsessive hobbyists here like !Selfhosted@lemmy.world, and if you throw a brick in any direction you’ll hit two Linux nerds, but reddit has /r/sysadmin and other infosec groups that have large numbers of industry professionals - and no amount of enthusiasm can substitute for real-world experience. I miss the conversation from people who spend time writing system security plans, reading NIST documentation for guidance, thinking about remote management for networks that support thousands of end users, and who have to actually deal with the cybersecurity incidents that get reported in the news.

    • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      You can contact L3s, the mod of !sysadmin@lemmy.world and ask to become a mod since the rest are completely inactive. Though i don’t know how you’d be able to consistently post nor the content that was on there, since i’m not a sysadmin :)

      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        You can’t produce an actual community by wanting it, or by forcing it. Only time, and the effort of many people, can bring it into existence. It was a long time before reddit attracted professional communities. It will be a long time before it happens here, if ever.

        • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Of course, but i was talking about you helping it be more active. Personally there were two pretty inactive communities i liked, that i had helped revive. It wasn’t just me of course and it was hard but it’s possible. Just a thought though.