• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    50·
    8 months ago

    Video game specific communities. Like any random game that is even semi-popular has an active sub on Reddit. Even the most popular games in the entire world rn don’t have much activity, if they even have communities, on Lemmy.

    I would rather argue the motivations of a souls boss than politics or what the best linux distro is 😮‍💨.

  • RyanDownyJr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    8 months ago

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

    • invertedspear@lemm.ee
      15·
      8 months ago

      Active communities, period.

      Reddit started out without subreddits. Eventually grew too big for that so split into topical channels. Then the channel would get too big and a niche would subdivide out. When Lemmy started, or more so when there was the first big exodus from Reddit, all of that was recreated, but without the users. So we have a ton of dead communities that really need to be rolled up and cleaned up.

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          8 months ago

          they also allows too mmuch astroturfing that seems to digress from the discussion.

      • pdxfed@lemmy.world
        4·
        8 months ago

        I just had my first thread that I came across today, after nearly 2 years here, that was collaboratively funny, creative, diverse and made me remember what lots of talent in a thread can do. Not just anti-establishment/political circle jerking, or a few tech categories that get enough visibility to get participation.

        It was a /mildlyinteresting thread about giraffes being more likely to be struck by lightning. It immediately made me feel like I was finallly home again after 2 years and looking forward to more and more growth in Lemmy and the fediverse.

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
    25·
    8 months ago

    Active communities for niche topics, like His Dark Materials, or Would You Rather, and the poll feature, which I used extensively. Yes, I know you can link to external platforms, but integrating it into the post was much nicer.

  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
    18·
    8 months ago

    A less specific demographic, which is a little ironic when referring to reddit. But lemmy is even more a subset of a subset of a subset of people than reddit is, and it gets a bit old at times.

    Politics everywhere, and most of it is just circlejerking over something trump is doing and everyone agreeing how terrible he / his supporters / his handlers / the broligarchs are. There isn’t much discourse to be had when everyone on here already agrees, and I don’t mean I miss right wing voices. Just that I don’t need to talk about politics with people who think virtually exactly the same as me about these things. And I’m also not an american.

    Then there is an annoying flood of trans content, which is great that it has its place here, but for the most part doesn’t interest me beyond a general sentiment of support for people to live their life how they wish. I want more diversity in my feed.

    Not in necessarily in opinions but in topics

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      There isnt much discourse to be had when everyone on here already agrees, and I don’t mean I miss right wing voices. Just that I dont need to talk about politics with people who think virtually exactly the same as me about these things.

      Yes. There’s little or no novelty here. I’m not surprised by something new or interesting. I get a lot of nostalgia hits because we’ve all experienced similar things.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        those commnets almost always bots, i dont entertain them, when i do sometimes i report them because they were obvious spamming, like the bots they were.

  • vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    17·
    8 months ago

    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.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      It’s the worst thing about Lemmy and all it really does is make me more hesitant to squander potential friends by acting shitty, and less liable to spend hours chatting.

      • vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        10·
        8 months ago

        I could go on a sub like NoStupidQuestions or AskElectricans, etc where someone would ask a question about some super obscure topic I happen to be knowledgeable on. I could write a long, in-depth response which would then get dozens of responses and further questions. I’d be engaged in the same conversation about this topic or that for days.

        Here, it feels like 99% of conversations are about IT/programming, which is not my field, or about American politics.

      • blarghly@lemmy.world
        21·
        8 months ago

        Gift and a curse. Gift when some random person has a hilarious, crazy story. Curse because now it is infected with average people who are extremely materialistic, closed minded, and enchained by limiting self beliefs. So it quickly becomes a cesspool of hate, depression, and crab bucketing.

        • Lemminary@lemmy.world
          1·
          8 months ago

          Yup! I don’t miss the latter half at all. There’s still plenty of stupid walking around Lemmy but it’s manageable.

  • markovs_gun@lemmy.world
    15·
    8 months ago

    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