as a reddit refugee i mostly use lemmy, but sometimes i go back by a lack of alternative to some subreddit, which one you feel there is a need ?

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    OP, please don’t go making empty ghost communities based on the feedback here. That would be worse than no community at all. Communities should be created by topic enthusiasts.

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      oh i feel this so hard. i hope the mods are collating their best answers and saving the info to somehow bring over here.

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        You should send the mods a mail to see if they have any Lemmy plans. It’s worth it just to know. Sometimes they don’t have a plan but they do know of a good alt community for you to try out

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          I believe you can just create your own Magazine (sub) if there isn’t currently one out there! Start that bad boy up!

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          that’s a great idea. they must know about the fediverse’s existence, but they may not know that Lemmy is actually viable.

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    There are enough communities, there just aren’t enough posts and comments.

    Most posts on the communities I see are just links with one or two comments.

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    Something I think is genuinely useful about Reddit that I don’t know if Lemmy has replicated yet is the whole genre of “The entire world is here, someone will recognize what you’re talking about” subs. What is this thing, what is this bug, tip of my tongue, tip of my joystick, ask historians, ask mechanics…I’m not sure we’ve established that brain trust here.

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    I miss some dedicated meme subreddits:

    • prequelmemes
    • sequelmemes
    • lotrmemes

    They were always good for a laugh.

    Oh! And highqualitygifs.

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    I’ll say it for everyone (and myself), NSFW communities. Reddit is still effectively king for that, at least for now.

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      There is a fair few out there, one main issue is that you can’t even get a list of nsfw communities without being logged in on the instances they’re created in.

      IIRC the only instance that patches that check out and is remotely discoverable because of it is lemmynsfw. Whatever communities other instances have are basically hidden to all but the select few who know about them / have an account there and goes to look them up.

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      I may be in the minority here, but I don’t miss the sexual NSFW content from reddit at all. I was getting tired of seeing OF accounts posting semi-flirtatious things in completely unrelated subs in order to garner attention.

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      It was totally new to me that people use Reddit for porn. Actually, I only realised that because they were complaining about the supposed lack of these communities on Lemmy. So, you aren’t really speaking for everyone…

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    Programming Languages and Compilers. To be clear: The former exists on programming.dev, but there’s a serious lack of activity.

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    Lovecraft and Cthulhu Mythos

    Creepypasta

    SCP

    Web Novels

    Light Novels translation

    Anime and Manga

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    I’m into conspiracies and occultism, while Reddit wasn’t perfect in that regard, I would enjoy either one having a bigger presence

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      If we are going to have one from occultism, we’re going to need one for lemmy drama because occultism drama is the tastier of all.

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      The whole Grusch saga has reinvigorated my interest in UFO nonsense, so I’ve been posting to !UFOs@lemmy.world but there’s really not much discussion there yet. Happy to take my posting somewhere there would be if you know of one! I loved conspiracy stuff years back as well. The goofier, the better. “Why yes, I would like to read about the family bigfoot started with a hiker on vacation. Surprised it took you so long to ask.”

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    Intellectually, I think lemmy already has a good grasp on topics…but I do miss the daily video content of r/crazyfuckingvideos, r/publicfreakout, and r/idiotsincars.