More “curated” communities (like CuratedTumblr) that have higher submission standards. One of my biggest gripes with Lemmy in recent months is the amount of low effort “updoots to the left” memes and commonly reposted material.
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JapanFinance, RideItJapan, JapanLife/JapanResidents – the problem is, without the knowledge of people who have lived here for a long time, it’s not that useful if created. The vast amount of experience of people with starting a business, dealing with visa stuff, dealing with legal stuff, etc. is what makes those reddit communities valuable. Some of us tried to get people to move, some created similar communities, but people didn’t really move.
Communities focused on trolling, griefing, or bullying would be nice 🙂
You can find reddit between the toilets and the manure store.
Communities related to my local city. On Reddit it’s how I found out about some events and local issues.
The main thing I miss from reddit is communities for specific games. It was nice that, whenever I started playing some game, there would be a subreddit for it where I could get advise and see what other people were doing with the game. There are very few on Lemmy. It’s just too snall for that.
Ooh yeah I learned so much from the Pokémon scarlet violet subreddit.
A bit clichê, but all of them
…well… maybe not all of them…
People really need to start posting more. You can do scheduled posts so it’s easy work
Solarpunk and anything that is systems-minded and constructive.
I used to like reading the medium - long stories on the malicious complience subreddit. !maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world just never really took off here.
I’d like to see at least one of the music theory communities take off. The subreddit had a lot going for it, but it was extremely toxic in some ways. I’d like to see a nicer version of it here.
Niche interests. Unfortunately Lemmy doesn’t have enough of a population to get enough people/content for specific niches. Some things I specifically followed on Reddit were: fight stick controllers, Street Fighter 6, Wildrift game, dad/parenting communities, SBC gaming. On Lemmy there either isn’t any activity at all for these, or too little to have regular content.
TBH I think it needs more mods/participants in existing communities before it starts sharding into more.
In other words, it’s the same problem I observe in many software dev communities: instead of building a new wheel, it’d be better to contribute to existing ones (and facilitate that discovery for others).
And, on that note, I think Lemmy needs better default algorithms to surface them.
I agree. I mod 3 and the reality is you’ve got to create the content. Some mods don’t do that
I did that in the journaling community I mod. During 6 months or so I posted almost daily, then weekly content. I had to put it on hold for the last few months. But I had very little feedback all that time. After I put in on hold, at first there was no activity going on at all. Then, a few posts were created, and other members commented. There is still not much going on but it was nice to see nonetheless. Hope to see more :)
The real odd thing for me is that we gained a lot of new members (when I relaunched the community, there was probably less than 200 members, we’re more than 900 today), and still almost no one is posting. Not sure why.
I think on reddit they said that a vast majority of content “posts” is made by a very small amount of users. I think it was less than 5% made 90% or something like that. I’m seeing the same dynamic on Lemmy/Piefed/ect…
When it comes down to it, power users are still a thing and getting them onboard on a platform helps quite a bit.
Yes, I think you’re right.
I generally don’t miss Reddit, but I do miss all the art subs. All the “imaginary” subs. ImaginaryBattlefields. ImaginaryCastles. Etc etc. 80s fantasy art subs. I like having a fair amount of art in my feeds as I scroll and I don’t really get that with Lemmy. I am too lazy and distracted to create and moderate these subs myself.
It’s doing well but I would love to see more videos without the need for YouTube.
