Lately I've been having to go back to Reddit to look at the gloryhammer and Dyson sphere program subs. The 2nd one has been more used after the recent update, just wish I could load any mods
True, but I was still curious about what communities get mentioned here. And also, without communities catering to different users' interests, there will be no engagement.
All the niche communities exist it’s just that nobody comments or posts anything for months on end. I actually think that the existence of many of the same communities on different instances is the main hurdle here. Drawback of the concept of the fediverse I suppose but it does make the experience on Lemmy much poorer in that regard.
Same here. It's content about a thing that I want to see. Even if I get little to no engagement, hopefully whoever stumbles upon it will be somewhat entertained.
This is a double edged sword. If we had enough people that the smaller communities filled out the main communities would be overridden with people instead of the small community feel we have now everywhere you go.
What’s the draw of having such a small community though? And why do you think that main communities would be overriden? Honest questions here I don’t quite understand what you are concerned about. I personally think that it’s the main problem with the fediverse right now, it’s only flavorless general posts and nothing from small niche interest that drew me to reddit in the first place.
Essentially all of the ones that I used. r/Minecraft, r/minecraftsuggestions, r/conlangs, r/vexillology, r/pixelart, etc.
The thing is that all of these have communities and magazines on the fediverse — it's just that there's little, if any, activity on them. I don't think you can really say that these communities are here if they have one person posting on them regularly.
The only communities that actually have a solid amount of activity here are ones about memes and news. If that's all that you used Reddit for, then the fediverse is doing great, and such people will act baffled at how anyone could stay on or miss Reddit. But for everyone else, the content just isn't there.
Same thing for ttrpgs. That was pretty much all I used reddit for the last few years. It has since just gone away. I've functionally stopped accruing new rpg creators and news.
Also comics. I followed a lot of new creators in the last few years. Most of them only post on Reddit.
Yeah, it'd be nice to see an active Geometry Dash community given that 2.2 just released. /m/geometrydash is in the abandoned magazines section, so I might request ownership and try to get a bit of activity going there.
There are some small niche communities that I miss interacting with because the people were pretty cool. Mostly warhammer and some smaller game communities.
Art/design related communities. I made a few here but I was the only one posting. Also miss the model making/diorama/mini painting subs. And some other little niche hobby communities.
Oh also local city communities are basically nonexistent here and it will prob take years for that to become viable here.
The hololive and vtuber communities weren't able to make the switch. They're here but they're not active enough to actually keep up with.
Plus the talents related don't know fediverse exists and barely even knew reddit existed, so they generally only post on reddit if anywhere (they mostly are only aware of twitter)
I kinda wish the toxicity of /r/politics didn't exist here. I'd be less inclined to seek out more reasonable less insane political subs if I didn't know they were out brainwashing people.
It's not the subreddit causing it. It's people not wanting to deal with Trumpers and their apologia. Based on your posts perhaps you'd be more comfortable in a right wing site like truth social or gab?
Nah, I'm good. Letting you people jerk each other off without discussion give you the illusion of being correct. As I've discovered very very few of you will actually debate. Most just turtle and insult.
I just started shroom hunting when I left Reddit. I’ve learned a fair bit about growing mushrooms since then on the fediverse but I know little about identifying them. I keep finding wild portobellos and I’m too scared to try them! (Yes, identified by gill, cap, spore, and stem discoloration)
It's deffo r/Flairwars and r/Num for me, despite not having been in the latter in the time I was on that site.
Both have their own unique inside jokes, battling systems, lore, fanworks, and most of all, a slow yet steadily thriving community that's accepting of everyone. I often wonder how my first aforementioned community would thrive in this vast federated space, especially with all the new possibilities out here... Maybe new lore expansions, and a reinvigoration on the way?
I still check /r/hockey for sports news since I feel like it's the best way to keep up on all events compared to Shitter or HFBoards. The quality of discussion and friendliness of the community had been pretty good from between 2010-2020, a really good stretch that I can't say was the same for most subreddits I used to follow. From 2020 on, there was a rapid change in tone on that subreddit as more and more angry dbags from Shitter started to frequent it more regularly and it became a not so fun place to engage with anymore.
I recently inherited /m/hockey here. I plan on being more active there in the near future by trying to create multi-topic news summary posts on a weekly basis.
There are some small, niche reddit communities I miss. Unfortunately since this part of the fediverse is small, the niche communities are even smaller. Either moderated by one person and no posts, or it just doesn't exist.
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