Which subreddits would you most like to see on Lemmy?
I'm genuinely so excited to see some of the more focussed communities blossom on this platform as they have on Reddit over the years. Which are your favourites and which do you think could succeed here?
I follow quite a few bands on Reddit and those are the biggest communities I'd be sad to see gone. I'm number 1 a Swiftie and made this to make sure that community survives any Reddit fallout, but any band communities are welcome on my instance: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/
(Literally went up today so it's a bit empty, community creation is open though!)
r/twobestfriendsplay is the main one I have not brought over that I am too shy to because its so community based.
Besides that would like some more generalized art/hobby subs, stuff like r/pixelart, r/blender, the xheads music subreddits. I already made !indieheads, but I would love to see the rest! And maybe some of the aesthetic subs too, like liminalspaces (if there isn't already), global village coffeehouse, and skeuomorphism.
Also r/regards, but IDK anything about bots to set up something like that, plus what makes it work hinges entirely on it being an invite only subreddit. I'm not sure how to bring something like that over to Lemmy.
Also this is a deep cut but r/easywdw. They don't deserve to lose their community again. :(
That's what I think too, I think we need more of them before this will hit wider adoption. There are several general instances, which are great, but we need to start seeing more specific ones. I'm thinking ones that aren't necessarily for "Sign up here for my instance" but more "Hey, here's a few communities you can subscribe to if you're interested"
niche communities are [both] hard AND easy.
some niche communites have a hard time staying active on ordinary reddit. (so therefore what does that mean for lemmy’s sucess rate)
on the otherhand:
reddit nich communites are such a horrific failure , in many cases, that literally one active poster would make lemmy versions massively superior to shitty mainstream reddit.
Well I just subbed to !uncle_bens and read your posts. I haven't got much to add yet as I'm currently doing my second attempt as the first one needed to be aborted early. Fingers crossed and I'll add some stuff there if I have anything
I support anything creative, unfortunately I'm not seeing a lot of that yet. I build models, dioramas, scratch build buildings, etc.
I was tempted to start a general making community where all disciplines of making are supported, but as far as I can see on the app that isn't an option.
I want to see all the niche game specific subs, or at least how they used to be. Reddit started going downhill recently, with lots of good discussion moving to discord, and subreddits just being flooded with memes. I hate searching for anything on Discord...
I dont know if my niche will quite fit the site yet, but I've followed a lot of animal subs ( crestedgecko, aidke, partyparrot, the twenty thousand cat subs... catsbeingcats of course a favorite ) and also a lot of botany style subs ( botany is the obvious one, houseplants, houseplantcirclejerk, savagegarden, mycology ) and then the unusual to pique interest ( unusualvideos, atbge, designdesign, barbarawalters4scale, hmmmgifs )
Special call out to /todayilearned a /awwducational for giving me fun facts to share with my co workers.
I think if there were master communities it would help appeal to a broad crowd.
SPORTS! The sports subreddits for specific leagues or teams were some of my most visited. I always hated r/NFL though because the mods only really allowed twitter links rather than legit discussion. I'm going to try and be as active as I can in the NFL and NBA communities here, and I might open some for my favorite teams.
This is actually a great opportunity to organically develop communities like r/NBAdiscussion but for other leagues. I always found reddit to be lacking a real football discussion subreddit, and r/NFL had such strict rules you couldn't even talk about relevant topics, such as EA and the NFL exclusive license (any Madden-related post would be auto-removed and told to post on r/Madden), and you also couldn't advertise an NFL discussion based sub anywhere either.
There's got to be an overlap between Lemmy users and sports fans! I can't be the only tech nerd who is interested in the fediverse and also loves American sports!
Yeah, one of the few things I still use reddit for regularly is NHL discussion. (Go Capitals!) I wish we had communities for that here.
The other subreddits I still use regularly are for specific video games. Some of them really have no hope of making it to lemmy, but I think we could probably fit pokemon discussion and trading stuff here.
I expect a large influx of redditors over the next few months, especially when they kill off old.reddit and the 3rd party apps no longer work. So if you create (if it isn't already created) an NHL and Pokemon community here, I'm sure users will find them and they would become active eventually. We are decently early here in my opinion.
I figured it had to be coming, but I haven't heard yet about old.reddit being killed. Is that going to happen at the same time as the third-party apps?
Getting rid of old.reddit is just a guess of mine. They got rid of i.reddit recently which was the old mobile version, so it seems like a logical next move since a lot of the new reddit features don't work on old.reddit.
There's always a chance they keep old.reddit for a long time, but they have no profit incentive to do so
Yeah it exists, but it had only 10 members and one total post when I joined an hour ago. I just created a New York Giants community and I'm going to be posting to the NFL one throughout the season to help it grow!
An NBA community also exists at a similar size. I'll go ahead and create a Nets community for my team there.
Well, at least I've subbed to add one more to the list. I'll go comment in the 'favorite team' thread to at least kick things off in that thread as well.
Agreed. For me it’s motorsports. There’s an existing F1 community but it’s not very active. I’m hopeful that it’ll grow and we’ll see other communities form around it for other sports.
I really like posting in my local team's subreddits, as it really does feel like a tight nit community. Especially since my teams are not that great, the ones that actually still participate are the diehards.
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