Hey everyone, I just joined 5 minutes ago. Been a Redditor for 7y 2m. I’m actually really going to miss reddit and many of the communities such as r/idiotsincars, r/catastrophicfailures, and well a couple hundred more over followed over the years. I’m hoping I can find more community here though. I never felt connected to the users on Reddit. Maybe it will be different here.
The only communities I regularly posted to was gif subs. So I'm going to have to see about starting a server for all those categories and bring it back
A lot of subreddits that have been said I'll also miss, but for me personally I'll miss the Math based subreddits I used to follow the most. r/badmath was a particular fav. I don't have many "math people" in my friend group so it was nice to have a place to chat about differnet math topics and learn. But hey, I'm sure with time we can expect a lot of those subreddits to find a home elsewhere. Hopefully here. I like it a lot so far!
Some of the industry specific ones like supply chain or logistics or even insurance were fun to lurk, and get a sense of what people in the industry think of those outside it
Reminds me that r/changemyview also really requires a large pool of participants to have value... Damn, I really liked that subreddit. I feel like it made me a better person.
All videogame communities. With wikis either not existing or not being as informative as discussion spaces depending on the fandom, and reliable journalists being seen as the exception rather than the rule (for every well written, accurate, up to date article, there are several that tell you to use Amazing Manderville Chakrams with a full Pentamelded Augmented Rinascita set) and the conflicting information between them is extremely hard to process as someone trying to reach the correct answer while reaching the correct answer is often the collective focus of a Reddit comment thread- tangent, sorry. It resulted in information largely gravitating to dozens of discord servers spread super far between and/or the subreddit, with by far the most accessible way to get answers being the game's subreddit.
The loss of information will be a huge blow to some games and players far more than others, it really depends on your playstyle differences or how much of your fandom focused on its subreddit. Losing one game's subreddit may be whatever, but losing another game's subreddit may be your personal burning of the Library of Alexandria.
I care about all game specific subs, because every game sub I didn't need was likely someone else's Library of Alexandria.
I will miss all my small subs like r/purplecoco which was basically pics of plugs in strange places. And chairs in water which was basically pics of chairs in water.
Also will miss most of the political subs that I followed that veered towards me politically.
Also r/news. A lot of information I received over the last 10 years came from some sub on Reddit.
I'm going to miss all the weird niche subreddits I was a part of that will probably never show up here in force because there's just not enough people on Lemmy to begin the formation of such niche subreddits. The amount of users interested in those things on Lemmy will be proportionally smaller compared to the number on Reddit, and so it will make it just that much harder to have flourishing and active communities around those things.
If you start the link at /c and leave out the part before it, (your home instance), the link will open in a users own instance when they open it. Very easy to open a community and sub to it, then.
I had mixed results with the community. I got some great articles that I was able to share to raise awareness, some great book recommendations for everything from coping with stress to fiction to distract myself to useful sustainability topics.
But it also wreaked havoc on my mental health overall and I got downvoted for trying to find environmental communities that werent just big corporations in disguise or ineffective at their goals.
Overall definitely not going to miss it but a community that isn't afraid to talk about collapse while still trying to find some solutions (even if just small individual solutions) would be welcome imo.
Hm. Top scifi recommendations are going to be Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (you probably already read that one though) Hyperion by Dan Simmons The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is on my to read list. Parable of the Sower (its not really scifi but is good fiction that looks at our world post climate issues from the eyes of a 15 year old)
Not a book but an amazing three season sci fi series on Netflix is Dark (its German, the dub is not terrible)
Fantasy Recs: Any Ursla Le Guin Shadow and Bone (it has a netflix series too) Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrel (Regency novel but with magic) Anything by Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (retelling of Korean folk myth that is a little romancey and not super deep but I thoroughly enjoyed reading especially since I was not familiar with the myth)
Recommeded by r/collapse (I have yet to start any of these) When things fall apart : heart advice for difficult times by Pema Chodron Where the deer and the antelope play : the pastoral observations of one ignorant American who loves to walk outside by Nick Offerman Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond (volumes 1&2) Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke, as translated by S. Mitchell Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Hahn Prosper by Chris Martenson and Adam Taggart The Fifth Sacred Thing A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers Station 11 How to Prepare for Climate Change by David Pogue The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of Our World by Iain McGilchrist
Non-Fiction: Deep Ecology (I will have to check my bookshelf for the author) The Sand County Alamac by Aldo Leopold Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation (funny and educational about mating habits of other species framed as an advice column)
Anyway I will edit and add to this tonight or tomorrow to add things I am forgetting from my bookshelf (if I don't remember to edit give me a poke, ADHD makes things hard)
Holy shit! Thanks for all the recs! Awesome reply! If you’re into si-fi May I suggest the red rising series, the sixth book in the series comes out next month and I believe there will be one more after that! There are also 3 graphic novels that help with world building.
Supposing that we'll always be here because... we've always been here is exactly the kind of thinking that's fucked our species.
The fact alone that more people aren't concerned over the fact that we've passed +1.5C in La Nina years even with aersol masking is horrifying. Look up 'blue ocean event' or 'clathrate gun' or actually learn about the increasing ocean acidification or the break down of the jet stream and if you're any kind of intelligent at all (which your comment has me highly doubting) you'll see a reason to miss such a community. It sounds like you're just another one of those who'd rather stick their head in the sand and worship your monied betters, though.
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