Ask Lemmy

Askhistorians and other academic subreddits, along with specific fan communities. Lemmy is just too small to support a good community for a smaller video game, for example. That's pretty much it though I was surprised at how little I missed reddit after switching

The number of users, you can get answers to anything there.

I don't miss anything from reddit, I can still go there if I want. If anything, lemmy still feels underpopulated if I only browse the stuff I'm subscribed to.

• Personal insults.
• The attitude that upvotes and downvotes define right and wrong more than actual reasoning does.
• People thinking they can extrapolate your whole worldview, background and value as a human being from a comment.
• Absolutism and binary thinking, where only two opinions are possible: the Right one and the extreme opposite Wrong one, and questioning ANY aspect of the Right one implies wholehearted support for the Wrong one.

But tbh I don't really miss any of those things, cuz they're all here on lemmy too.

Active niche communities

Active posts that aren't about linux or politics.

Content

Working mobile apps. My Jerboa mobile app for Lemmy works great, but if they hadn't have broken all the mobile apps and acted like such shitheads, I wouldn't even be here :)

I miss reddit from 10 years ago.

Lemmy is nice.

Active communities that aren't about Linux

Video game specific communities. Like any random game that is even semi-popular has an active sub on Reddit. Even the most popular games in the entire world rn don't have much activity, if they even have communities, on Lemmy.

I would rather argue the motivations of a souls boss than politics or what the best linux distro is 😮‍💨.

AskHistorians

Really just the quantity of people, especially on ask subs. Lemmy just feels incredibly empty. And the breadth of topics people discuss here is extremely small.

A balance between communities. There are communities that are very active and fill my feed. Although those community are OK, I am much more interested in some smaller and niche communities. Those get lost in the feed.

The amount of content was nice from reddit. Eventually, I'm sure this platform will get there.

Hide on vote was pretty nice. I used rif before they closed 3rd party apps, and I came to Lemmy

The Colorado avalanche subreddit having more than 2 people

Content, comments

a good solid baseball community, and a sportbook community.

The Reminder bot

The subreddits for individual sports teams, posting comments in game threads with a hundred other fans of your team from around the world.

r/AskHistorians

Active communities for niche topics, like His Dark Materials, or Would You Rather, and the poll feature, which I used extensively. Yes, I know you can link to external platforms, but integrating it into the post was much nicer.

Larger population of users = more content and more communities

The app - Baconreader was so smooth. I'm getting used to the fediverse one, but there are still a lot of decisions by the devs that I hate.

The sheer amount of queer porn - it wasn't even enough because my tastes are.... Varying. But the feed of porn on fediverse is weak as fuck, with a lot of it being really boring and aimed at boring people who are not me (cishet men). I'm confident this will eventually get remedied, but it DID also take like a decade for even Reddit to get good porn, with its own ups and downs.

That being said, there's still so much more to love on fediverse that I don't need to look back to Reddit for. It feels like going from high school to a really big, really liberal college (Reddit->fediverse). I can openly do so much stuff, like say fuck nazis, which I regularly do, and very much mean. I can even say stuff like "the only good nazi..." and people will know what I'm talking about AND agree with, thank fuck. It's just a much more grown up place here, and I'm much more comfortable being closer to being able to speak my mind without having to censor myself, and I've noticed this in other people, too, that there's far less conformity to respectability politics, and people actually say what they think, regardless of how bizarre or unhinged it is, I truly love that.

The hyperspecific interests mainly. The wealth of obscure info too.

A less specific demographic, which is a little ironic when referring to reddit. But lemmy is even more a subset of a subset of a subset of people than reddit is, and it gets a bit old at times.

Politics everywhere, and most of it is just circlejerking over something trump is doing and everyone agreeing how terrible he / his supporters / his handlers / the broligarchs are. There isn't much discourse to be had when everyone on here already agrees, and I don't mean I miss right wing voices. Just that I don't need to talk about politics with people who think virtually exactly the same as me about these things. And I'm also not an american.

Then there is an annoying flood of trans content, which is great that it has its place here, but for the most part doesn't interest me beyond a general sentiment of support for people to live their life how they wish. I want more diversity in my feed.

Not in necessarily in opinions but in topics

r/electricians mostly

I'm an industrial electrician and I don't know a single soul in my life outside of my career who I can shoot the shit about electrical systems. Sometimes I just want to nerd out about it, or discuss UL and NEC codes, or sometimes just removed about old crap from decades ago you have to work on haha

Activity that isn't political shit.

Convenience of blocking. Voyager is absolute ass in this regard.

Being able to conveniently filter out entire subreddits. (Actually I say that but I did have multiple cases where the block list just straight up stopped working.)

The echo chamber also feels way stronger here. It's tiring. Especially the ACAB wank, which hasn't improved with the rise of Nazi America.

I miss... the idea of it.

Specific TV show episode threads. I loved reading what people thought, things I'd missed, etc.

Interaction on posts that have been up for more than 8 hours

The breadth of the content

youtuber communities