Entrepreneurial or small business advice kind of community.
Cardiac support and ICD support. Those were two ones that I really found valuable after heart surgery and getting a pacemaker that exists on Reddit but I have not been able to find anywhere else. kind of lost a really important support structure to me when I left reddit. I know I could start one here but I’m just not the kind of person who is good at getting people to know about something that’s available.
If anything, I almost wish there were less communities. There aren’t many users, so what little content there is gets splattered across so many communities that I sometimes feel like the user-to-community ratio is one to one.
I understand why Reddit needed super niche subreddits, to filter their massive user base, but we don’t have that problem yet.
In fact, it’s even worse in our case, because each community can exist in duplicate on several instances - further fragmenting users.
I’m not necessarily saying it’s bad that we have so many communities, and hopefully we’ll grow in to them over time, but I do think people can sometimes get too focused on the Reddit mindset of creating a community for every little thing, when we just aren’t there yet.
You’re on point. The niche communities are too niche right now now and content should be posting to the more general communities.
Except tenforward.
Even worse is the lack of normie content.
Theres like 75 communities for Linux and theres only 1 post in the weightlifting community with the most subs and that post is “what kind of community is this?”
I like nerd shit, but I also like normie shit.
I have several somewhat niche interests and my favorite is Weezer shitposting. A community for it would be really coolz though I doubt who would post.
I forgot some of the subs I used to vist on reddit. But I liked:
- shittyaskscience
- mildvandalism
- scambait
- maliciouscompliance (this one does exist on lemmy, but it’s not really active)
I miss CartalkUK. It’s was mostly just people having a laugh and taking the piss
looks at blocked community list
Yeeeeah, probably less niche NSFW ones.
At the very least, it would be nice if I didn’t have to block a new AI generated porn community every other day
You can also block whole instances now.
Askadoc, askhistorians, legaladvice, hiphopheads, outoftheloop, aftertheloop
!outoftheloop@lemmy.world exists
- secondsfromdisaster
- Lenny
The entire aviation instance disappeared, awhile ago,
and I wish it hadn’t.
Complaining about niche-communities existing, when the people in them care about them, is nihilist.
Let people have their own space: that’s the whole point of Lemmy, isn’t it?
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen,
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Honestly, rather than a community, a way to make a multi-Reddit style views of communities.
There are many communities with the same subject on different instances. Lemmy is great with this but having user fragmented across everywhere is an issue.
This here is a really an issue at this early stage. I probably have 10 world news communities and I see the same news tens of times across all of them and then of course other news outlets versions of it.
Just block 9, atleast that’s what i do .
Yeah, I’ve thought of that but there are some articles that only get posted in one. I’ll probably start pairing it down and keep only the one with the highest amount of users and engagement.
I use Summit and can make multi communities. Works great!
Well… Not really any, I just decided to create them.
There are ones that I’m planning to create in the future but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Just because they’re there doesn’t mean there is activity. That’s the main problem. It’s so fragmented it’s hard for those interested in a topic to find the same community.
The trick is you have to do it on an Instance with the correct demographic, also make sure to use tools like LCB to get them out to other instances, so they’ll appear in search.
Awooo Awoooo?
The one with the howling puppies. It’s the only thing I miss from Reddit. Not the one with the weird anime girl, the puppies one.
There’s more than enough comms, what those comms need are users.
But even on subreddits that are being actively harassed by reddit admins, users seem to have some kind of stockholm syndrome.
I wish there was a League of Legends community that wasn’t run by the main /r/leagueoflegends moderators and didn’t have official Riot Games endorsement.
The subreddit feels heavily censored and sanitized to make Riot look good.
