Communities for specific video games, like /r/wow or /r/ffxiv
Yep. R/Noita went private and moved to the discord I was already in, but Discord is a terrible replacement for Reddit. I don’t have time to read everything in the community to find anything in the community… So now I only have the comment section in FuryForged to find new discoveries in one of the most ridiculously complicated physics simulators I play.
It’s an obscure enough community that I doubt it will reopen there, and I’d lose some respect for it if it reopened before Reddit actually listened to a single word we said.
Avid Guild wars 2 player here, I really do miss being on that subreddit. Since reddit was also big, it did allow developers to interact with their players a bit more directly and was a good way to get official info to them.
In this specific case I added browsing the game forums instead of going on reddit, not much has changed except the lessened amount of ads on my screen lol.
It’s not so much the communities as the number of posts, I open Lemmy and see posts I saw yesterday only half way down the front page.
Trust me it was worse before the reddit refugees came, I would wait a month before scrolling
yeah, that’s something that is getting slightly better over time if you sub to more instances outside.
Can you please elaborate what you mean by this? Like register at sh.itjust.works, lemmy.world, etc?
Not really, just subscribe to communities outside of your instance.
Like [email protected]. just subscribing to this from another instance and getting updates on your account regardless where it’s from. Sorry if you already knew that.
Gotcha, I understand and will do that!
Use lemmyverse.net
Click the home icon and set your home instance and then search for whatever you want. All links will open in your home instance and you can then just subscribe.
I’m probably missing something easy, but where do you “just subscribe?”
There are a few communities that show up in lemmyverse, but aren’t showing up when I search in my app (Jerboa)
Open the link from lemmyverse in a browser tab and click Subscribe. If on mobile you might have to expand the sidebar first. Then go back to Jerboa.
You only need one home instance. So you’re on lemmy.world from what I can tell. If you go to their homepage and login, then click communities at the top, you can browse all the communities (subreddits). Just subscribe to whatever you want! Then later when you’re browsing you can sort by subscribed and it’ll be just those topics
Honestly, this was helped simply by subbing to a lot of different communities. Each day is a fresh feed. It’s not up to Reddit’s “every single refresh is a brand new front page” level, but it’s enough to be able to scroll for an hour or two each day.
Subscribe to more communities. I have like 50 of them from many different instances and it’s always new content. Make sure to set filter to Last Day or Last 6 hours.
Lemmy.world is the largest instance now I believe with tons of communities so start there.
You can find Communities from instances all over the Lemmyverse at https://browse.feddit.de
Another good one is https://lemmyverse.net/communities
On connect there’s an option to hide read posts
I miss the local subs for my city and other local communities around me. They were great for keeping up with what was going on. I can’t stand all the pissing and moaning on Nextdoor. There are a couple of Facebook groups but I refuse to install any Meta apps on my phone.
I have those but there seems to be several across multiple instances with no clear winner and all of them are pretty sparse. But I feel like that should improve with time.
Battlestations exists, but has no content. I just made the first post in order to help stir up some engagement! 😃
AskHistorians
A lot of craft subs, r/embroidery, r/weaving, r/pottery etc. Also r/twosentencehorror.
*pops up like Obi-Wan*
Hello there!
I have just the list for you: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/289893
Not who you were replying to, but this is awesome. Thank you!
No worries! If you know of any active groups that are missing please let me know, I do regular searches but obviously things change fast :D
Thank you!
The subs for games like Street Fighter, the sub for fight sticks, the kind of semi-niche gaming communities that snowballed because of Reddit’s ubiquity
Agreed. I’m really missing the Street Fighter and and related FGC communities from reddit.
MaybeMaybeMaybe, OddlySatisfying, ThatPeelingFeeling, CrabCats
Trade communities like construction, electricians (my trade), and oshaviolations.
I started posting to eletricians but i am the only one.
r/NFL, r/CFB, and r/Hockey. They all kinda exist here but are nowhere active enough… I miss game threads with thousands of comments.
Where do they exist?
Thank you
Right now I am missing the hyper specific cat subreddits like catswhoyell and catsinbusinessattire. There are so many that I loved to revisit every 2-3 months and see what was there
I stumbled upon this one
Thanks! Subbed.
Oneorangebraincell
Greebles and hitmanimals are always fun too
My local city’s subreddit. Someone’s made one but no one is posting. It was the main way I found out what was going on.
I think every city/location sub is like this. It’s the only one not governed by interest, but of location.
I’m trying to seed my own, but it’s a Sisyphean task. And I know the only way to really get it going is to mention Lemmy IRL.
The dry-herb vaping communities haven’t really transitioned very well, and I’m too lazy to get back into proper community building and moderation after having all my accounts permabanned on reddit. For now I am just sticking to the 420vapezone discord.
r/noncredibledefense. There are a few inactive Lemmy instances of it and the Discord server is cool, but they both pale in comparison to the subreddit
Writingprrompts. Such excellent quality content there.
