As someone with CPTSD, OCD and Bipolar + psychosis, definetely mental health subs. Particularly suicidewatch.

  • christophski@feddit.ukEnglish
    93·
    8 months ago

    Ask Historians had so much high quality content and there strict moderating ensured it stayed that wau

    • iso@lemy.lolEnglish
      15·
      8 months ago

      lemmynsfw alt account + lemmit.online = both reddit and lemmy content

  • shalafi@lemmy.world
    32·
    8 months ago

    /r/liberalgunowners is missed. I could chat about guns and simple gunsmithing, see neat stuff I didn’t know about, all without the toxic right-wing boolshit.

    We had sane discussions about laws and responsible ownership, stuff like that. People were kind, no judgement, unless one was deliberately argumentative and/or acting a fool regarding safety. Even then, the mods would shut down the trolls (without the banhammer!) and the community would offer advice.

    It was really nice.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      16·
      8 months ago

      I miss that one too. Being a liberal gun nerd in Texas is weird. All the gun shops, ranges, and conventions are more about right-wing politics, police worship, and fetishizing the Confederacy than the hobby.

      • shalafi@lemmy.world
        3·
        8 months ago

        I buy everything online and have a nice FFL who I meet in his kitchen to do the paperwork. Also, I have a couple of acres of my own personal swamp to go shooting, so I avoid all the nuts.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    30·
    8 months ago

    AskLemmyAfterDark - it’s healthy to have a place to have frank discussions about sexual health and safe kinkery.

  • funnystuff97@lemmy.world
    25·
    8 months ago

    okbuddyphd, shittymobilegameads, pizzacrimes, garfieldwithoutgarfield, just all the really stupid obscure ones that give me a chuckle browsing through.

  • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    8 months ago

    Various TV Show subreddits…they just haven’t made it over here yet. Personally, I’d love to see a dedicated instance for TV and movies.

      • xeddyx@lemmy.nz
        5·
        8 months ago

        Yes, but it’s quite inactive. That community basically died shortly after the Reddit exodus. Check the stickied Patch Tuesday megathread for instance, it hasn’t been updated in two months, which shows that the mods have abandoned the community or don’t care - and given that no users posted there either, it seems like users also stopped caring.

        • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          8 months ago

          Definitely, the three most are mostly missing.

          I’m always surprised nobody claimed it as most of people on Lemmy are probably in tech.

          • xeddyx@lemmy.nz
            5·
            8 months ago

            Most Lemmy tech people are skewed towards FOSS, from what I’ve seen. Not that it’s a bad thing mind you.

            Linux sysadmins are just a different breed, most of their issues/discussions revolve around the choice of distro or around corporate takeovers/license changes (Terraform, LXD etc), and very rarely about actual issues (because there are rarely any issues that matter or can’t be fixed easily, if you’re doing your job right). Whereas in the Windows world we’re at the mercy of Microsoft, and often have to rely on the community coming for feedback around issues and workarounds (cause MS support is useless), or because Microsoft is bent upon taking away choice, we’ve have to rely upon the community coming up with innovative solutions for various things. So yea, I really do miss seeing those sort of discussions, as they were quite helpful for my job and gave a lot of insight on different things. Even if there were no issues, just reading about different infrastructure setups and configurations at various workplaces was quite enlightening.

            • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
              1·
              8 months ago

              I see, thanks for your perspective!

              What I meant, is that even if most of the people are biased towards FOSS, on 30k active users, there should be a least a few interesting in taking over that community

      • xeddyx@lemmy.nz
        3·
        8 months ago

        That sub is dead. Last post was two weeks ago with zero comments, and the one before was a whole month ago.

    • krash@lemmy.ml
      2·
      8 months ago

      I always found the sysadmin sub to have an air of bitterness around it. Instead, I focused on the hobbyist tech-subs (such as selfhosted). Grated, their issues have a smaller scope, but still…

    • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl
      14·
      8 months ago

      That just doesn’t work.

      There are many subs I wish they were on here and they aren’t even if there is a community called like that, because nobody is there.

        • blindsight@beehaw.org
          2·
          8 months ago

          It really depends on the topic.

          I’m really into a niche of a niche subgenre of books. The Reddit community is the best place to find out about new books and hear people talking about them to get a sense if it’s worth your time to read. I used to spend ~5-10 minutes there every day or two to find out about new books.

          There just aren’t enough Lemmy users into my favourite sub-subgenre in total, and what really made the Reddit community special was author engagement, which will only happen with thousands of active users. I could put a lot of work into making it, but it’s just not likely to go anywhere and, without authors, won’t be very good anyway.

          Hell, even the Parenting community on Beehaw is barely alive, and that’s a huge topic that like a quarter of the population might be interested in, and Beehaw is one of the biggest Lemmy instances.

          So… maybe? For mainstream topics, sure, but niche subreddits needed a unique intersection of conditions to thrive, which Lemmy can’t (yet) replicate.

    • JTStrikesBack@lemm.ee
      3·
      8 months ago

      That’s why !christmas@lemm.ee exists! I realize it’s only me for now, but maybe someday I’ll have people join me.

      It is hard to just start conversations on your own but it really is kind of how you have to do it.

        • JTStrikesBack@lemm.ee
          1·
          8 months ago

          I’m not sure why there would be an argument at all? Most Christmas groups talk about food, music, decorations, other traditions…

          Not usually a ton of actual arguing.

  • seaQueue@lemmy.world
    17·
    8 months ago

    r/subredditdrama - hands down one of my favourite sources of reddit content. r/drama isn’t my jam, way too much fascist apologia there.

    r/printsf exists already but the reddit community is much more active than lemmy, I’m hoping some of the sf/fiction communities on lemmy can rival it at some point.