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I see similar comments every now and then. What exactly is missing here for you? There’s a community for almost anything except some niche topics
Local communities are lacking. We don't have the critical mass for that.
More diversity, but since we're commenting under a new user's comment, that may be correcting itself.
Niche topics was all I ever used Reddit for, so in my case, Lemmy just doesn’t replace Reddit at all. None of the subreddits I follow have an active equivalent Lemmy community. They go from a few posts a day and dozens of comments on Reddit to “last post: 3 years ago” on Lemmy.
Lemmy simply lacks a wide range smaller niche communities that exist on Reddit i.e. odd hobbies, smaller sports niches, etc.
I'd rather that I didn't have to keep using Reddit for those smaller communities, but I have replaced 80% of my Reddit usage, so I'm not complaining.
When this is brought up, the typical responses is the well-meaning suggestion to "start it yourself" or "be the first", except that hasn't been fruitful in my experience.
The communities that I still use Reddit for, are already present on Lemmy and have been open for years, but they lack the amount of user necessary to make them worthwhile.
There are plenty of communities and topics for them and what not, but engagement is the problem. There's no one here and most of the people here are here because even reddit didn't want them. This place is insufferable at times.