Ask Lemmy

Niche interests. Unfortunately Lemmy doesn't have enough of a population to get enough people/content for specific niches. Some things I specifically followed on Reddit were: fight stick controllers, Street Fighter 6, Wildrift game, dad/parenting communities, SBC gaming. On Lemmy there either isn't any activity at all for these, or too little to have regular content.

TBH I think it needs more mods/participants in existing communities before it starts sharding into more.

In other words, it’s the same problem I observe in many software dev communities: instead of building a new wheel, it’d be better to contribute to existing ones (and facilitate that discovery for others).

And, on that note, I think Lemmy needs better default algorithms to surface them.

!peertube@lemmy.world

It's doing well but I would love to see more videos without the need for YouTube.

We have enough memes and politics and definitely US politics for three lifetimes.

Here's a bunch that I enjoyed, or wish for, or just found by browsing the community list:

• !europe@feddit.org and local country subs in English
• !historymemes@lemmy.world
• !sauna@suppo.fi
• !assholedesign@lemmy.world
• !balconygardening@slrpnk.net
• !gameart@sopuli.xyz
• !pkd@lemmy.world - Included mostly because I had a chuckle from the name, but I'd be interested for real too

There is a TIFU community and nobody posts there

Seems like people on Lemmy are too competent for it :(

Don't know how to link a community but I'd like more people posting on artshare and other art comms.

Also on the soulslike community :D

Edited to add some links :

!artshare@lemmy.world

!digitalart@lemmy.world

!eurographicnovels@piefed.social

!soulslike@lemmy.zip

Data hoarding. !datahoarder@lemmy.ml exists but there isn't much activity.

I've been posting things I find interesting to !discuss@discuss.online. I'm trying to grow it as a community that can have conversations about a broad range of interesting topics, without having to subscribe to a bunch of narrowly-focused communities. Think something like Hacker News or lobste.rs, but without the tech bro mindset.

I really miss the highstrangeness community, imo it desperately needs a replacement.

I need intelligent UAP discussion again dammit!

I was looking for some eyebleach earlier and was disappointed to see how quiet all of the eyebleach communities are.

I'd love to see the canning one be more active! Gardening has been more active than I thought it would be.

Local ones, but that probably depends on way more users joining for it to be useful.

This place is pretty neat and I’d like to see it become more active. If there’s enough demand for a community about a topic I know a fair bit about, I might just start it, or at least hope to encourage others to do the same :)

I wish people would crosspost more or link to other related communities.

Damn the quality of illustrations in https://lemmy.ml/c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works is superb.

Call out to !watercolor@lemmy.ml for those into their coloured waters.

Wouldn't mind seeing more activity in sysadmin because it is the only subreddit I use.

I wish the following were more active:

• !truecomics@midwest.social
• !streetwear@lemmy.world
• !vintageads@sh.itjust.works
• !catastrophicfailure@lemmy.world

if anyone's looking for a community to start posting to, I encourage them to give one of those a shot.

rpg ones both mmo and pnp. I wish the communities were here. I also wish orgs would run their own domains for their members. like the world science fiction society or local makerspaces.

A big chunk of my time on reddit was just chatting with sports fans in local team subs during games and in league wide subs about current events.

Philosophy or at least philosophy memes.

Also, more signposting and less doom. All of my algorithms are so depressing already.

A whowouldwin community.

Battleboarding communities draw a lot of engagement and help retain new users among the younger demographics.

I just want the user base to grow enough to support small niche communities.

That was Reddit at its best and Lemmy just doesn’t have the user base to support it yet

A while ago I tried to look for something similar to Reddit's Tip of My Tongue/Joystick (looking for media/games you have vague memories of and don't know the title), but didn't seem to find one. And I suspect it's a bit niche thing.

Emulation and piracy.

c/Mexico... But seeing how most of the "news" from my country in the fediverse are government propaganda (and people get mad when it gets pointed out), I could stay on r/Mexico and it would be the same.
Also a general lack of latinamerican content.

Edit: and I mean fully in spanish.

We need more memes about US elections

The kind of communities that hand out free sex, drugs, cash or scotch. I'm a simple man.