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[–] [email protected] 2 points 25 minutes ago

Specific TV show episode threads. I loved reading what people thought, things I'd missed, etc.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Active posts that aren't about linux or politics.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

Have a look at the pinned post on [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

r/simpleliving or, more exactly, a more active version of it since the community is there: [email protected]. And more people participating in the [email protected] community too but hopefully we're slowly getting there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I always feel like people living simply minimize their time online, so this kind of communities tend to be a bit quiet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 45 minutes ago

Many do limit online time but there is also 8 billions of us on this planet. So, no matter how strictly we limit our involvement, I think the community itself, not each individual member, should be a little more active at any given time. But like with many communities on Lemmy we lack more participants ;)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

r/notinteresting being everything but not interesting

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Active communities that aren't about Linux

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Have a look at the pinned post on [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Posting my depraved "performance art" and interacting with my fans in the comments

My woman trolling each other back and forth

A few regulars from Askredditafterdark

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

r/electricians mostly

I'm an industrial electrician and I don't know a single soul in my life outside of my career who I can shoot the shit about electrical systems. Sometimes I just want to nerd out about it, or discuss UL and NEC codes, or sometimes just removed about old crap from decades ago you have to work on haha

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

or sometimes just removed about old crap from decades ago you have to work on haha

dot ml strikes again

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

And here, I thought maybe it was a joke about all the stuff people deleted during the API drama, or maybe a joke about all the stuff getting removed in recent times, but nope, just good old ml censorship.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago

The breadth of the content

[–] [email protected] 51 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Any that you're willing to start up? I'm always looking for new communities to join!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

Starting them up isn’t particularly difficult. Keeping them alive is.

Without enough users (and old content), it can be hard to keep a community afloat

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

the OG communities, that were banned in '16-'17 because the gop started labeling alot of platforms as violent. P45 caused so many people to be overly sensitive, that reddit started banning in large numbers to cull the herd.

and most cities subreddits have been taken over by right wingers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Diversity. People on R were less uniform.

Maybe because they were more.

When there was only one allowed opinion in a sub, then you could often find another sub with the same topics allowed, but the only one allowed opinion was another one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Reddit started out very similar to the current lemmy/fediverse audience. The nerds go first and eventually everyone else follows.

The "When does the narwhal bacon" crowd was not diverse at all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

now it bans you for any opinion as of recently, but more heaivly geared if your criticizing musk, or the right, because musk had complained to spez on 2 occasions to start a purge of accounts.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 hours ago

The hyperspecific interests mainly. The wealth of obscure info too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago

I miss... the idea of it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

The extra-specific ask communities where great! Ask science fiction was one of my favorites

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

Video game specific communities. Like any random game that is even semi-popular has an active sub on Reddit. Even the most popular games in the entire world rn don't have much activity, if they even have communities, on Lemmy.

I would rather argue the motivations of a souls boss than politics or what the best linux distro is 😮‍💨.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I would rather argue the motivations of a souls boss

Miquella did nothing wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Hell, I still lurk truestl because there's no equal here.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I miss reddit from 10 years ago.

Lemmy is nice.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Interaction on posts that have been up for more than 8 hours

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

The New Comments sort helps with that

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 hours ago

The amount of content was nice from reddit. Eventually, I'm sure this platform will get there.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

A less specific demographic, which is a little ironic when referring to reddit. But lemmy is even more a subset of a subset of a subset of people than reddit is, and it gets a bit old at times.

Politics everywhere, and most of it is just circlejerking over something trump is doing and everyone agreeing how terrible he / his supporters / his handlers / the broligarchs are. There isnt much discourse to be had when everyone on here already agrees, and I don't mean I miss right wing voices. Just that I dont need to talk about politics with people who think virtually exactly the same as me about these things. And I'm also not an american.

Then there is an annoying flood of trans content, which is great that it has its place here, but for the most part doesn't interest me beyond a general sentiment of support for people to live their life how they wish. I want more diversity in my feed.

Not in necessarily in opinions but in topics

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

There isnt much discourse to be had when everyone on here already agrees, and I don't mean I miss right wing voices. Just that I dont need to talk about politics with people who think virtually exactly the same as me about these things.

Yes. There's little or no novelty here. I'm not surprised by something new or interesting. I get a lot of nostalgia hits because we've all experienced similar things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

those commnets almost always bots, i dont entertain them, when i do sometimes i report them because they were obvious spamming, like the bots they were.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

The only communities that I still regularly browse on Reddit are the regional communities for the place I live currently and places I've lived previously. Those seem to have little to no activity around here. I no longer participate in them on Reddit, only lurk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

i used to but i heard alot of cities or states got astroturfed by right wingers, in my city, theres all these good-two-shoes people.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Active communities for niche topics, like His Dark Materials, or Would You Rather, and the poll feature, which I used extensively. Yes, I know you can link to external platforms, but integrating it into the post was much nicer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

I totally agree on polls.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 hours ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Getting banned with 100s of my fake account.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I still browse and almost caught myself commenting recently. I quickly backspaced and exited out and came over here where I feel safe posting comments and interacting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

its too easy to gett banned there now, even a simple comment removal will trigger a shadown ban in many cases, plus a VPN would result in a ban eventually.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

RUSTY PLIERS

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