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.
I totally agree on polls.
I miss reddit from 10 years ago.
Lemmy is nice.
I agree.
Came here to say this. Reddit is a shitshow, it’s as bad as Facebook now IMO. Lemmy is quiet but higher quality and a far nicer atmosphere
r/popping
I do occasionally go back to reddit for that one. I don’t think video heavy subs will make it here in lemmy’s current state.
RUSTY PLIERS
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 😮💨.
I would rather argue the motivations of a souls boss
Miquella did nothing wrong.
Honestly, the only thing I don’t condone him doing is literally giving up his love. How can he be a benevolent god without that?
I feel like there’s probably about 50 different directions that one could take that idea, and the story very clearly paints that act as a Bad Thing™ to have done.
But to play devil’s advocate (just because I have also been missing this type of discussion), one could argue that experiencing love would compromise Miquella’s plans for his planned age of compassion. An age of compassion would be one which treats everyone equally, to try to universally end worldly suffering.
Love, on the other hand, is what allows one to play favorites, and is also something that cannot really be controlled. Having a stronger attachment towards some people over others because of love would result in discontent, and sabotage the type of egalitarian compassion Miquella wanted to create.
Marika’s reign became rocky because there were conflicts between those she favored and those she shunned. She absolutely played favorites, and did not love everyone equally. Her solution to break the cycle of suffering was to simply remove death from the world entirely, but as we saw, that just ended up making its own whole host of problems.
So I think Miquella was trying to avoid making that same mistake of favoritism we saw under Marika, but ended up making another mistake which could have been just as potentially consequential as his mother’s decision to shatter the rune of death. A dispassionate “compassion” wouldn’t really be compassion at all.
Hell, I still lurk truestl because there’s no equal here.
Lemmy.world already has a sub for the best game ever.
A lot of good people need to make the switch.
The amount of content was nice from reddit. Eventually, I’m sure this platform will get there.
Active niche communities
Any that you’re willing to start up? I’m always looking for new communities to join!
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
Local communities that are active too
Really just the quantity of people, especially on ask subs. Lemmy just feels incredibly empty. And the breadth of topics people discuss here is extremely small.
For me it’s also the breadth of people there.
Gift and a curse. Gift when some random person has a hilarious, crazy story. Curse because now it is infected with average people who are extremely materialistic, closed minded, and enchained by limiting self beliefs. So it quickly becomes a cesspool of hate, depression, and crab bucketing.
Yup! I don’t miss the latter half at all. There’s still plenty of stupid walking around Lemmy but it’s manageable.
It’s the worst thing about Lemmy and all it really does is make me more hesitant to squander potential friends by acting shitty, and less liable to spend hours chatting.
I could go on a sub like NoStupidQuestions or AskElectricans, etc where someone would ask a question about some super obscure topic I happen to be knowledgeable on. I could write a long, in-depth response which would then get dozens of responses and further questions. I’d be engaged in the same conversation about this topic or that for days.
Here, it feels like 99% of conversations are about IT/programming, which is not my field, or about American politics.
Yeah no, it’s not the best. But I’d still curl that monkey’s paw any day
Askhistorians and other academic subreddits, along with specific fan communities. Lemmy is just too small to support a good community for a smaller video game, for example. That’s pretty much it though I was surprised at how little I missed reddit after switching
The subreddits for individual sports teams, posting comments in game threads with a hundred other fans of your team from around the world.
- Personal insults.
- The attitude that upvotes and downvotes define right and wrong more than actual reasoning does.
- People thinking they can extrapolate your whole worldview, background and value as a human being from a comment.
- Absolutism and binary thinking, where only two opinions are possible: the Right one and the extreme opposite Wrong one, and questioning ANY aspect of the Right one implies wholehearted support for the Wrong one.
But tbh I don’t really miss any of those things, cuz they’re all here on lemmy too.
I’m gonna downvite youre comment you reddit libtard. /s
Active posts that aren’t about linux or politics.
Have a look at the pinned post on [email protected]
Lemmy is actually getting better. It’s like Reddit when it was just starting.
Hey now, we also have programming and meta-fediverse discussions as well /s
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 isn’t much discourse to be had when everyone on here already agrees, and I don’t mean I miss right wing voices. Just that I don’t 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
AITAH
