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.
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.
I always feel like people living simply minimize their time online, so this kind of communities tend to be a bit quiet
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 ;)
We don’t have 8 billions people, we have 50k monthly active users.
[email protected] is the most popular sport on the planet, the community is quiet quiet
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
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.
r/AskHistorians
The extra-specific ask communities where great! Ask science fiction was one of my favorites
The hyperspecific interests mainly. The wealth of obscure info too.
My points or whatever. I used to be a huge pot head and made some content people really liked so I had some nice numbers.
The breadth of the content
Subs/communities for actively watched shows. I find myself needing to browser redlib for insights on, most recently, the white lotus and the last of us
I still go back to reddit for r/severanceappletvplus.
[email protected] is nice, but not the same.
Hide on vote was pretty nice. I used rif before they closed 3rd party apps, and I came to Lemmy
Don’t know if you know but we have hide on read in the settings, but I also wish it worked like on Reddit.
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Yeah, I have that enabled, but really miss my hide on vote
You can always suggest it on the community of the app you are using
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
Content
Working mobile apps. My Jerboa mobile app for Lemmy works great, but if they hadn’t have broken all the mobile apps and acted like such shitheads, I wouldn’t even be here :)
Rip rif
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My beloved. I kept it on my phone for a few weeks after it was shut out, it still had access to some content and I thought all this would blow over :(
I kept it until getting a new phone lol. I remember actively using it when it suddenly stopped working, like a month after it was supposed to stop working
Getting banned with 100s of my fake account.
The number of users, you can get answers to anything there.
