• invertedspear@lemm.ee
      13·
      12 days ago

      Active communities, period.

      Reddit started out without subreddits. Eventually grew too big for that so split into topical channels. Then the channel would get too big and a niche would subdivide out. When Lemmy started, or more so when there was the first big exodus from Reddit, all of that was recreated, but without the users. So we have a ton of dead communities that really need to be rolled up and cleaned up.

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    13 days ago

    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.

  • markovs_gun@lemmy.world
    15·
    11 days ago

    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

  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
    14·
    12 days ago

    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

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      13 days ago

      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.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        13 days 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.

  • octobob@lemmy.ml
    12·
    13 days ago

    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

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    102·
    12 days ago
    • 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.

  • JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    12 days ago

    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 :)