I, being someone who works with computers, have had some luck with most of my favorite subs being here already.

Despite that, some of my hobby ones still aren’t here. NFL exists, but it’s the same as nothing so far. Soccer I couldn’t find at first, maybe today it already does? Also, no sign of fantasy football.

I also followed a bunch of History subs, but looks like most people in Lemmy only care about science and technology.

Tell us, what is missing for you?

  • dogmuffins@lemmy.ml
    31·
    3 years ago

    Not really. It’s incredibly frustrating and I’ve def lost some faith in humanity.

    I thought /r/selfhosted would be ready to jump but everyone is like “but there’s no users on lemmy” and “you’ll split the community” and “we’re going to go dark for two days - that will teach them!”

    Consequently there’s been no support for any single refuge.

    Additionally people have set up several communities here with similar names in the past but now mods aren’t responding so it’s all a bit of a mess.

  • Cat with no eyebrows@lemmy.one
    251·
    3 years ago

    I’m missing witchesagainstthe patriarchy, mommit, and quilting. Everything else is here and I’m going to get more familiar this weekend and maybe start some groups

  • Roger F. Gint@sh.itjust.works
    23·
    3 years ago

    I wish there was something like AskHistorians but I highly doubt I’ll ever find something that good without a solid moderation team and very strict rules. Feels like it will either be Reddit (and fuck that to be honest) or nothing.

    I still can go through rabbit holes on Wikipedia at least so there’s that.

  • StringTheory@beehaw.org
    20·
    3 years ago

    They’re heeeeeeeere…

    I’m really pleased by how many are starting anew on Lemmy. I giggled like a little kid when I saw HydroHomies was already up.

  • Landrin201@lemmy.ml
    19·
    3 years ago

    Yes but there’s only 7 subscribers and I’m the only post :(

    Then again it’s a niche community about a fantasy series, I’m not surprised it doesn’t have much going on yet.

    c/WheelofTime

  • ArtVandelay@lemmy.world
    19·
    3 years ago

    I created mine at /c/guitars , I’m not sure if the reddit community at large will join though. I’m hesitant to push it anywhere, it feels like sleazy self promotion. I just wanna talk about my hobbies with other hobbyists, and leave all the corporate greed back at reddit.

  • Nonagon ∞ Orc@lemmy.world
    17·
    3 years ago

    I just hope Lemmy becomes huge so niche things will start popping up, I miss specifc band and game subs like r/KGATLW and r/factorio for example. Though I have also found the searching of communities across instances to be somewhat unreliable. I’m also hoping for some good meme communities to flourish.

          • thegiddystitcher@beehaw.org
            122·
            3 years ago

            Totally understandable and fine. But then you can’t complain about there being no content, that’s all.

            This is all just part of being an early adopter on a platform that relies on user-generated content.

            • Romulus Roy@lemmy.fmhy.mlOP
              3·
              3 years ago

              Yea, not really complaining. I knew there will be stuff that would be missing stuff by adopting it so early.

              This post is aimed more to encourage people to do exactly what you said, btw. See shared interests, engage in the same discussions and all.

              • thegiddystitcher@beehaw.org
                3·
                3 years ago

                Absolutely! Didn’t read your post as a complaint I’m just clarifying for the other commenter 🙂

                The main problem with recreating /r/NFL is it relies on news from places like Twitter, and the sort of people moving to Lemmy are likely to have also left Twitter…

  • Moonguide@lemmy.ml
    16·
    3 years ago

    Not really. My most visited subs on reddit (fuck spez) were Rimworld, Zomboid, Hunt Showdown and various hobby/profession subs (graphic design, illustration, itap, photography). I’m fairly confident a UX/UI sub will pop up sooner rather than later considering how techie Lemmy’s userbase seems to be. Iirc there is a gaming related comm on beehaw, but the odds those three games will be talked about is rather slim.

    Edit: also, Swoleacceptance. Recently got back to the gym due to mental health. Was a gym rat years ago but life got in the way.

          • starrox@lemmy.ml
            4·
            3 years ago

            Yeah its all a bit confusing.

            Say, you find an entry in https://beehaw.org/c/creative that you like and you’d like to subscribe to the whole community.

            IF someone in your home instance (lemmy.ml) has already added …creative, you can just search for it in “communities” and you can then open and subscribe on the righthand side.

            IF however you are the first in your home instance to access it, then you have to add it manually.

            I do the following (someone more experience may enlighten us if there’s a better way):

            • Use https://browse.feddit.de/ to find the community or just copy the link of the main community (in this case https://beehaw.org/c/creative)

            • Be logged in in your homeinstance, click on the magnifying glass top right to search and then paste the link and search. The community will show up as a link and you can go there and subscribe.

            Edited for some clarity.

            • Torty@beehaw.org
              2·
              3 years ago

              This is probably the most succinct explanation of how to add comms that are outside of your home instance that I’ve come across, good stuff!

              You should see if you can get this pinned somewhere more visible I think it’d help a lot of Reddit refugees

    • Gormadt@beehaw.org
      3·
      3 years ago

      I feel you on the mental health getting in the way of the gym. I’ve recently started getting back into share due to improving my mental health and I’m kicking myself for not going back sooner.

      I’m hoping some more niche hobby/profession communities will come over soon. If not I may have to start one and that’s a scary thought.

      • Moonguide@lemmy.ml
        2·
        3 years ago

        I’m not sure I’m feeling the mental health benefits yet (today I did get an endorphin rush however, first time in a while), but I’ve been back for a very short time. Dealing with some injuries and post covid symptoms now, mostly endurance related, as well, which hasn’t been fun but eh, I’ve been worse. At the very least I’ve gone down a few sizes and look okay in most of my wardrobe. Though I will say, I did miss pull day.

        Agree on the scary thoughts. I’m not much of a social person and have committment issues, I’d be a terrible mod, lol.

        • Gormadt@beehaw.org
          2·
          3 years ago

          Yeah it took a little while to feel the mental health benefits, basically once I also fixed my sleep schedule. But the hardest part was sticking to it earlier on.

          I’ve only been working out again for a couple months and I usually focus on body weight stuff and cardio. I’ve never been big on getting swoll just filled out of that makes sense.

          I’ve definitely got some old injuries that like to make things tough but I just remember the physical therapy I had to do for them and add those exercises back into the mix.

      • Senseibull@lemmy.ml
        1·
        3 years ago

        Start it, it helps with the user migration when potential new sign ups visit lemmy for the first time, someone will probably offer to moderate it on your behalf in the future

    • hadrian@beehaw.org
      1·
      3 years ago

      There’s also Beehaw’s new writing community which just opened, !writing@beehaw.org

      Not specific to writing prompts, but there’s at least one prompt that’s been posted, and there’s discussion about creating a regular writing prompts thread as well.