Don’t miss one, I want to hear it all.
I miss the VRChat sub myself. Not much of it here. There’s more on the microblog side of the magazine but very few threads. Maybe I’ll start posting patch notes that they put into discord there. A Resonite community would be nice too but I don’t think that platform has enough users currently to make a thriving sub here yet.
You know what I think I’m just going to request ownership over it and see if I can do anything with it.
I still check /r/hockey for sports news since I feel like it’s the best way to keep up on all events compared to Shitter or HFBoards. The quality of discussion and friendliness of the community had been pretty good from between 2010-2020, a really good stretch that I can’t say was the same for most subreddits I used to follow. From 2020 on, there was a rapid change in tone on that subreddit as more and more angry dbags from Shitter started to frequent it more regularly and it became a not so fun place to engage with anymore.
I recently inherited /m/hockey here. I plan on being more active there in the near future by trying to create multi-topic news summary posts on a weekly basis.
At this point, it’s not the communities, it’s the engagement.
True, but I was still curious about what communities get mentioned here. And also, without communities catering to different users’ interests, there will be no engagement.
Bingo.
All the niche communities exist it’s just that nobody comments or posts anything for months on end. I actually think that the existence of many of the same communities on different instances is the main hurdle here. Drawback of the concept of the fediverse I suppose but it does make the experience on Lemmy much poorer in that regard.
This is a double edged sword. If we had enough people that the smaller communities filled out the main communities would be overridden with people instead of the small community feel we have now everywhere you go.
There are some small niche communities that I miss interacting with because the people were pretty cool. Mostly warhammer and some smaller game communities.
Grimdank made it over here if that’s one of the ones you’re missing, would love more Warhammer memes
Edit: @grimdank
Essentially all of the ones that I used. r/Minecraft, r/minecraftsuggestions, r/conlangs, r/vexillology, r/pixelart, etc.
The thing is that all of these have communities and magazines on the fediverse — it’s just that there’s little, if any, activity on them. I don’t think you can really say that these communities are here if they have one person posting on them regularly.
The only communities that actually have a solid amount of activity here are ones about memes and news. If that’s all that you used Reddit for, then the fediverse is doing great, and such people will act baffled at how anyone could stay on or miss Reddit. But for everyone else, the content just isn’t there.
was polandball and geometry dash subs
