The number of users, you can get answers to anything there.
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2025
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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
I don't miss anything from reddit, I can still go there if I want. If anything, lemmy still feels underpopulated if I only browse the stuff I'm subscribed to.
- 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
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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 :)
A balance between communities. There are communities that are very active and fill my feed. Although those community are OK, I am much more interested in some smaller and niche communities. Those get lost in the feed.
- use alts for different interests (e.g. one account for niche communities, one for memes, one for news)
- consider https://piefed.social/ as they have personal and public feeds (multireddits)
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Active posts that aren't about linux or politics.
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
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The Colorado avalanche subreddit having more than 2 people
All 4 avalanche fans were on Reddit?
/Jk
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.
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
a good solid baseball community, and a sportbook community.
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.
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r/twobestfriendsplay, the second best subreddit for everything
Activity that isn't political shit.
Convenience of blocking. Voyager is absolute ass in this regard.
Being able to conveniently filter out entire subreddits. (Actually I say that but I did have multiple cases where the block list just straight up stopped working.)
The echo chamber also feels way stronger here. It's tiring. Especially the ACAB wank, which hasn't improved with the rise of Nazi America.
Convenience of blocking. Voyager is absolute ass in this regard.
Can you elaborate, what is bad?
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Active communities that aren't about Linux
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.
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The app - Baconreader was so smooth. I'm getting used to the fediverse one, but there are still a lot of decisions by the devs that I hate.
The sheer amount of queer porn - it wasn't even enough because my tastes are.... Varying. But the feed of porn on fediverse is weak as fuck, with a lot of it being really boring and aimed at boring people who are not me (cishet men). I'm confident this will eventually get remedied, but it DID also take like a decade for even Reddit to get good porn, with its own ups and downs.
That being said, there's still so much more to love on fediverse that I don't need to look back to Reddit for. It feels like going from high school to a really big, really liberal college (Reddit->fediverse). I can openly do so much stuff, like say fuck nazis, which I regularly do, and very much mean. I can even say stuff like "the only good nazi..." and people will know what I'm talking about AND agree with, thank fuck. It's just a much more grown up place here, and I'm much more comfortable being closer to being able to speak my mind without having to censor myself, and I've noticed this in other people, too, that there's far less conformity to respectability politics, and people actually say what they think, regardless of how bizarre or unhinged it is, I truly love that.
Yup, the porn is lacking. I think part of the problem is all gay porn gets downvoted on World even if it's posted on LemmyNSFW, and the one posted on World is simply not welcome. I tried but it didn't catch on so I let it be. :/
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The subreddits for individual sports teams, posting comments in game threads with a hundred other fans of your team from around the world.
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 😮💨.
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youtuber communities
Larger population of users = more content and more communities
The amount of content was nice from reddit. Eventually, I'm sure this platform will get there.
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.
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