I do not miss the circle jerk subs. I admit some were funny, but most were just mean-spirited and ended up becoming worse than whatever it was they set out to make fun of. For example, the books circle jerk sub was full of snobs who snarked at people in the books sub for...gasp... liking popular books.

There's just something inherently pathetic in using a platform to make fun of others on the same platform. It's like going to a dance party solely to stand on the side and make fun of the way people dance.

I hope that sort of thing doesn't catch on here. But the "asshole filter" could creep in if lemmy reaches a high user population.

prorevenge stories.

Glad that there is already !maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world , but there isn't that much content yet.

But at least it exist 😁

Videos

r/writingprompts

The various personal finance related subs. There are some communities with similar names, but the depth of experience is lacking.

An easier way to link communities. It was so simple on reddit just typing r/sub but here it's more complicated

I want even more animals! Rat, rabbit, mouse, everything!

I think I've found most of the communities here that I subscribed to when I left reddit. There are a couple I wish were here or more active.

Daddit was a great group of dads that were supportive and welcoming where we could vent, share memes, and just have general discussions about being a dad. They were really welcoming of moms too, as there's not always a dad present for the kids.

PublicFreakout. I love cringing at the worst people in society

For me economics, finance, and investing subs are the ones that I got back for. Other than that most of the subs that I liked are mostly here

DepthHub & RBI were good at times.

Although the obvious answer for me is the already niche subs on Reddit for software/TV shows which have just a few hundred people there. There'd be 10 people at absolute max on here and the community would not last.

I look at it as Lemmy isn't large enough to support smaller communities unless they come here as is.

Edit: they have been added, I'm thrilled r/lockpicking or room porn if they haven't been added.

It's the lack of really small, niche, but still relatively active communities that is the biggest loss for me (so far). For example, I want to to talk about Brentford FC, a tiny English football club which was only promoted to the Premier League a couple of years ago. But we're a million miles away from that when there are exactly two communities for general soccer and one community for Liverpool FC, all three with exactly one subscriber.

Any other Bees fans out there? This Flekken guy seems pretty promising, even if I had hopes for Alban Lafont.

/r/askscience /r/askmen and the ones for the TV shows I watch.

Just from the top of my head r/BoneAppleTea and r/AmITheAsshole

Parenting communities. The culture can be very hit or miss, but that might apply to most communities. I just want somewhere to commiserate with others without any judgment or the usual dramatic bullshit.

I miss /r/opensuse and an active Java community. There are a few Java communities on several servers, but they are all basically dead.

The average person won't jump through these hoops just trying to subscribe to a community. I can clearly see them on a list, but still not able to join a bunch from my instance (lemm.ee). Are they too small? Nobody from my instance on them? Whatever.