As someone with CPTSD, OCD and Bipolar + psychosis, definetely mental health subs. Particularly suicidewatch.

  • christophski@feddit.ukEnglish
    71·
    2 years ago

    Ask Historians had so much high quality content and there strict moderating ensured it stayed that wau

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldBanned from community
    251·
    2 years ago

    /r/liberalgunowners is missed. I could chat about guns and simple gunsmithing, see neat stuff I didn’t know about, all without the toxic right-wing boolshit.

    We had sane discussions about laws and responsible ownership, stuff like that. People were kind, no judgement, unless one was deliberately argumentative and/or acting a fool regarding safety. Even then, the mods would shut down the trolls (without the banhammer!) and the community would offer advice.

    It was really nice.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      13·
      2 years ago

      I miss that one too. Being a liberal gun nerd in Texas is weird. All the gun shops, ranges, and conventions are more about right-wing politics, police worship, and fetishizing the Confederacy than the hobby.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldBanned from community
        2·
        2 years ago

        I buy everything online and have a nice FFL who I meet in his kitchen to do the paperwork. Also, I have a couple of acres of my own personal swamp to go shooting, so I avoid all the nuts.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    21·
    2 years ago

    AskLemmyAfterDark - it’s healthy to have a place to have frank discussions about sexual health and safe kinkery.

    • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.uk
      4·
      2 years ago

      Even if there is a community, the pool of people providing answers in these sorts of utility subs is going to be a fraction of what it was.

      • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
        4·
        2 years ago

        Well, every now and again, someone needs to post on the reddit one saying “look at them misidentifying a thing on Lemmy”.

        They’ll either be genuinely helpful types, and join us to help out, or they’ll be “someone is wrong on the internet” types, and join us to be correct.

        Obviously I have no idea if this would work in practice.

    • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl
      121·
      2 years ago

      That just doesn’t work.

      There are many subs I wish they were on here and they aren’t even if there is a community called like that, because nobody is there.

        • blindsight@beehaw.org
          1·
          2 years ago

          It really depends on the topic.

          I’m really into a niche of a niche subgenre of books. The Reddit community is the best place to find out about new books and hear people talking about them to get a sense if it’s worth your time to read. I used to spend ~5-10 minutes there every day or two to find out about new books.

          There just aren’t enough Lemmy users into my favourite sub-subgenre in total, and what really made the Reddit community special was author engagement, which will only happen with thousands of active users. I could put a lot of work into making it, but it’s just not likely to go anywhere and, without authors, won’t be very good anyway.

          Hell, even the Parenting community on Beehaw is barely alive, and that’s a huge topic that like a quarter of the population might be interested in, and Beehaw is one of the biggest Lemmy instances.

          So… maybe? For mainstream topics, sure, but niche subreddits needed a unique intersection of conditions to thrive, which Lemmy can’t (yet) replicate.

    • JTStrikesBack@lemm.ee
      3·
      2 years ago

      That’s why [email protected] exists! I realize it’s only me for now, but maybe someday I’ll have people join me.

      It is hard to just start conversations on your own but it really is kind of how you have to do it.

  • The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

    /r/prisonhooch. Fucking hilarious some of the stuff people came up with. One guy made beer out of non-alcoholic beer. Another guy brewed peas into pea-not grigio. There were several people who brewed Powerade into wine. I really miss that subreddit.

  • TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pubEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    I wish the Framework community had moved over wholly. There’s a lot more activity on Reddit than on Lemmy, and the comments are important, so the lemmit online bot can’t replace it.

  • Pyr@lemmy.ca
    9·
    2 years ago

    R4R (or would it be L4L?)

    Liked having conversations with people from various areas. Lemmy might not have the user base for it though.

  • ghen@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    2 years ago

    I’ve wanted to open a string of video game subs on lemmy but i don’t know what instance is best. It would have to be something that is ok with occasional porn and bad words (but not bigotry).