Right now I don’t have a reddit account and I just lurk there, but if I really wanted to talk about, say, a specific TV show I like, or a Movie, or Anime, or a Book… that would not exist on the fediverse. It’s either just Reddit or maybe Discord.
If I wanna talk about stuff from a non-white perspective, the best place I’d really find my people outside the great firewall is Reddit.
I mean I the amount of Cantonese-speakers on Lemmy is like… single-digits
Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Niche communities that simply don’t exist on Lemmy. If your only hobbies are tech, lemmy probably covers all of your bases, but there are nearly no niche non-tech communities here.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
And if they do exist, there are 4 subscribers and zero posts in the last 6 months.
limelight79@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah. I help mod the Washington Capitals hockey team sub, and recently I looked through every other NHL team’s sub, and we’re the ONLY ones that post game day threads. And even with us, it’s basically only one or two of us commenting on the games. Compare that to dozens or even hundreds of people commenting on every game in every team’s reddit sub.
k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I tried to revitalize the sens community last year during the playoffs. I haven’t been able to watch this season much because of crazy timezone differences enduring my vacation…
frongt@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
And regional communities. There’s not nearly enough people in the fediverse to support city or state communities. And only the most populous countries.
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Tbh most regional subreddits feel like they’re full of right wing chuds.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 2 days ago
They did exist before reddit as forums, however they where fragmented across different languages and websites. At some point Google started to show reddit more often, because it was more search engine optimized and mobile friendly. This means new users found reddit first, and old users where slowly pulled away from their forums into reddit.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah. I’m not saying I like it or that it’s how it should be. It’s just how it is. I basically go to reddit last these days.
Zirconium@lemmy.world 2 days ago
r/kitchenconfidential
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Can’t lie I miss r/sneakers. As an avid collector I miss the engagement
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
There’s also fun bullshit communities that refuse to migrate too. I listen to some of them on YouTube as they read the stories from there while I work on other things or drive.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Some are pretty limited even in reddit too