The thing I miss most from reddit is the ability to find decently sized communities for extremely niche topics. Lemmy just isn't big enough to support that. However, I certainly don't miss it enough to actually go back to using Reddit. There's other places to go for that (like Discord servers / Matrix spaces).

r/asksciencefiction brought up a lot of great ideas and interesting arguments.

One of my favorites was 'what if the Addams Family had discovered baby Kal-El?'

Yes and no. I miss some of the more niche communities and some subreddits that had great sources of information.

But I don't miss the other 90%.

Smaller, niche subs. The state/city subs. The specific career subs. The hobby subs.

The niche boards for problem solving is about the only thing.

I love that you can binge a TV show from 5-10 years ago and then go to Reddit and see all of the post episode discussions. The next time I watch a trashy reality TV show, I will miss not having Reddit post episode analysis. When I’ve looked in the past, the best I could find on Lemmy was someone posting nudes of contestants from past seasons. The makeup and skincare subreddits were super informative. IDK if they’re still good since I’ve been mostly Reddit free lately.

The amateur porn was way better

Game based communities suck pretty much everywhere. But the ones on reddit, you could at least usually count on enough activity to get good info.

A lot of the communities I frequent simply never made it. They were too niche, or it simply didn't fit Lemmy.

Though I'd argue that what I miss more is the usability. Old Reddit and RES is a wonderful experience. Lemmy and Alexandrite are closer to new Reddit than old, including the poorer performance.

I know there are some interfaces that emulate the old Reddit experience, but they lack the RES integration that makes old Reddit particularly nice to use.

I miss ShittyMorph. Randomly coming across one of those Hell in a Cell comments randomly always made me day.

I miss Reddit from two or three years ago. But all my favourite communities were overrun by bots.

“Wow, that’s interesting. Could you tell me more about that?”

Anything good that Reddit ever had was because of people. It’s gone now.

Some sizeable language learning communities. Unless I've been living under a rock and some c/LearnJapanese or c/tokipona on some Lemmy instance absolutely took off

I also miss some gaming communities, but those being connected to some commercial product I can get they don't do well on Lemmy 😅

I miss the ol' reddit switcheroo and also I miss the "you're thinking of Y. X is when (something X is definitely not)"

I definitely miss peak reddit, like 2015 or so. The community and thus the content was awesome. That experience doesn't exist today though, so I definitely don't miss reddit in the sense that I'd like to visit the site as it is today. I think Lemmy is getting there though. If we keep this up, we can remake what peak Reddit gave us.

I'll always miss the vastness of communities on reddit. There's just something for everyone.

What I'll never miss is the absurd way things are moderated.

i miss niche hobby and academic subreddits full of thoughtful reasonable people where insane nonsense was not tolerated or it was at least mocked relentlessly.

also circlejerk subs that mocked the big hobby subs where folks just endless posted photos of shit they bought and other people jerked them off on spending $1000s bling.

/r/ModernMoo , which (IIRC) is just some guy from Ireland who likes posting pictures of his cows. I unsubscribed from virtually every sub before I left, but I am pretty sure I am still technically subbed to that one.

Not really. A lot of it felt fake before AI content came along.

I miss forums like r/religiousfruitcake, r/confession, r/vent, r/rant, things like that, as well as certain fandom-specific forums; it feels cozier & more personal here, but it’s not as comprehensive.

Local community content, and content for less popular games like Quake

No. Because, although I don't have an account there anymore, but I still read there using Redlib.

I've gone back to reddit for medical stuff, there just isn't anywhere here for me to ask advice specific for Ehlers Danlos exercise adaptations, for example. I'd just get a bunch of generalized advice that'd be more harmful than helpful.

Yes. I miss lifting/fitness content

I miss a lot of Reddit content, especially local and niche content. However, what I really miss is a proper app with which to consume said content.

The content, engagement, and quality of conversations are much better here on Lemmy, and the platform feels considerably less saturated.

Unfortunately, what Reddit used to be, and what made it great, is long gone. That being said, the API changes were the nail in the coffin, not the sole reason for its decline. Reddit had already been on a downward trajectory for years before that.

The one thing I still appreciate about Reddit is that content gets refreshed much more frequently than it does on Lemmy. However, even that isn't enough to keep me there for more than a few visits a week, usually out of sheer boredom.

Stand up comedy clips, and my nation/cities subreddits for local news.

not really but I would love for some game and other niche communities to make the federation their main place to collaborate.

I miss Sprog. That's about it.

You can get it anywhere, but still.

I miss being able to hop into a forum for pretty much any individual game outside of the lousy Steam forums. Even the soulslike fans are a pretty small group here. And I tend toward fairly niche or complicated games with rather small player bases as it is.

yeah. mainly stuff related to proprietary/old software stuff like ios jailbreaking and hackintosh, windows modding.

/r/gameI'mcurrentlyplaying and /r/showI'mcurrentlywatching

I still lurk occasionally, but I maintain a strict look-but-do-not-touch policy with Reddit now. Never posting there again.

yes, the niche ones. most of them became meme, or slop, and policed by the "holier than thou" type of people. i had fun with whatisthisplant subs, occasionally i had fun identifying some unusual ,rare wildplants. there a couple of bad ones, like pokemon trading card game dedicated to scalping, like pokeinvesting or collecting.

I kinda miss r/singularity, except i am pretty sure the original one has gone rotten with ai slop worship.

There have been attempts to recreate it on the fediverse, but usualy just one person spamming posts of their vision of whats the sub is about, but it can be about so many things you really need a large community of different pespectives.

Loads, but it was getting worse steadily and definitely moving very fast to the agro algorithm.

I miss music updates and movie reviews. I tried looking for hiphop news and it was all insta posts, which I wont access

general agreeableness and niche interests. i feel like before the exodus there was more people willing to receive ideas and humanize others there than here now. it feels a lot more despairing to share my ideas and the indomitable human spirit here. (196 is much better here on that front but just 196 is nowhere near enough…)

people asking the right questions in this sub and the right questions in AskLemmy lol. at least all of the questions are a lot better here!

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

That my country’s subreddit is actually active, and the amount of casual conversation going on in there. I wouldn’t be surprised if that sub has about as many monthly active users as the entire Threadiverse, while the country sub here has like one post per day.

The endless, unhinged thirst posts of Queens of League. Gay sigh.

No, I've been on Lemmy and PieFed for so long that I forgot how it was on the shitty corporate site.

I appreciate our own niche content we have here. I don't need everything and everyone to be here.

I miss the college football subreddit most of all

I can't find porn with older people anywhere on Lemmy. There's no community at all.

!dumpsterdiving@reddit.com

The equivalent was on slrpnk.net *snif* and never caught on anyway.

r/ Comics, Blender mostly

I got into having ai agents make me sht, I now wish I had a semi positive about ai atmosphere to be around since I see how it's useful and want to see how other people use it and discuss it but I just don't see that happening here. More people should be using ai agents while it's cheap to make paid sht free.

Having it make the piracy app I always wanted for music and comics (crossplatform supports all other opensource apps extensions/repos and backups plus internetarchive), an rss app customized for what I like, etc. Nice that it is taking days instead of months to be usable, shit my slow ass would prob take years. I can't help but like ai while using these apps daily because they would never exist without them.

I just had it make a blender extension for me yesterday that just solved an issue I've had for 2 years and have been lowkey beggging them to implement. I even got decent traction on blender ideas but no one picked it up. I don't want to code, I want to play around in blender, now I have the feature I want and it works perfectly. (Presets for geometry node setting values)

I'm going to be a loner on this one, but I'm a big firearms guy and 2nd amendment supporter. Hard to be here when 99.99% are "eww guns". I ran a few subs for niche communities. I miss the really tight group where everyone actually have a ahit, and nobody trolled each other. It was more for educating newbies, and helping those getting into it. Those communities were way nicer than anything else I was a part of.