A lot of the subs that I can’t find as active on this platform
Yes. I keep checking https://sub.rehab for my niche communities.
The problem typically isn’t that the community doesn’t exist – the problem is that it does exist but is empty or mostly empty.
Be the change you want to see. I noticed that every time I post even a small thing on those empty communities, people come and contribute.
It’s mostly an empty dancefloor issue, nobody wants to be the first
I miss that thing where any time there was a difficult question, someone with real expertise would jump into the comments. And sometimes it was someone who literally wrote the book on the subject. Sometimes it was the person who invented the thing being talked about. It was crazy. It happened all the time. It seemed like everyone was on Reddit and you could really trust you were getting solid answers.
Fwiw, I’ve been able to get good advice on a few things already. I had a geologist here give me details on a rock I found at the beach, for instance.
Niche communities full of useful info. The subreddit for a game I’m playing rn was the one of the largest sources of information for the game, and now the subreddit is privated and all that info is inaccessible
Match threads on sporting communities with hundreds of people commenting during the match.
This is it for me, too. The sports talk on Reddit is the best I’ve encountered anywhere. But it took a long time for Reddit to get there.
Right now, Lemmy reminds me of the early days of Reddit: tech talk over my head but inspiring me to install Linux on an old laptop, and critical thinking instead of jumping to conclusions.
I really hope something like fanaticus.social can get more popular
I miss this too. I’m usually in too much of a hurry when writing a reply because I get eager, so I make a lot of mistakes.
I can’t just let them stand and come off as an uncultured swine*, but the “edited” mark implies that I might have “altered the record” or something 🙁
*I’m not this critical about other people making mistakes, just myself lol
