For example, I used to follow a lot of subreddits for individual YouTube content creators, however, Lemmy doesn’t really have the size or culture to support this currently.

  • early_riser@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    I really miss the worldbuilding subreddit. There was always cool stuff to see and read because the community was big. The equivalent !worldbuilding@lemmy.world is much less active, and I seem to be the most frequent poster. I think conlanging is also underrepresented, but that’s even more niche.

    I also wish the threadiverse had a large and diverse-enough userbase to support the sort of hyper-specific subs that show pictures of a specific animal (or plant) doing a specific thing (looking at you, /r/treessuckingatthings). The community was even big enough to spawn subs based purely on inside jokes from other subs. I’m pretty sure the above mentioned /r/treessuckingatthings inspired /r/treessuckingonthings, and while I can’t confirm, /r/talesfromcavesupport was probably from a joke in /r/talesfromtechsupport.

    There were even multiple subs for the same content that would have slightly different community culture, and both subs would be reasonably active. /r/dogs didn’t allow pictures, so you had /r/picturesofdogs, not to mention active subs for every breed of dog, and often every coat pattern of said breed. Yellow, black, and chocolate labs all had their own active subs, and that’s on top of the regular labrador sub.

    As it is, Lemmy is too small, and the userbase is either tankies or almost but not quite tankies, repelling people who aren’t tankies.

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    It’s not even that niche imo, but just more music production content in general. There was an instance focused on this a few months ago, but it seems to have gone and not returned.

    On Reddit, you have communities of music makers around theory, various genres, various software, synths, and deals. It’s definitely a source of inspiration I miss.

  • e̶t̶t̶y̶b̶l̶a̶t̶a̶n̶t̶@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Circuit Bending!!! Moreso, just broad “soldering” representation; places for unique soldering projects. Soldering hacks, solder jobs to brag about, beginners tips etc. Would be cool to have niches within the community too for different “soldering genres” like circuit bending

      • feoh@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        Yeah definitely more musical genre related subs would be great. I loved /r/electronica and /r/dubstep before Reddit’s CEO made me wanna hurl and I stopped using their site.