• invertedspear@lemm.ee
      15·
      12 days ago

      Active communities, period.

      Reddit started out without subreddits. Eventually grew too big for that so split into topical channels. Then the channel would get too big and a niche would subdivide out. When Lemmy started, or more so when there was the first big exodus from Reddit, all of that was recreated, but without the users. So we have a ton of dead communities that really need to be rolled up and cleaned up.

      • LostXOR@fedia.io
        6·
        12 days ago

        I like the comments here a lot more. Reddit’s comment ranking algorithm mostly prioritized highly upvoted comments, so the top comments on every thread would be the earliest ones, and anything much later would be lost in the sea. Here new comments get ranked higher than older ones even if they have fewer upvotes, which gives them a lot more visibility.

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          12 days ago

          they also allows too mmuch astroturfing that seems to digress from the discussion.

      • pdxfed@lemmy.world
        4·
        12 days ago

        I just had my first thread that I came across today, after nearly 2 years here, that was collaboratively funny, creative, diverse and made me remember what lots of talent in a thread can do. Not just anti-establishment/political circle jerking, or a few tech categories that get enough visibility to get participation.

        It was a /mildlyinteresting thread about giraffes being more likely to be struck by lightning. It immediately made me feel like I was finallly home again after 2 years and looking forward to more and more growth in Lemmy and the fediverse.

  • vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    17·
    12 days ago

    Really just the quantity of people, especially on ask subs. Lemmy just feels incredibly empty. And the breadth of topics people discuss here is extremely small.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      12 days ago

      It’s the worst thing about Lemmy and all it really does is make me more hesitant to squander potential friends by acting shitty, and less liable to spend hours chatting.

      • vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        11·
        12 days ago

        I could go on a sub like NoStupidQuestions or AskElectricans, etc where someone would ask a question about some super obscure topic I happen to be knowledgeable on. I could write a long, in-depth response which would then get dozens of responses and further questions. I’d be engaged in the same conversation about this topic or that for days.

        Here, it feels like 99% of conversations are about IT/programming, which is not my field, or about American politics.

  • octobob@lemmy.ml
    16·
    12 days ago

    r/electricians mostly

    I’m an industrial electrician and I don’t know a single soul in my life outside of my career who I can shoot the shit about electrical systems. Sometimes I just want to nerd out about it, or discuss UL and NEC codes, or sometimes just removed about old crap from decades ago you have to work on haha

    • can@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      12 days ago

      or sometimes just removed about old crap from decades ago you have to work on haha

      dot ml strikes again

      • QualifiedKitten@discuss.onlineEnglish
        3·
        12 days ago

        And here, I thought maybe it was a joke about all the stuff people deleted during the API drama, or maybe a joke about all the stuff getting removed in recent times, but nope, just good old ml censorship.

    • vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      12 days ago

      I was pretty active there, too! I had a long post about the differences between grounding and bonding that was stickied to the sidebar for a while. I think it’s still there…

      • octobob@lemmy.ml
        2·
        12 days ago

        Oh man welcome to my daily hell about this topic haha. We build, install, repair systems for the largest steel mills in the country. Think 100 foot long lineups all bussed together, all 100% custom. Some of them easily 6k to 12k amps.

        Painted surfaces can really sneak up on you, and we’ve changed how we bond panels like three times since I’ve been here for a couple years (worked on this type of equipment for about 10 tho). We used to not bond the sub to our common gnd bus on the floor, thinking the studs to the cabinet frame was enough. But with shielded cable, it needs a direct path to gnd on shield and gnd in one spot and for all shields to be tied together.

        If you wanna get into a really heady topic, see what happens when you put a piece of strut or gnd wire or another power wire in between parallel runs of power wire per phase on a three-phase AC system

        • vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          12 days ago

          If you wanna get into a really heady topic, see what happens when you put a piece of strut or gnd wire or another power wire in between parallel runs of power wire per phase on a three-phase AC system

          I did a tenant fit-out in a new building where the base-building was still under construction by a different electrical contractor when we started our buildout. The building had a penthouse switchboard that was fed with 5 parallel sets. Except the other EC pulled it as 1 phase per conduit. So they had 1 conduit with 5x a-phase conductors. Another with 5x b-phase, etc. Even 1 conduit with just 5x EGCs.

          I noticed it because we had to pull a new feed into their switchboard right before permanent power got turned on to the building. This was literally the day before the utility was supposed to turn on power, They were this close to turning on a 2000A feeder with a single phase per conduit. And it was all metal conduit. They’d have burned that whole damn building down.

          I told them they did it wrong and were going to start a fire. They didn’t believe me at first, so I had to escalate it to my GC’s safety coordinator, who had to bring it to their safety coordinator. They refused to call the utility to cancel turning on permanent power, so my safety guy and I had to intercept the utility guys when they showed up on site to tell them not to turn on power. Man was that other EC’s foreman PISSED, but he eventually did have to pull it all out and repull it correctly.

    • lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      8 days ago

      I do miss that subreddit. It was awesome just listening to people in an industry that I had some interest in, but hard to get into. (Or at least a long time.)

  • markovs_gun@lemmy.world
    14·
    11 days ago

    Askhistorians and other academic subreddits, along with specific fan communities. Lemmy is just too small to support a good community for a smaller video game, for example. That’s pretty much it though I was surprised at how little I missed reddit after switching

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
    12·
    12 days ago

    Diversity. People on R were less uniform.

    Maybe because they were more.

    When there was only one allowed opinion in a sub, then you could often find another sub with the same topics allowed, but the only one allowed opinion was another one.

    • 0x01@lemmy.ml
      5·
      12 days ago

      Reddit started out very similar to the current lemmy/fediverse audience. The nerds go first and eventually everyone else follows.

      The “When does the narwhal bacon” crowd was not diverse at all

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      now it bans you for any opinion as of recently, but more heaivly geared if your criticizing musk, or the right, because musk had complained to spez on 2 occasions to start a purge of accounts.