Just a working list - feel free to add to it. I realize that some of these might already exist, and I just missed them. Here’s what I’ve got so far:
- Book suggestions
- Obscure Media
- New England
- Massachusetts
- separate communities for every other state too
- Mildly interesting
- Antiwork
- Anti-Amazon
- buy it for life
I was a big fan of /r/justrolledintotheshop.
A similar community here would be tons of fun!
Yes! I need my daily dose of WTF!!?
I’ll mail a 10mm to whoever gets one off the ground
It’ll just get lost in the mail
r/HobbyDrama. Fantastic reading material when you’re bored. I actually still have a backlog of saved posts on Reddit that I want to get through from there (preferably sooner rather than later…).
hooray my first federated platform comment, spent over a decade on Reddit and happy something else looks to be growing big enough to be a viable alternative.
I tend to love long form text based subs. Ones I particularly enjoy where I can’t currently scratch their respective itch anywhere else on the Internet:
/r/changemyview /r/bestofredditorupdates /r/legaladvice (mainly for the (/r/bestoflegaladvice goodies) /r/bestof /r/maliciouscompliance /r/prorevenge /r/amitheasshole and all of the /r/talesfrom[profession] subs
yeah I know half of these are often glorified fiction writing subs but I enjoy the stories regardless
At first I read “would not like to see replicated” and I almost got upset, haha.
For me:
- Fountain pens
- Communities for different countries/regions or different language-speakers - on Reddit, I often lurked /r/de, /r/Philippines, etc.
- Mechanical keyboards
- Woodworking
- Oddly satisfying
- Star Trek
- Battlestations
I definitely second BIFL, Antiwork, and different communities for U.S. states, as I don’t often get to connect with other people from Texas on the Fediverse.
I’ve found https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek for you :)
https://sopuli.xyz/c/fountainpens@sopuli.xyz theres a fountain pens community
That link didn’t work for me, it says the community couldn’t be found
https://sopuli.xyz/c/fountainpens@sopuli.xyz this should work
Yes to the language-learning one! I really need to have a space to support my goal of learning German. I’m already really missing that resource that I had on Reddit.
r/france was really fun to hang around for language learning reasons! I loved their sense of humour. Their thread about whether the subreddit should blackout (i.e. strike) over what was going on was absolutely hilarious. It went something like:
Mods: Hey r/france we’re wondering whether we should strike on… Redditors: Yes.
Here’s one sub I found for mechanical keyboards
I’m starting to quite like this whole fediverse thing. I’m linking one community in one instance in another instance, while accessing all that from a third different instance, and it all works seamlessly
- Eli5 and eli7 were nice.
- infrastructureporn, ruralporn etc. were also quite interesting.
- partyparrot was awesome.
- catswithjobs
- dndmemes was fun
I would like to make a community for Québec City, bilingual at least
Also
- r/webdev
- R/fuckCars
- R/ionic or r/capacitor . These are from the same company.
You may have already found these two by now, but just in case, there’s a fuck cars community on a couple instances:
https://lemmy.world/c/fuckcars
https://lemmy.ca/c/fuckcars@lemmy.ca
I miss the r/Aerials subreddit. It was a niche for Aerial arts, like trapeze, silks etc. I would do it but I don’t know how. That’s the one I miss the most really, since the community is quite small as is, and where I live there’s no community at all. I just made another account on Reddit for it a couple of weeks ago.
Other than that, I miss:
- r/raisedbynarcissists
- r/marvelstudio
- r/relationship_advice
- r/foodporn
- r/cozyplaces
- r/cooking
I wonder about relationship advice and if just a general /advice community would be good right now, until the user base grows to the point that more specific communities would be needed.
r/politics r/WorldNews r/anime_tiddies
Super niche, but
- scalie/furry/yiff art (yeah yeah, I know)
- anime tomboys (also yeah yeah, I know)
These would need a separate instance due to NSFW and hosting costs.
There IS an instance specifically for erotica/NSFW, I believe: https://federotica.com/
There’s actually multiple: https://lemmynsfw.com
I think there is also Lemmy NSFW, but I’m not sure of the exact instance url unfortunately
That’s pretty neat! Thanks for sharing. NSFW in general has so much “inertia” in terms of users. If NSFW migrates elsewhere then that’s a sure sign of times changing (IMO).
There are quite a few furry/yiff art on yiffit.net instance.
But, to view nsfw art on lemmy, afaik, you must log into a lemmy account on an instance that supports nsfw (notably, lemmy.ml doesn’t supoort nsfw, but beehaw.org does so you’re safe), you also need to enable nsfw in your account settings.
I really wish something like /r/Fitness or /r/Bodyweightfitness could gain traction on here! I miss the daily question threads and discussions about exercises, techniques, routines and things like that.
I’m gonna miss r/world building a bunch, so much creativity. That, and other specialised hobby subs.
I’m also into worldbuilding! We can make our own worldbuilding community! We can even worldbuild some hookers and blackjack if we want to!
You can subscribe to the main one by using: !worldbuilding@lemmy.ml
Kinda dumb but some of the “obscure humor” (for a lack of a better term) subreddits I kinda miss, like r/comedyheaven, r/skamteboard, r/oldpeoplefacebook, etc. The meme communities I’ve found on the fediverse, while totally fine, don’t really scratch the same itch for me lol.
The closest we have seems to be !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
fixedbytheduet. I need someone to curate Tiktok for me…
I want to know what do you guys think of national/local subreddits? I found it pretty interesting to see the different national subs on Reddit like the German one or the swedish one or the french one, I found that my own nation’s sub would sometimes give me information about something before it hit the local news.
We already have some regional instances with the various feddits, so I guess we’re covering that niche from that angle. Granted, I don’t know of any city-level communities, but lemmy as a whole would need to be bigger for such communities to be really viable.
I’d love to see some art stuff; some of my favorite subreddits were:
- minipainting
- sewing
- we are the music makers
- sketching
- art timelapse
- amateur room porn
There’s one called !sketchbook
Subs I enjoyed having on my home:
- sewing
- jumprope
- icecreamery
I’ve not tried searching out replacements yet, so don’t know if there are any.
