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
  • Cowbob45@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Knickknack@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    I’ll miss all the “spooky” communities, they are what brought me to Reddit in the first place way (way, way…) back in the day. Nosleep, creepy, aliens, thetruthishere, etc. There’s lots of them, of varying quality these days but I regularly enjoyed the discussions and theorizing over the years.

    Shout out to unresolved mysteries, that was a long term favorite of mine. At its best it was a respectful and helpful community of true crime researchers working to bring attention to cases. I am truly fascinated in evaluations of cases of misadventure, as well.

    I might miss the movie discussions most, though. I love nothing more than picking apart an interesting story and getting under the obvious themes. I would regularly go directly to the official movie discussion threads after watching something I enjoyed, then search posts about it as well. I hope to find others here with the same interest because I’m sure that is something that can continue in the fediverse.

    • Kwakigra@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Getting started on Tiktok is rough. When I started I got nothing but the most stereotypical corporate-style “redneck” truck beer river bs (I grew up around actual proud rednecks). I had my sister send me a ton of avant-garde and weird stuff, so my algorithm now presents me with stuff I’ve never seen on any other platform. You can curate it yourself if you have the patience to wade through some truly awful trash for a while.

  • parlaptie@feddit.deEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I feel like there’s a lack of communities dedicated to specific games. Sure, I can see communities for Pokemon and Zelda right now, albeit on lemmy.ml

    But somehow, we don’t have any major Minecraft communities? I liked the subreddits for modded Minecraft and Hermitcraft. Apart from that, the Terraria sub had its moments as well.

    • BobQuasit@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      There’s the Lemmy Community Browser, of course. Getting that functionality INSIDE Lemmy should really be high on the to-do list for the devs - that, and making it easier to subscribe to communities that aren’t in your instance.

  • ✨Abigail Watson✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    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
    • Ramie@fedia.io
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • Kepler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    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

  • KoolDewd123@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    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…).

  • claudinec@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    The niche I haven’t found on Lemmy yet is coffee – we don’t need to replicate a subreddit for every brew method, but I’d love to have a general community for coffee bean reviews and brewing tips.

  • HiT3k@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago
    • Motorcycles
    • Leica
    • AMD
    • Bad_Cop_No_Donut
    • ConcealedCarry
    • CZFirearms/Guns
    • PublicFreakout
    • CrazyFuckingVideos
    • WatchPeopleDie (yeah, I know, it’s morbid. But having a NSFL Instance with communities for banned sub content would be great for lurking)
  • Gil (he/they)@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    My niche hobby and snark communities, like AmericanGirl, FundieSnarkUncensored, DuggarsSnark, and HobbyDrama. I hope to see them resurrected elsewhere with just as good of moderation and communities as they had on Reddit. I know a lot of websites say they don’t want drama but a well-moderated drama community is a public service that keeps fights contained.