For me it’s been communities like /r/buildapc, /r/buildapcforme, /r/buildapcsales, /r/gamedeals, and /r/consoledeals have been useful throughout the years.

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    I would love to see something like r/AskHistorians. It’s my favorite sub by far, and something I have really seen anywhere else. It’s heavily moderated (in a good way), and the answers are all high quality and sourced. It’s pretty much why I held on to my reddit account as long as I have.

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    Hmmm …

    Archery Motorcycles Old Photos in Real Life Spanish as a Second Language

    I’m missing a lot of more specialised things, but these are pretty broad I think

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    Off the top of my head communities like

    r/3rprinting r/instantpot r/todayilearned r/therewasanattempt r/space r/changemyview r/unpopularopinion

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    I want equivalents for:

    • r/Fantasy
    • r/tipofmytongue (iirc that name - the one for helping people find shit they’ve forgotten)
    • maybe r/52books (it produces too many simple posts to just go in r/books, not sure if the same would be true here)
    • r/vegetarian

    Edit: r/fantasy is the biggest one for me. In effect the subreddit is really more for SciFi and Fantasy, both - and other speculative fiction - and they have a yearly speculative fiction bingo card that’s really fun to participate in. It’s mostly books in practice but is not exclusively about books.

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    I’d love to see communities about:

    • crafting (fibre crafts like knitting and spinning in particular)
    • classical music
    • photography
    • Latin
    • history (r/askhistorians?)
    • cats
    • art
    • cooking
    • writing
    • Star Trek
    • menopause
    • AuDHD
    • birdwatching
    • gardening
    • reading
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    “Indie Products”- a place for people to nerd out about stuff made by small independent makers and for indie makers to find support maybe? I’m not a maker myself but I really enjoy buying from small businesses and finding out about cool products.

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    Any and all of the sports subreddits. Nothing brings more user engagement (positive and negative) than game threads for sporting events. The sooner we can get a thriving sports community going, the faster Lemmy or any social media app will grow.

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    Also wanted to add that a comics equivalent would be nice if there isn’t one already. I doubt many of the longtime artists would migrate fully, but it would at least be another platform that could get them greater reach.

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    /r/guitar, for those of use who struggle (and suck) at self-learning this amazing instrument.

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    I’d like to see a book suggestion community with a decent number of requests. Something like r/booksuggestions or r/suggestmeabook. Most of what I did on Reddit was recommend books in response to requests.

    I wouldn’t mind seeing a New England community, either. Or Massachusetts one. I’d start one up, but I don’t know if I could handle the moderation responsibilities!

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    local geographic area. ought to be easy to create and find users. useful too!

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    For me, the real magic of Reddit was in hyperspecific niche communities full of hobbyist experts – or even professionals. Places like r/tolkienfans.

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      Unfortunately that is only possible when you have a very large user base; it’s the only thing still keeping me (a bit) on Reddit