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
  • Gil (he/they)@beehaw.orgEnglish
    17·
    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.

  • zeWaardt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    I was a big fan of /r/justrolledintotheshop.

    A similar community here would be tons of fun!

  • Kepler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    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

    • emeraldheart@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      When I click these links it breaks my Lemmy app and doesn’t take me to the destination. Do you have any advice, or maybe an ideal app I should be using?

      • probodyne@feddit.ukEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        If you’re using jerboa then I’d recommend just going to a web browser and following the links their. Linking throughout the fediverse isn’t quite optimal yet. I did hear there was a change proposed to the UI to fix that at least on the web, jerboa would need an update after that I imagine.

  • PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgEnglish
    8·
    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.

    • firead@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I was wondering if someone was going to create a good fundiesnark community and if there would be enough interest here to keep it up.

      I lurked more than posted on those communities because I’ve seen how toxic they can easily become and was turned away by some of the drama or when the snark started focusing on personal characteristics but, having been raised fundamentalist, there were also a lot of really relatable threads where others would share similar experiences (and the snark communities were always much more active than the survivor/former communities).

  • heraldique@beehaw.orgEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    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.
  • KoolDewd123@beehaw.orgEnglish
    8·
    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…).

    • PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      #1 most missed sub, right here. HD was the calmest, most polite drama community I’ve ever been in. Genuinely nice folks.

  • ✨Abigail Watson✨English
    7·
    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.

  • winterstillness@beehaw.orgEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • styx@beehaw.orgEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago
    • Eli5 and eli7 were nice.
    • infrastructureporn, ruralporn etc. were also quite interesting.
    • partyparrot was awesome.
    • catswithjobs
    • dndmemes was fun
  • jay@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    Some of the ones I’ll be looking for replacements for:

    • 3d6, or equivalent discussion of DND/RPG builds and mechanics.

    • something like AskHistorians, which I know will be hard to replace considering the verification and moderation around it.

    • local city subreddits, I really liked having one for my home town or places I might visit.

    • honestly, I could see Chat taking the place of something like AskReddit.

  • ohokthatsgood@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    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.