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
  • Kepler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year 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

  • Cowbob45@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    1 year 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.

    • parlaptie@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • ✨Abigail Watson✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    1 year 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
    • BobQuasit@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      5·
      1 year 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.

  • winterstillness@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    1 year 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.

  • PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    1 year 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
      1·
      1 year 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).

  • Monkeytennis@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago
    • UX research (there is an empty 2yo uxdesign sub…)
    • Artisan videos
    • Is it bullshit
    • UK personal finance
    • /r/menslib, specifically because the mod had really thoughtful takes
    • OCPD (a bit different from OCD subs)
  • HiT3k@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year 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)
  • MagicBarry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Magic, card tricks, and judo. I didnt participate much but I’d love to see what they would be like in the Fediverse

  • styx@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago
    • Eli5 and eli7 were nice.
    • infrastructureporn, ruralporn etc. were also quite interesting.
    • partyparrot was awesome.
    • catswithjobs
    • dndmemes was fun
  • Knickknack@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year 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.