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
    10·
    3 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.

    • emeraldheart@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      3 years ago

      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.

      • neamhsplach@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        3 years ago

        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.

    • emeraldheart@beehaw.orgEnglish
      0·
      3 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?

  • jay@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    3 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.

  • winterstillness@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    3 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.

  • Cowbob45@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    3 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.

  • Grassgrowz@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    3 years ago

    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.

  • claudinec@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    3 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.

  • styx@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    3 years ago
    • Eli5 and eli7 were nice.
    • infrastructureporn, ruralporn etc. were also quite interesting.
    • partyparrot was awesome.
    • catswithjobs
    • dndmemes was fun
  • PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    3 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.

  • ohokthatsgood@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    3 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.

  • Knickknack@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    3 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.