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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.

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.

r/politics r/WorldNews r/anime_tiddies

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

I'm gonna miss r/world building a bunch, so much creativity. That, and other specialised hobby subs.

I miss the r/Aerials subreddit. It was a niche for Aerial arts, like trapeze, silks etc. I would do it but I don't know how. That's the one I miss the most really, since the community is quite small as is, and where I live there's no community at all. I just made another account on Reddit for it a couple of weeks ago.

Other than that, I miss:

• r/raisedbynarcissists
• r/marvelstudio
• r/relationship_advice
• r/foodporn
• r/cozyplaces
• r/cooking

fixedbytheduet. I need someone to curate Tiktok for me...

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.

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.

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

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.

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...).

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.

Very niche, but would love to see the Obsidian md community find a home here; or something in the direction of general productivity and tools for it.

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.

Something like a big community directory inside this thread would be nice.

I was a big fan of /r/justrolledintotheshop.

A similar community here would be tons of fun!

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.

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

• Comic books
• Book club

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.

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.

• 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)

• 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)

I miss r/Coffee and r/TaylorSwift. Maybe I'll start them and moderate.

askhistorians

Probably niche, but /r/skyrimmods. Nexus is a toxic hellhole, but that sub was relatively chill (although had the occasional bit of drama, admittedly).