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As someone with CPTSD, OCD and Bipolar + psychosis, definetely mental health subs. Particularly suicidewatch.

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Partyparrot. I just want to see more videos and photos of birds having a good time.

Like this guy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Let me know if you make or find one! Sounds fun!

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ask Historians had so much high quality content and there strict moderating ensured it stayed that wau

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Agreed on this, I love AskHistorians and even contributed a few times. I miss it a lot.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Local ones. My town, my country,...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just wish all the porn was over here.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

lemmynsfw alt account + lemmit.online = both reddit and lemmy content

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes! They’re just like us (divorced). Except birds.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

It looks like the bird's wearing a tie!! That makes me so happy for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

/r/liberalgunowners is missed. I could chat about guns and simple gunsmithing, see neat stuff I didn't know about, all without the toxic right-wing boolshit.

We had sane discussions about laws and responsible ownership, stuff like that. People were kind, no judgement, unless one was deliberately argumentative and/or acting a fool regarding safety. Even then, the mods would shut down the trolls (without the banhammer!) and the community would offer advice.

It was really nice.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I miss that one too. Being a liberal gun nerd in Texas is weird. All the gun shops, ranges, and conventions are more about right-wing politics, police worship, and fetishizing the Confederacy than the hobby.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AskLemmyAfterDark - it's healthy to have a place to have frank discussions about sexual health and safe kinkery.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

okbuddyphd, shittymobilegameads, pizzacrimes, garfieldwithoutgarfield, just all the really stupid obscure ones that give me a chuckle browsing through.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Various TV Show subreddits....they just haven't made it over here yet. Personally, I'd love to see a dedicated instance for TV and movies.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

r/ElectroBOOM which is Mehdi's official subreddit.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (11 children)

As a Windows sysadmin:

  • Sysadmin
  • SCCM
  • PowerShell
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (9 children)

To everyone missing a sub: open it on lemmy and be the first!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That just doesn't work.

There are many subs I wish they were on here and they aren't even if there is a community called like that, because nobody is there.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Lots of game specific subs have virtually no presence here. Makes me sad

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

r/subredditdrama - hands down one of my favourite sources of reddit content. r/drama isn't my jam, way too much fascist apologia there.

r/printsf exists already but the reddit community is much more active than lemmy, I'm hoping some of the sf/fiction communities on lemmy can rival it at some point.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hockey. Hockey is a huge part of my personality. I pretty much lived on r/hockey. I really miss having discussions about games, trades, players, etc. as well as sharing news.

There [email protected], but we need a lot more people there to get those discussions.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

/r/prisonhooch. Fucking hilarious some of the stuff people came up with. One guy made beer out of non-alcoholic beer. Another guy brewed peas into pea-not grigio. There were several people who brewed Powerade into wine. I really miss that subreddit.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (9 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AskHistorians. You can still get it on Lemmit, though.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

/bonehurtingjuice exists on here, but it's like 1 post a month instead of an endless stream of stupid bullshit humor that hits just right.

I also miss being on a platform that has the community for whatever game I might be playing at the moment, from popular ones to niche-as-fuck. Even CDDA's subreddit is still more active on reddit than Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Genshin fandom is much weaker here. I miss the endless *Mains communities with their useful guides, and the remarkable thirst of some of the groups :cough: /r/GenshinGays :cough:

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have epilepsy, and a few rare genetic disorders - there wasn't much of a healthy community for them on Reddit, especially my weirder shit, but I would love to see at least Epilepsy/Neurodegenerative/connective tissue disorder communities have a bigger presence. A few exist, but don't have posts, etc. My spouse has encouraged me to be the one to post, but I'm afraid of screaming into the void, just yet.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Writingprompts.

Lots of high quality written content there.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bonehurtingjuice and dogelore

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Homeowners, lawn care, local area specific communities.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

High Quality GIFs. There's a placeholder community but that's it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

R4R (or would it be L4L?)

Liked having conversations with people from various areas. Lemmy might not have the user base for it though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I wish the Framework community had moved over wholly. There's a lot more activity on Reddit than on Lemmy, and the comments are important, so the lemmit online bot can't replace it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Counter-Strike. Pixel and Android betas.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I miss the opera subreddit, crowbro, and beermoney. Those were all interesting and useful (I sure have made a lot of money from beermoney). However I'd really rather go without those than use Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I've wanted to open a string of video game subs on lemmy but i don't know what instance is best. It would have to be something that is ok with occasional porn and bad words (but not bigotry).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Tip of my tongue, Tip of my joystick and Sid Meier's Civilization. The first two subs have Lemmy communities ([email protected] and [email protected]) but, sadly, they lack activity. r/civ is one of the only subreddits i'm still using, because it has lots of unique guides not found anywhere else.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Good language learning communities, such as r/svenska

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