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I was a big fan of /r/justrolledintotheshop.

A similar community here would be tons of fun!

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.

r/politics r/WorldNews r/anime_tiddies

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

• 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.

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...).

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.

I'd like a mobile gaming sub, something for psp, 3ds fans etc
edit: i found one !3ds@lemmy.world

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

SteamDeck

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.

• Eli5 and eli7 were nice.
• infrastructureporn, ruralporn etc. were also quite interesting.
• partyparrot was awesome.
• catswithjobs
• dndmemes was fun

Camping & Hiking related communities. Kind of hit me this morning that it was a major hole I have not yet filled from my time on Reddit.

I ended up making a community for that here, but I’m not sure if there’s already one out there. https://links.dartboard.social/c/campingandhiking

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

• 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)

bodyweightfitness - it was a great community, but I don't know if it is a great fit here. The community was really supportive of people working on their form for movements and offered great critique without being mean, so that would fit, but it is very fitness focussed and I don't know if that is a good fit.

keto/carnivore/zerocarb/ketoscience - this was a set of communities all centered around the dissemination of information on very low carb eating, low enough to ensure ketosis rather than glucosis for energy. It is interesting to look at the resources they had and what sorts of problems you could solve by searching, but without that long term backlog of other people's problems it would be hard to start up again. Maybe also a single community rather than 4 or more, but I don't know.

• 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)

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.