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
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    81 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.

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    81 year ago

    I was a big fan of /r/justrolledintotheshop.

    A similar community here would be tons of fun!

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    71 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.

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    71 year 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.

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    71 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

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    61 year ago

    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
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      21 year ago

      I wonder about relationship advice and if just a general /advice community would be good right now, until the user base grows to the point that more specific communities would be needed.

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    61 year 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.

  • Gil (he/they)
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    61 year 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.

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    61 year ago

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

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    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
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      11 year ago

      There’s one called !sketchbook

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    51 year 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.

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    41 year ago

    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.

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    41 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 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.