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) ( @kalanggam@beehaw.org ) English21•1 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.
- AnEilifintChorcra ( @AnEilifintChorcra@sopuli.xyz ) English13•1 year ago
https://sopuli.xyz/c/fountainpens@sopuli.xyz theres a fountain pens community
- tom ( @tom@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) English1•1 year ago
That link didn’t work for me, it says the community couldn’t be found
- AnEilifintChorcra ( @AnEilifintChorcra@sopuli.xyz ) English1•1 year ago
https://sopuli.xyz/c/fountainpens@sopuli.xyz this should work
- Kory ( @Kory@lemmy.ml ) English11•1 year ago
I’ve found https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek for you :)
- emeraldheart ( @emeraldheart@beehaw.org ) English6•1 year 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 ( @neamhsplach@beehaw.org ) English7•1 year 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.
- godofpainTR ( @godofpainTR@lemmy.world ) English2•1 year ago
Here’s one sub I found for mechanical keyboards
I’m starting to quite like this whole fediverse thing. I’m linking one community in one instance in another instance, while accessing all that from a third different instance, and it all works seamlessly
- zeWaardt ( @zeWaardt@lemmy.world ) English18•1 year ago
I was a big fan of /r/justrolledintotheshop.
A similar community here would be tons of fun!
- kool_newt ( @kool_newt@beehaw.org ) English6•1 year ago
Yes! I need my daily dose of WTF!!?
- perkele ( @perkele@sopuli.xyz ) English6•1 year ago
I’ll mail a 10mm to whoever gets one off the ground
- firead ( @firead@lemmy.world ) English2•1 year ago
It’ll just get lost in the mail
- KoolDewd123 ( @KoolDewd123@beehaw.org ) English18•1 year ago
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…).
- PelicanPersuader ( @PelicanPersuader@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
#1 most missed sub, right here. HD was the calmest, most polite drama community I’ve ever been in. Genuinely nice folks.
- Kepler ( @Kepler@lemmy.world ) English14•1 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
- dystop ( @dystop@lemmy.world ) English1•1 year ago
Recreated maliciouscompliance (one of my favorite communities)! Mostly reposts for now, but OC should trickle in slowly.
Try joining from one of the links below:
/c/maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world
https://lemmy.world/c/maliciouscompliance
Or type the following in the search bar at the top: !maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world
- KNova ( @knova@links.dartboard.social ) English13•1 year ago
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
- styx ( @styx@beehaw.org ) English12•1 year ago
- Eli5 and eli7 were nice.
- infrastructureporn, ruralporn etc. were also quite interesting.
- partyparrot was awesome.
- catswithjobs
- dndmemes was fun
- heraldique ( @heraldique@beehaw.org ) English11•1 year ago
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.
- Elle ( @ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world ) English2•1 year ago
You may have already found these two by now, but just in case, there’s a fuck cars community on a couple instances:
https://lemmy.world/c/fuckcars
https://lemmy.ca/c/fuckcars@lemmy.ca
- Kory ( @Kory@lemmy.ml ) English11•1 year ago
Not what I’m missing but what I’ve already found that you were looking for:
- emeraldheart ( @emeraldheart@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year 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?
- probodyne ( @probodyne@feddit.uk ) English6•1 year ago
If you’re using jerboa then I’d recommend just going to a web browser and following the links their. Linking throughout the fediverse isn’t quite optimal yet. I did hear there was a change proposed to the UI to fix that at least on the web, jerboa would need an update after that I imagine.
- TheSwampBitch ( @TheSwampBitch@feddit.de ) English11•1 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
- firead ( @firead@lemmy.world ) English3•1 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.
Yes! I used to give advice over on r/advice and r/relationship advice. I miss that!
- PelicanPersuader ( @PelicanPersuader@beehaw.org ) English10•1 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.
- firead ( @firead@lemmy.world ) English3•1 year ago
I was wondering if someone was going to create a good fundiesnark community and if there would be enough interest here to keep it up.
I lurked more than posted on those communities because I’ve seen how toxic they can easily become and was turned away by some of the drama or when the snark started focusing on personal characteristics but, having been raised fundamentalist, there were also a lot of really relatable threads where others would share similar experiences (and the snark communities were always much more active than the survivor/former communities).
- aceshigh ( @aceshigh@lemmy.world ) English1•1 year ago
duggarssnack
lmao pelican persuader… mhmmm that sounds familiar
- PelicanPersuader ( @PelicanPersuader@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
Sorry, do you mean my username sounds like one from reddit or I spelled the sub wrong? 😅
- aceshigh ( @aceshigh@lemmy.world ) English2•1 year ago
duggarssnark made up a nickname for someone, the pelicans. i thought you were referencing that since you listed duggarssnark as a sub you’d miss.
- PelicanPersuader ( @PelicanPersuader@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Oh, no! I hadn’t even heard that one, I just came up with a random name.
- aceshigh ( @aceshigh@lemmy.world ) English2•1 year ago
lol this was a funny conversation. have a great day!
- Grassgrowz ( @Grassgrowz@beehaw.org ) English10•1 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.
- ohokthatsgood ( @ohokthatsgood@beehaw.org ) English9•1 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.
- kopper [they/them] ( @ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•1 year ago
The closest we have seems to be !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- SynapticOddity ( @SynapticOddity@lemmy.ml ) English9•1 year ago
askhistorians
- jay ( @lunarshot@beehaw.org ) English8•1 year ago
Some of the ones I’ll be looking for replacements for:
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3d6, or equivalent discussion of DND/RPG builds and mechanics.
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something like AskHistorians, which I know will be hard to replace considering the verification and moderation around it.
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local city subreddits, I really liked having one for my home town or places I might visit.
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honestly, I could see Chat taking the place of something like AskReddit.
- Mac ( @Mac@lemmy.world ) English3•1 year ago
Lemmy.ml has both AskLemmy and ShittyAskLemmy.
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- blade_imaginato ( @blade_imaginato@lemmy.one ) English8•1 year ago
r/politics r/WorldNews r/anime_tiddies