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
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’ve found https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek for you :)
https://sopuli.xyz/c/fountainpens@sopuli.xyz theres a fountain pens community
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.
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.
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
I was a big fan of /r/justrolledintotheshop.
A similar community here would be tons of fun!
I’ll mail a 10mm to whoever gets one off the ground
It’ll just get lost in the mail
Yes! I need my daily dose of WTF!!?
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
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.
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
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
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…).
#1 most missed sub, right here. HD was the calmest, most polite drama community I’ve ever been in. Genuinely nice folks.
- Eli5 and eli7 were nice.
- infrastructureporn, ruralporn etc. were also quite interesting.
- partyparrot was awesome.
- catswithjobs
- dndmemes was fun
Not what I’m missing but what I’ve already found that you were looking for:
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?
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.
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.
r/politics r/WorldNews r/anime_tiddies
askhistorians
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.
There IS an instance specifically for erotica/NSFW, I believe: https://federotica.com/
There’s actually multiple: https://lemmynsfw.com
That’s pretty neat! Thanks for sharing. NSFW in general has so much “inertia” in terms of users. If NSFW migrates elsewhere then that’s a sure sign of times changing (IMO).
I think there is also Lemmy NSFW, but I’m not sure of the exact instance url unfortunately
There are quite a few furry/yiff art on yiffit.net instance.
But, to view nsfw art on lemmy, afaik, you must log into a lemmy account on an instance that supports nsfw (notably, lemmy.ml doesn’t supoort nsfw, but beehaw.org does so you’re safe), you also need to enable nsfw in your account settings.
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.
The closest we have seems to be !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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.
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.
Lemmy.ml has both AskLemmy and ShittyAskLemmy.
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