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.
https://sopuli.xyz/c/[email protected] theres a fountain pens community
That link didn’t work for me, it says the community couldn’t be found
https://sopuli.xyz/c/[email protected] this should work
I’ve found https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek for you :)
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
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/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/[email protected]
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.
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…).
- Eli5 and eli7 were nice.
- infrastructureporn, ruralporn etc. were also quite interesting.
- partyparrot was awesome.
- catswithjobs
- dndmemes was fun
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
askhistorians
I was a big fan of /r/justrolledintotheshop.
A similar community here would be tons of fun!
Yes! I need my daily dose of WTF!!?
I’ll mail a 10mm to whoever gets one off the ground
It’ll just get lost in the mail
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.
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.
duggarssnack
lmao pelican persuader… mhmmm that sounds familiar
Sorry, do you mean my username sounds like one from reddit or I spelled the sub wrong? 😅
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.
Oh, no! I hadn’t even heard that one, I just came up with a random name.
lol this was a funny conversation. have a great day!
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.
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.
r/politics r/WorldNews r/anime_tiddies
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.
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/
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.
