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)@beehaw.org
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    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.

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    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.
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    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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    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…).

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      #1 most missed sub, right here. HD was the calmest, most polite drama community I’ve ever been in. Genuinely nice folks.

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    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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      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?

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        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.

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    • Eli5 and eli7 were nice.
    • infrastructureporn, ruralporn etc. were also quite interesting.
    • partyparrot was awesome.
    • catswithjobs
    • dndmemes was fun
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    I was a big fan of /r/justrolledintotheshop.

    A similar community here would be tons of fun!

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    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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    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.

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      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.

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    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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      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).

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    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.