For me it’s been communities like /r/buildapc, /r/buildapcforme, /r/buildapcsales, /r/gamedeals, and /r/consoledeals have been useful throughout the years.
/r/curvy . I mean, uh, /r/gardening. Yeah that one…
Videos/mealtimevideos was a big thing for me. They kept me entertained while I ate lunch, lol.
I’d love to see communities about:
- crafting (fibre crafts like knitting and spinning in particular)
- classical music
- photography
- Latin
- history (r/askhistorians?)
- cats
- art
- cooking
- writing
- Star Trek
- menopause
- AuDHD
- birdwatching
- gardening
- reading
Knitting or a unified fiberarts would be fantastic.
A knitting and crochet community, regardless if its separated or together as a unified fiber arts community would be a godsend
I found !knitting@lemmy.world trying to get off the ground. (hope I got that link formatting right)
2nd Classical Music… It’s quite different from popular “music” and wouldn’t fit there.
Glad to report that r/menopause has moved to c/menopause@lemmy.world
Also wanted to add that a comics equivalent would be nice if there isn’t one already. I doubt many of the longtime artists would migrate fully, but it would at least be another platform that could get them greater reach.
I would love to see something like r/AskHistorians. It’s my favorite sub by far, and something I have really seen anywhere else. It’s heavily moderated (in a good way), and the answers are all high quality and sourced. It’s pretty much why I held on to my reddit account as long as I have.
Definitely a good one.
I am a Dark Souls addict and when I quit Reddit for good on July 1st, those are the subs I’ll really miss most. I’m also a history teacher and adjunct and really will suffer without /r/AskHistorians.
Oh, r/askhistorians is precious.
Maybe a History community on here would be nice, at least, until there are enough folks for more specific spots.
The thing is that askhistorians is, uniquely among subreddits, both staffed by professionals in the field and heavily moderated. It is an investment by credentialed, dedicated professionals, and would not work otherwise. I think something like that would be highly attractive, but I caution anyone against trying to resurrect it without access to those credentialed, dedicated professionals. Otherwise it becomes shittyaskhistorians but unironically; at worst it would be ancient aliens.
“Indie Products”- a place for people to nerd out about stuff made by small independent makers and for indie makers to find support maybe? I’m not a maker myself but I really enjoy buying from small businesses and finding out about cool products.
Hmmm …
Archery Motorcycles Old Photos in Real Life Spanish as a Second Language
I’m missing a lot of more specialised things, but these are pretty broad I think
Off the top of my head communities like
r/3rprinting r/instantpot r/todayilearned r/therewasanattempt r/space r/changemyview r/unpopularopinion
I want equivalents for:
- r/Fantasy
- r/tipofmytongue (iirc that name - the one for helping people find shit they’ve forgotten)
- maybe r/52books (it produces too many simple posts to just go in r/books, not sure if the same would be true here)
- r/vegetarian
Edit: r/fantasy is the biggest one for me. In effect the subreddit is really more for SciFi and Fantasy, both - and other speculative fiction - and they have a yearly speculative fiction bingo card that’s really fun to participate in. It’s mostly books in practice but is not exclusively about books.
Disability and anything cat themed
Something pet related seems pretty apt. Surely it already exists but I haven’t seen anything yet haha Edit: it does exist
What’s it’s called?
Animals and pets
I’d like to see a book suggestion community with a decent number of requests. Something like r/booksuggestions or r/suggestmeabook. Most of what I did on Reddit was recommend books in response to requests.
I wouldn’t mind seeing a New England community, either. Or Massachusetts one. I’d start one up, but I don’t know if I could handle the moderation responsibilities!
I glanced briefly, but couldn’t find a topic on it. What’s the stance on NSFW (i.e. porn, art, etc.)?
Most instances (servers) don’t allow porn because it needs constant content moderation (laws against CP and other nasty stuff). They simply don’t want the liability. But it’s not forbidden to create a server that allows/hosts pornographic stuff. I bet we will see some porn servers in the near future.
Thanks for clearing it up. I imagined moderated content along the lines of reddit.
Definitely r/retrogaming and r/gamecollecting.
Looks like no one’s mentioned it… I’d like a British community. Maybe for discussing news in our corner of the world, maybe just for casual talk like /r/CasualUK.
!ukcasual@lemmy.world is awaiting your arrival!
Perhaps a community for people over 50. (Asking for a friend. Honestly.)
