For me it’s been communities like /r/buildapc, /r/buildapcforme, /r/buildapcsales, /r/gamedeals, and /r/consoledeals have been useful throughout the years.
For me, the real magic of Reddit was in hyperspecific niche communities full of hobbyist experts – or even professionals. Places like r/tolkienfans.
Unfortunately that is only possible when you have a very large user base; it’s the only thing still keeping me (a bit) on Reddit
/r/curvy . I mean, uh, /r/gardening. Yeah that one…
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’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
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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)
Knitting or a unified fiberarts would be fantastic.
There was a time when /r/youtubehaiku was one of my most visited subs. It would be great to see more short weird videos that give you a little chuckle.
Might not be the most popular option but a shitposting sub along the lines of 196/197/19684 is the major one for me. Would also love to see a 3dprinting community, but I kinda think something along the lines of technical hobbies/niches are a best case scenario for new services joining the fediverse.
Videos/mealtimevideos was a big thing for me. They kept me entertained while I ate lunch, lol.
“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.
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 can’t seem to find a movies one, best part of Reddit was looking up discussions of the recently released movies
/r/ExMormon
It’s been created on lemmy.world
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
My wishlist:
- Movies
- Europe
- Soccer
- Apple
Whatever hyper-specific place lets me rant about how everyone misuses PDFs. …And a BattleTech sub.
Heck, just generally, I wish Lemmy was more like… spin up a server and you’ve basically got a subreddit. Rather than having these big mostly-isolated attempts at being everything.
Sysadmin, networking, homelab
Begs the question. Is there a way to request a new community on beehaw?
!sysadmin@lemmy.ml Is gaining some traction
Thanks!. Found it just after the comment. There was a instance called infosec.pub the other day that seemed to have some promise. Seems down now as well.
Looks like infosec.pub is back online.
Yeah I sent the admin a note via dm and it was back this afternoon. I’m thinking just the web-ui was borked. Not sure. Also unsure if it was correlation or causation.
Nice, appreciate it. I wanted to check it out earlier but it was still offline. Your comment reminded me to check back.
Same here, it was nice to have a global water cooler to see what peoples experiences with various vendors tended to be, and just to hear what was going on.
