I think an exodus to a new site allows an interesting opportunity to break from the restriction of traditions and create new communities. There's no reason the 196 clones have to be called '196'! (or worse, '197')
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I want to see all the niche game specific subs, or at least how they used to be. Reddit started going downhill recently, with lots of good discussion moving to discord, and subreddits just being flooded with memes. I hate searching for anything on Discord...
I actually have a list of them so just to jot down a few.
~~r/CozyPlaces~~ ~~r/coreboot~~ ~~r/rabbits~~ ~~r/VoidBunnies~~ ~~r/RoomPorn~~ ~~r/WritingPrompts~~ r/ MirrorsEdgeAesthetics ~~r/ Otterable~~ r/OnlinePreservation ~~r/lagoloaf r/GoldenAgeMinecraft r/FarmsofStardewValley~~ ~~r/EarthPorn~~ EDIT: ~~oh and ~~r/UsabilityPorn~~ https://old.reddit.com/r/UsabilityPorn/~~
That's about it for one's I know of at least, that aren't either hyper specific obscure or else some degree of NSFW, aside from SnakesWithHats but I actually got that started here. https://lemmy.ml/c/snakeswithhats
EDIT: I actually started a handful of these now, since I wanted to see em here so here's some now.
VoidBunnies GoldenAgeMinecraft UsabilityPorn FarmsofStardewValley Lagoloaf RoomPorn EarthPorn Otterable
EDIT 2: Also a Coreboot page since I didn't see anyone make that surprisingly.
Easily 50% of my time on Reddit was spent on either /r/Worldbuilding or /r/GoodWorldbuilding and I'd love to see a community like that here on Lemmy. My favorite part was always the prompts and discussions which helped me further build my world and read cool details about other people's ones.
Philosophy, Liturature and Science subs (there are numerous).
Reddit had a few awesome book communities like r/fantasy and r/printsf. Which I see a bit of here, but they still need to build up.
Grimdank. I don't play it but I love the Warhammer universe.
@fl1ghtless @geomusicmaker +1 for Grimdark, Also a vibrant Ireland community would be great, that's very active on Reddit, I also enjoy the BoardGames and SoloGaming communities
Offmychest and advice
r/squaredcircle r/formuladank
Cat communities are definitely a rabbit hole that is fun to go down on Reddit. Sport ones like r/NBA and r/Formula1 are some of my most used subreddits.
Most of my time on Reddit was spent on r/Rimworld, r/Huntshowdown and r/books. So, those. I'll probably engage on any graphic design and art adjacent subs too, when they pop up.
Edit: actually, I'd like to get something cleared up. Instances are akin to subreddits? Or are multiple boards inside one instance?
I def would like more activity on !rust@lemmy.ml , !uncle_bens@lemmy.ml, and !startrek@lemmy.ml.
Final Fantasy XIV. No, you have a problem!
Bit of a self promo but since this thread is getting traction and people coming here might be looking for subreddits alternatives...
If you're bi or like bisexual memes, it'd be great if you joined us over at !bi_irl@lemmy.ml :)
There are some subs that I'd rather see dead, and some that are just amazing, just based on their moderation and communities. r/fantasy is a shining beacon of light in an otherwise dark world, and with it a lot of the sister communities like WoT, Stormlight_archive and similar. They all have a positive feel, including and fair with just enough moderation without becoming heavy handed.
So in a sense it's not so much the content, but rather the community itself that I'd love to see persisting beyond reddit.
Self hosting
I'd like to see PS5, NintendoSwitch and ITManagers communities. I would start them, but do not have the time to moderate. :/
I need some more sports communities. NFL, CFB, football/soccer, NBA, MLB, Hockey, etc. A lot of the very niche ones like certain anime (r/onepiece, r/kingdom, r/hunterxhunter) or book (r/asoiaf, r/stormlight_archive) or game (r/deadbydaylight, r/stellaris, r/EU4) probably aren't going to get high enough populations to exist here so i don't expect it. But I need the sport specific ones
/r/boardgames and /r/emacs for me. I can get some of my boardgame fix on Mastodon but the more the better. I see that there is a !tabletop@lemmy.ml but not very active so far and not sure if the mod is still around.
R/German, r/ich_iel, r/justrolledintotheshop, r/oneorangebraincell, r/CuratedTumblr would be cool to see!
Noncredibledefense. There's one already but it's not active at all
My big three (right now) are CFB (college football), Golf, and Warhammer 40k. I think warhammer 40k and golf could easily transition as they arent as confederated. However CFB is a pretty tight community with its own ranking polls and a ton of stuff built by the moderators and communities. That said I'm pretty sure a lot of those polls utilize reddit APIs for user verification. And that could be a real problem if Reddit messes with the APIs too much.