Relaxed section for discussion and debate that doesn't fit anywhere else. Whether it's advice, how your week is going, a link that's at the back of your mind, or something like that, it can likely go here.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
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At first I read "would not like to see replicated" and I almost got upset, haha.
For me:
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.
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.
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...).
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
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
Not what I'm missing but what I've already found that you were looking for:
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.
askhistorians
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.
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!!?
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.
I would like to make a community for Québec City, bilingual at least
Also
I'm gonna miss r/world building a bunch, so much creativity. That, and other specialised hobby subs.
I'm also into worldbuilding! We can make our own worldbuilding community! We can even worldbuild some hookers and blackjack if we want to!
!worldbuilding@lemmy.ml
r/politics r/WorldNews r/anime_tiddies
I miss the r/Aerials subreddit. It was a niche for Aerial arts, like trapeze, silks etc. I would do it but I don't know how. That's the one I miss the most really, since the community is quite small as is, and where I live there's no community at all. I just made another account on Reddit for it a couple of weeks ago.
Other than that, I miss:
I wonder about relationship advice and if just a general /advice community would be good right now, until the user base grows to the point that more specific communities would be needed.
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.
Super niche, but
These would need a separate instance due to NSFW and hosting costs.
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.
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).
r/hamsters. r/hermitcrabs. r/locksport.
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.
Very niche, but would love to see the Obsidian md community find a home here; or something in the direction of general productivity and tools for it.
I created https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/pkms but I honestly don't know what I'm doing yet 😆
I'd love to see some art stuff; some of my favorite subreddits were:
The niche I haven't found on Lemmy yet is coffee – we don't need to replicate a subreddit for every brew method, but I'd love to have a general community for coffee bean reviews and brewing tips.
All the spanish speaking subs. I hope that this will be better place to build our corner. Also r/mylittlepony.
Something like a big community directory inside this thread would be nice.
There's the Lemmy Community Browser, of course. Getting that functionality INSIDE Lemmy should really be high on the to-do list for the devs - that, and making it easier to subscribe to communities that aren't in your instance.
DcComics and the marvel subreddit would be my biggest likes to see. I just don't have the knowledge to do it myself otherwise I would.
twobestfriendsplay, batmanarkham, hydrohomies, me_irl, adhdmeme, all the LoL subs, casual conversation, whowouldwin, repectthreads, handful of specific game subs.
Probably niche, but /r/skyrimmods. Nexus is a toxic hellhole, but that sub was relatively chill (although had the occasional bit of drama, admittedly).
I'd like a mobile gaming sub, something for psp, 3ds fans etc
Magic, card tricks, and judo. I didnt participate much but I'd love to see what they would be like in the Fediverse
fixedbytheduet. I need someone to curate Tiktok for me...