Asklemmy

It's not so much the communities as the number of posts, I open Lemmy and see posts I saw yesterday only half way down the front page.

Communities for specific video games, like /r/wow or /r/ffxiv

I miss the local subs for my city and other local communities around me. They were great for keeping up with what was going on. I can't stand all the pissing and moaning on Nextdoor. There are a couple of Facebook groups but I refuse to install any Meta apps on my phone.

Right now I am missing the hyper specific cat subreddits like catswhoyell and catsinbusinessattire. There are so many that I loved to revisit every 2-3 months and see what was there

For me it’s just the smaller gaming ones that aren’t as active or not here, I enjoyed browsing through specific WoW (this isn’t so active), ESO or Diablo subs.

My home page is already in fairly nice shape with “general” interests

Ask Science Fiction, Who Would Win, The Maw Installation, and similar discussion boards for in-universe questions about fiction.

For those who aren't familiar, Ask Science Fiction (more accurate parsed as Ask Science: Fiction) is a board for asking and answering questions about fiction from an in-universe perspective. Questions and answers don't necessarily have to be role-played, but they should assume the internal logic of the universe in reference. Answers from an out-of-universe perspective ("George Lucas didn't decide that Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker were the same person until later") are against the rules, though there's some allowance for media that's super-meta and can't be answered otherwise.

Who Would Win is a board for posing hypothetical scenarios, often but not exclusively about fictional characters or factions. Think "Who would win in a fight between Superman and Batman?". Evidence in the form of references to specific canon media is encouraged.

The Maw Installation (and similar places like the Daystrom Institute for Star Trek) is essentially Ask Science Fiction, but specifically for the Star Wars franchise. I find that boards like this can encourage interesting world-building that makes the original text feel richer, as well as more in-depth critique of the text as media.

I'm sure some of these exist in some form in Lemmy, but I'm still looking for them!

I miss the niche trade subs, like r/electricians, r/construction, and r/machinists. Tons of great content on their subs that just isn’t here on Lemmy since most people on those subs don’t skew as techy as most Lemmy users.

Still not worth supporting Reddit though.

Not missing the subreddit itself, but /r/tvtoohigh is a great symbol for how even the most obscure niche subreddits had a steady flow of content.

Best of Redditor Updates 😭

Trade communities like construction, electricians (my trade), and oshaviolations.

Daddit. It was such a wholesome and helpful community

I miss all my fun niche subs. Like mirror forsale, were it's just funny pics of people who sell mirrors or take pics in front of mirrors.

Purple coco, sub for plugs in strange places.

Chairsinwater, its chairs in water and the flair was always NSFW.

There more but those are the top ones I miss.

The art subs, like r/art, graphic design, art nouveau, and all the AI art subs. I was mostly a lurker on those ones but they were really great eye candy.

Also things like earth porn and the nature subs. Was nice to see cool places in my feed.

And the local community subs. I think that will take a long time to develop (if it ever does). I used to get a lot of news on city events from Reddit and without Boost on my phone I'm feeling out of the loop

Battlestations exists, but has no content. I just made the first post in order to help stir up some engagement! 😃

The subresdit /r/frugalmalefashion was really incredie for a while there, but it thrived in users posting good deals regularly and fair moderators keeping out inappropriate content (i.e. scams, predatory subscription services, and comments like "this isn't truly frugal!"). /r/buildapcsales was the same way

Writingprrompts. Such excellent quality content there.

The subs for games like Street Fighter, the sub for fight sticks, the kind of semi-niche gaming communities that snowballed because of Reddit's ubiquity

AskHistorians

A lot of craft subs, r/embroidery, r/weaving, r/pottery etc. Also r/twosentencehorror.

r/NFL, r/CFB, and r/Hockey. They all kinda exist here but are nowhere active enough.. I miss game threads with thousands of comments.

I miss aita - I'm not sure if there's a similar one on here

MaybeMaybeMaybe, OddlySatisfying, ThatPeelingFeeling, CrabCats

I miss r/badtaxidermy It's my weird joy in life to see terrible taxidermied animals.

A bunch of morbid and medical subs like morbid curiosity, medizzy, medicalgore, thegrittypast. I always have found those subs super interesting and filled with discussion about stuff I don't usually encounter in my day to day life so I've been missing that.

1. Personal finance, the EU version of it and the German version of it
2. Women centric communities

My hometown..... great community on Reddit. Pretty much zilch over here so far.

r/korea, r/TwoXChromosomes

My local city's subreddit. Someone's made one but no one is posting. It was the main way I found out what was going on.

The dry-herb vaping communities haven't really transitioned very well, and I'm too lazy to get back into proper community building and moderation after having all my accounts permabanned on reddit. For now I am just sticking to the 420vapezone discord.

There's a Pokemon Go subreddit called TheSilphRoad that was basically the place for in depth discussion on the game. Such subs here have been quiet and shallow.

stupiddovenests

r/noncredibledefense. There are a few inactive Lemmy instances of it and the Discord server is cool, but they both pale in comparison to the subreddit

Prequelmemes, renfaire, antiwork, bikinibottomtwitter, raimimemes, insanepeoplefacebook, oldpeoplefacebook, Disneyvacation/notdisneyvacation, earthporn, novontextpics, marvelstudios.

I kinda miss collapse and acab for doom scrolling.