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…
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.
“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.
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
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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.
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.
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!
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 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.
The only community I really miss is r/todayilearned. Just some quick, interesting facts. Having an alternative here would be fantastic.
There are a few TIL communities! They’re off to a good start, too.
Definitely r/retrogaming and r/gamecollecting.
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
I’d love to see more communities that cover topics outside of the usual STEM / STEM-adjacent / typical redditor interests. I was on another reddit-alternative a few years ago called tildes and it was … shockingly like a microcosm of reddit. Like, it’s hard to describe how narrowly-focused, how stereotypically reddit, the userbase’s interests are. STEM, anime, gaming.
The music, literature, humanities, environment, city life and so on communities are excellent starts in that direction. And, despite the fact I’ll never read anything there, the sports community is equally valuable for the same reason.
That said, something for tabletop games would be cool, too. Preferably something not D&D/MtG because we all know they completely take over every space they touch (like my FLGS… RIP).
I’ll miss somewhere to complain about dating. In the past it’s been /r/OkCupid and more recently /r/Tinder
