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.
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
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!!?
I would like to make a community for Québec City, bilingual at least
Also
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
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.
r/politics r/WorldNews r/anime_tiddies
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.
Super niche, but
These would need a separate instance due to NSFW and hosting costs.
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).
Not what I'm missing but what I've already found that you were looking for:
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.
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!
I'd love to see some art stuff; some of my favorite subreddits were:
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'll miss all the "spooky" communities, they are what brought me to Reddit in the first place way (way, way...) back in the day. Nosleep, creepy, aliens, thetruthishere, etc. There's lots of them, of varying quality these days but I regularly enjoyed the discussions and theorizing over the years.
Shout out to unresolved mysteries, that was a long term favorite of mine. At its best it was a respectful and helpful community of true crime researchers working to bring attention to cases. I am truly fascinated in evaluations of cases of misadventure, as well.
I might miss the movie discussions most, though. I love nothing more than picking apart an interesting story and getting under the obvious themes. I would regularly go directly to the official movie discussion threads after watching something I enjoyed, then search posts about it as well. I hope to find others here with the same interest because I'm sure that is something that can continue in the fediverse.
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.
Lemmy or at least Beehaw tends to favour more general communities; I wouldn't mind seeing a general notetaking/pkm/digital garden community where we can share our high-level methods and philosophies without getting too deep into specific software issues.
I was going to say buildapcsales, but it appears that someone created it in the last 24 hours.
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.
All the spanish speaking subs. I hope that this will be better place to build our corner.
Magic, card tricks, and judo. I didnt participate much but I'd love to see what they would be like in the Fediverse
I feel like there's a lack of communities dedicated to specific games. Sure, I can see communities for Pokemon and Zelda right now, albeit on lemmy.ml
But somehow, we don't have any major Minecraft communities? I liked the subreddits for modded Minecraft and Hermitcraft. Apart from that, the Terraria sub had its moments as well.
twobestfriendsplay, batmanarkham, hydrohomies, me_irl, adhdmeme, all the LoL subs, casual conversation, whowouldwin, repectthreads, handful of specific game subs.
bodyweightfitness - it was a great community, but I don't know if it is a great fit here. The community was really supportive of people working on their form for movements and offered great critique without being mean, so that would fit, but it is very fitness focussed and I don't know if that is a good fit.
keto/carnivore/zerocarb/ketoscience - this was a set of communities all centered around the dissemination of information on very low carb eating, low enough to ensure ketosis rather than glucosis for energy. It is interesting to look at the resources they had and what sorts of problems you could solve by searching, but without that long term backlog of other people's problems it would be hard to start up again. Maybe also a single community rather than 4 or more, but I don't know.
fixedbytheduet. I need someone to curate Tiktok for me...