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I'm genuinely so excited to see some of the more focussed communities blossom on this platform as they have on Reddit over the years. Which are your favourites and which do you think could succeed here?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

r/PCMasterRace r/GameDeals r/Fitness r/BuildAPC

Subs that have good guides and community info

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Here are the ones I'd most like to see:

  • AskScience
  • AskWomenOver30
  • auntienetwork
  • CozyPlaces
  • crowbro
  • EarthPorn
  • FinancialIndependence
  • fitness30plus
  • GenX
  • greyhounds and longboyes
  • Guitar, JustinGuitar, LearnGuitar, and guitarporn
  • hyenas
  • menopause
  • oldhagfashion
  • personalfinance
  • PetiteFashionAdvice
  • Philadelphia
  • rance
  • retrofuturism
  • RStudio
  • ShitAmericansSay
  • SimpleLiving
  • space
  • tattoos
  • TeenMomOGandTeenMom2 because I love my stupid guilty pleasure trash TV lol
  • TheGirlSurvivalGuide
  • xxfitness
  • And every single animal subreddit
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Both are a bit new and I still need moderators given the larger scale, but c/EarthPorn is now here, as is c/personalfinance

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Happy to report that r/menopause has moved to c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'd be keen for RStudio!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know we're talking about moving away from Reddit but I don't see this on your list and it sounds like it might be a match for your interests --have you taken a look at /r/badwomensanatomy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, that one's good too!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, definitely personalfinance!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some music subs I like to peruse like r/Headphones, HeadphoneAdvice, BudgetAudiophile, Vinyl etc. If anyone has some alts to suggest, let me know!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yep +1 for subs like /r/vinyl, /r/audiophile and /r/budgetaudiophile

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

r/piano r/Ukraine r/linux r/linuxphones r/philosophy r/geopolitics

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Linux is pretty well represented so far versus most other topics

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you want to see a specific community that doesn't exist, then set it up and post some content! If you want the type of places to hang out that you had on Reddit, you need to create it, nurture it, and grow it. There's no guarantee that Lemmy will be the place to land during the Reddit exodus, but it is a place to land, and a damn fine one at that. Putting my money where my mouth is, if you ever want to talk about calculators head on over to [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I created and mod two subs on reddit, and I'd love to see them make their way over here, but I've had a child since creating those subs, and I just don't think I have the time to do it anymore, sadly. Both subs seem on-board with the blackout on the 12th though, so maybe some of their members will find their way here. Maybe I'll even point them here with a sticky on the 12th...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Definitely do a sticky! I'd be doing that for sure if I had your mod powers 😊

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

One for home theaters, and one for audiophiles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I would love for r/synthDIY, r/AskElectronics and r/redneckengineering to move over to lemmy.

I think they would all do quite well here.

[–] Jumuta 1 points 1 year ago

very much agree about redneckengineering, I'm missing it so much

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

D&D/TTRPG subs like r/DMAcademy, r/3d6, r/Pathfinder2e, r/dndnext, r/dndbehindthescreen, r/dnd, r/dndmaps, etc.

Subs related to specific games I enjoy like r/Stellaris, r/Rimworld, r/crusaderkings, r/citiesskylines, r/slaythespire

Subs where design and cool information that interests me can be shared like r/vexillology, r/history, r/mapporn, r/dataisbeautiful, r/etymology, r/todayilearned, etc.

Neurodivergence spaces like r/Aspergers, r/AutisticWithADHD, and r/autism

Subs built around a certain kind of joke or humour like r/sbubby, r/expanddong, r/Polandball, r/highqualitygifs, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Neurodivergence spaces like r/Aspergers, r/AutisticWithADHD, and r/autism

definitled!
add r/HSP

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

games, mechanicalkeyboards, fountainpens, boardgames, music, indiemusic, audio, audiophile, headphones, ....

so many!

edit: photography (how’d I forget that one?)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This might be controversial, but I think the TwoX communities need space here. Don’t make them automatically appear on the front page, and hopefully their creators and moderators have the tools to keep them space but yeah, this site needs spaces like TwoXSex, TwoXChromosomes, TwoXPreppers, Beyondthebump, Mommit, Childfree, etc. I’m new here but didn’t find any of those on initial glance and like a great bar, you need women to show up and be seen/heard. Give them a safe space (see my comment on moderation tools) to transition to and I bet Lemmy would get lots of people to switch.

Also, to echo another person, we need a “master” list of communities, at least the umbrella ones. For instance /plants could be the umbrella for /botany, /trees, /gardening, etc.

Lastly, this site needs porn. Hear me out before you start judging. Nothing drives technology usage like porn. VHS and digital video are both huge because of porn driving widespread adoption. PornHub needs to spin up a server for its infinite catalog which ensures they get paid but also that minors aren’t being exploited.

Oh, feature ~~Request~~ request, some kind of incognito mode in the mobile apps which lets people view NSFW media without it being in their history. Also the app should disable built-in messaging options while in that mode to ensure fewer bad decisions and bad outcomes from accidental texts of disabled midget porn to various contacts. Just an idea I had.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe we can skip naming the women's communities after chromosomes this time around. TheGirlSurvivalGuide is another good subreddit to reference as far as nice women's support content. From what I recall, that support group gained in popularity after TwoXChromosomes was made a default subreddit.

Personally, I could do without the porn. I don't think every website needs to include porn. There are lots of other places to go for that content. So much of it features abuse of women and honestly it's quite refreshing when I find a site that doesn't feature it. I really hate unexpectedly coming across someone choking a woman. I wouldn't mind it so much if the bulk of it was adults actually sharing mutual joy together, but that's not generally how it goes and I hate to see so much suffering and exploitation normalized and spread across so many different places.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

As a Transfem individual I didn’t necessarily feel excluded from TwoX, but I could see how other transwomen or AMAB transfem people might feel that way.

Edit: I’d love to see Witches V Patriarchy here too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I would love witches v patriarchy too!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Archery is one of the main ones I'm missing. I'd create it myself if I could work out how 🤣

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Games, Archery, Mushrooms, Growing, Synthesizers, Drugs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm on fucker with bad sense of humor (and transbian tendencies) so I frequent these on Reddit (and thus would be nice to have them here) r/196 r/traaa r/GaySoundsShitposts r/AnarchyChess r/actuallesbians

Throw in some anarchist communities as a bonus.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

more animal pic subs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would like to see r/simracing/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I support anything creative, unfortunately I'm not seeing a lot of that yet. I build models, dioramas, scratch build buildings, etc.

I was tempted to start a general making community where all disciplines of making are supported, but as far as I can see on the app that isn't an option.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

SPORTS! The sports subreddits for specific leagues or teams were some of my most visited. I always hated r/NFL though because the mods only really allowed twitter links rather than legit discussion. I'm going to try and be as active as I can in the NFL and NBA communities here, and I might open some for my favorite teams.

This is actually a great opportunity to organically develop communities like r/NBAdiscussion but for other leagues. I always found reddit to be lacking a real football discussion subreddit, and r/NFL had such strict rules you couldn't even talk about relevant topics, such as EA and the NFL exclusive license (any Madden-related post would be auto-removed and told to post on r/Madden), and you also couldn't advertise an NFL discussion based sub anywhere either.

There's got to be an overlap between Lemmy users and sports fans! I can't be the only tech nerd who is interested in the fediverse and also loves American sports!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agreed. For me it’s motorsports. There’s an existing F1 community but it’s not very active. I’m hopeful that it’ll grow and we’ll see other communities form around it for other sports.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I prefer formuladank personally but idk if I'd be welcome here

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I just created a OnePiece community and hope it takes off, too. Help out by discussing and posting, please! :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm surprised to find there are no adult subs popping up.

I hit up my brother in law who is involved in the adult industry and he is going to spin up an instance that's super ok with adult content in the next day or so.

Let's face it, without porn tumbler disappeared, and I think Reddit will too when it bans anything nsfw

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

r/selfhosted is an amazing community full of passionate people that live for this type of federated community.

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