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I think an exodus to a new site allows an interesting opportunity to break from the restriction of traditions and create new communities. There's no reason the 196 clones have to be called '196'! (or worse, '197')

Reddit had a few awesome book communities like r/fantasy and r/printsf. Which I see a bit of here, but they still need to build up.

Easily 50% of my time on Reddit was spent on either /r/Worldbuilding or /r/GoodWorldbuilding and I'd love to see a community like that here on Lemmy. My favorite part was always the prompts and discussions which helped me further build my world and read cool details about other people's ones.

!privacyguides@lemmy.one also exists!

Art, art related. Watercolour. Oils. Sketching. Urban sketching. Etc

Philosophy, Liturature and Science subs (there are numerous).

I def would like more activity on !rust@lemmy.ml , !uncle_bens@lemmy.ml, and !startrek@lemmy.ml.

I want to see all the niche game specific subs, or at least how they used to be. Reddit started going downhill recently, with lots of good discussion moving to discord, and subreddits just being flooded with memes. I hate searching for anything on Discord...

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

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

Subs that have good guides and community info

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

I'm a bit overwhelmed by the response this has gotten. This thread could serve as a great source of inspiration for people who want to create subs (or is instances the right phrase now?) around topics they're passionate about. Forgive me the cliche but, be the change you want to see! If it doesn't exist, make it.

I'd like to see PS5, NintendoSwitch and ITManagers communities. I would start them, but do not have the time to moderate. :/

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.

Self hosting

Bit of a self promo but since this thread is getting traction and people coming here might be looking for subreddits alternatives...
If you're bi or like bisexual memes, it'd be great if you joined us over at !bi_irl@lemmy.ml :)

r/squaredcircle r/formuladank

Most of my time on Reddit was spent on r/Rimworld, r/Huntshowdown and r/books. So, those. I'll probably engage on any graphic design and art adjacent subs too, when they pop up.

Edit: actually, I'd like to get something cleared up. Instances are akin to subreddits? Or are multiple boards inside one instance?

r/twobestfriendsplay is the main one I have not brought over that I am too shy to because its so community based.

Besides that would like some more generalized art/hobby subs, stuff like r/pixelart, r/blender, the xheads music subreddits. I already made !indieheads@lemmy.ml, but I would love to see the rest! And maybe some of the aesthetic subs too, like liminalspaces (if there isn't already), global village coffeehouse, and skeuomorphism.

Also r/regards, but IDK anything about bots to set up something like that, plus what makes it work hinges entirely on it being an invite only subreddit. I'm not sure how to bring something like that over to Lemmy.

Also this is a deep cut but r/easywdw. They don't deserve to lose their community again. :(

I would love to see r/emo and r/mathrock here

One for home theaters, and one for audiophiles.

My big three (right now) are CFB (college football), Golf, and Warhammer 40k. I think warhammer 40k and golf could easily transition as they arent as confederated. However CFB is a pretty tight community with its own ranking polls and a ton of stuff built by the moderators and communities. That said I'm pretty sure a lot of those polls utilize reddit APIs for user verification. And that could be a real problem if Reddit messes with the APIs too much.

Noncredibledefense. There's one already but it's not active at all

Grimdank. I don't play it but I love the Warhammer universe.

Final Fantasy XIV. No, you have a problem!

R/German, r/ich_iel, r/justrolledintotheshop, r/oneorangebraincell, r/CuratedTumblr would be cool to see!

I dont know if my niche will quite fit the site yet, but I've followed a lot of animal subs ( crestedgecko, aidke, partyparrot, the twenty thousand cat subs... catsbeingcats of course a favorite ) and also a lot of botany style subs ( botany is the obvious one, houseplants, houseplantcirclejerk, savagegarden, mycology ) and then the unusual to pique interest ( unusualvideos, atbge, designdesign, barbarawalters4scale, hmmmgifs )

Special call out to /todayilearned a /awwducational for giving me fun facts to share with my co workers.

I think if there were master communities it would help appeal to a broad crowd.