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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.


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Just a working list - feel free to add to it. I realize that some of these might already exist, and I just missed them. Here's what I've got so far:

  • Book suggestions
  • Obscure Media
  • New England
  • Massachusetts
  • separate communities for every other state too
  • Mildly interesting
  • Antiwork
  • Anti-Amazon
  • buy it for life
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[–] kalanggam@beehaw.org 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

At first I read "would not like to see replicated" and I almost got upset, haha.

For me:

  • Fountain pens
  • Communities for different countries/regions or different language-speakers - on Reddit, I often lurked /r/de, /r/Philippines, etc.
  • Mechanical keyboards
  • Woodworking
  • Oddly satisfying
  • Star Trek
  • Battlestations

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.

[–] AnEilifintChorcra@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
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[–] Kory@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago
[–] emeraldheart@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] neamhsplach@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 12 points 2 years ago

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

[–] heraldique@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I would like to make a community for Québec City, bilingual at least

Also

  • r/webdev
  • R/fuckCars
  • R/ionic or r/capacitor . These are from the same company.
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[–] KoolDewd123@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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...).

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[–] zeWaardt@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I was a big fan of /r/justrolledintotheshop.

A similar community here would be tons of fun!

[–] kool_newt@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

Yes! I need my daily dose of WTF!!?

[–] perkele@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'll mail a 10mm to whoever gets one off the ground

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[–] Grassgrowz@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] SynapticOddity@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

askhistorians

[–] blade_imaginato@lemmy.one 9 points 2 years ago

r/politics r/WorldNews r/anime_tiddies

[–] styx@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago
  • Eli5 and eli7 were nice.
  • infrastructureporn, ruralporn etc. were also quite interesting.
  • partyparrot was awesome.
  • catswithjobs
  • dndmemes was fun
[–] Kepler@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Kory@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] PelicanPersuader@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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.

[–] firead@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I was wondering if someone was going to create a good fundiesnark community and if there would be enough interest here to keep it up.

I lurked more than posted on those communities because I've seen how toxic they can easily become and was turned away by some of the drama or when the snark started focusing on personal characteristics but, having been raised fundamentalist, there were also a lot of really relatable threads where others would share similar experiences (and the snark communities were always much more active than the survivor/former communities).

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[–] winterstillness@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Super niche, but

  • scalie/furry/yiff art (yeah yeah, I know)
  • anime tomboys (also yeah yeah, I know)

These would need a separate instance due to NSFW and hosting costs.

[–] FlowerTree@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago

There are quite a few furry/yiff art on yiffit.net instance.

But, to view nsfw art on lemmy, afaik, you must log into a lemmy account on an instance that supports nsfw (notably, lemmy.ml doesn't supoort nsfw, but beehaw.org does so you're safe), you also need to enable nsfw in your account settings.

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[–] KHN45@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm gonna miss r/world building a bunch, so much creativity. That, and other specialised hobby subs.

[–] Dee@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm also into worldbuilding! We can make our own worldbuilding community! We can even worldbuild some hookers and blackjack if we want to!

[–] micseydel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago

You can subscribe to the main one by using: !worldbuilding@lemmy.ml

[–] micseydel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago

!worldbuilding@lemmy.ml

[–] TheSwampBitch@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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:

  • r/raisedbynarcissists
  • r/marvelstudio
  • r/relationship_advice
  • r/foodporn
  • r/cozyplaces
  • r/cooking
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[–] SgtSilverLining@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'd love to see some art stuff; some of my favorite subreddits were:

  • minipainting
  • sewing
  • we are the music makers
  • sketching
  • art timelapse
  • amateur room porn
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[–] Cowbob45@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] claudinec@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] ohokthatsgood@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Liranalina@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

All the spanish speaking subs. I hope that this will be better place to build our corner. Also r/mylittlepony.

[–] comicallycluttered@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Probably niche, but /r/skyrimmods. Nexus is a toxic hellhole, but that sub was relatively chill (although had the occasional bit of drama, admittedly).

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[–] lunarshot@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] oilyfish@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] drwho@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

r/hamsters. r/hermitcrabs. r/locksport.

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[–] ArtificialLink@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Captain_Pieces@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

twobestfriendsplay, batmanarkham, hydrohomies, me_irl, adhdmeme, all the LoL subs, casual conversation, whowouldwin, repectthreads, handful of specific game subs.

[–] SirSauceLordtheThird@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'd like a mobile gaming sub, something for psp, 3ds fans etc
edit: i found one !3ds@lemmy.world

[–] el_fox@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

[–] claudinec@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

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.

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[–] kometes@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

fixedbytheduet. I need someone to curate Tiktok for me...

[–] MagicBarry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Magic, card tricks, and judo. I didnt participate much but I'd love to see what they would be like in the Fediverse

[–] Knickknack@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] kratoz29@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Something like a big community directory inside this thread would be nice.

[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

There's the Lemmy Community Browser, of course. Getting that functionality INSIDE Lemmy should really be high on the to-do list for the devs - that, and making it easier to subscribe to communities that aren't in your instance.

[–] Yoreo@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I was going to say buildapcsales, but it appears that someone created it in the last 24 hours.

[–] Tony_Pepperoni@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
  • Comic books
  • Book clu
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