Which communities are you currently missing on Lemmy?

It's not so much the communities as the number of posts, I open Lemmy and see posts I saw yesterday only half way down the front page.

yeah, that's something that is getting slightly better over time if you sub to more instances outside.
- Can you please elaborate what you mean by this? Like register at sh.itjust.works, lemmy.world, etc?
Subscribe to more communities. I have like 50 of them from many different instances and it's always new content. Make sure to set filter to Last Day or Last 6 hours.
Lemmy.world is the largest instance now I believe with tons of communities so start there.
Honestly, this was helped simply by subbing to a lot of different communities. Each day is a fresh feed. It’s not up to Reddit’s “every single refresh is a brand new front page” level, but it’s enough to be able to scroll for an hour or two each day.
You can find Communities from instances all over the Lemmyverse at https://browse.feddit.de
- Another good one is https://lemmyverse.net/communities

Communities for specific video games, like /r/wow or /r/ffxiv

Yep. R/Noita went private and moved to the discord I was already in, but Discord is a terrible replacement for Reddit. I don't have time to read everything in the community to find anything in the community... So now I only have the comment section in FuryForged to find new discoveries in one of the most ridiculously complicated physics simulators I play.
It's an obscure enough community that I doubt it will reopen there, and I'd lose some respect for it if it reopened before Reddit actually listened to a single word we said.
Avid Guild wars 2 player here, I really do miss being on that subreddit. Since reddit was also big, it did allow developers to interact with their players a bit more directly and was a good way to get official info to them.
In this specific case I added browsing the game forums instead of going on reddit, not much has changed except the lessened amount of ads on my screen lol.

I miss the local subs for my city and other local communities around me. They were great for keeping up with what was going on. I can't stand all the pissing and moaning on Nextdoor. There are a couple of Facebook groups but I refuse to install any Meta apps on my phone.

Battlestations exists, but has no content. I just made the first post in order to help stir up some engagement! 😃

AskHistorians

A lot of craft subs, r/embroidery, r/weaving, r/pottery etc. Also r/twosentencehorror.

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I have just the list for you: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/289893
- Not who you were replying to, but this is awesome. Thank you!
- Thank you!

r/NFL, r/CFB, and r/Hockey. They all kinda exist here but are nowhere active enough.. I miss game threads with thousands of comments.

MaybeMaybeMaybe, OddlySatisfying, ThatPeelingFeeling, CrabCats

Right now I am missing the hyper specific cat subreddits like catswhoyell and catsinbusinessattire. There are so many that I loved to revisit every 2-3 months and see what was there

The subs for games like Street Fighter, the sub for fight sticks, the kind of semi-niche gaming communities that snowballed because of Reddit's ubiquity

Agreed. I'm really missing the Street Fighter and and related FGC communities from reddit.

My local city's subreddit. Someone's made one but no one is posting. It was the main way I found out what was going on.

I think every city/location sub is like this. It's the only one not governed by interest, but of location.
I'm trying to seed my own, but it's a Sisyphean task. And I know the only way to really get it going is to mention Lemmy IRL.

Trade communities like construction, electricians (my trade), and oshaviolations.

I started posting to eletricians but i am the only one.

r/noncredibledefense. There are a few inactive Lemmy instances of it and the Discord server is cool, but they both pale in comparison to the subreddit

The dry-herb vaping communities haven't really transitioned very well, and I'm too lazy to get back into proper community building and moderation after having all my accounts permabanned on reddit. For now I am just sticking to the 420vapezone discord.

Linguistic humor. I know it exists in the lemmyverse but it's not active

Reddit was really good for learning Japanese, had a bunch of different kinds of subreddits for it. Definitely the biggest thing I'm missing here =/

The art subs, like r/art, graphic design, art nouveau, and all the AI art subs. I was mostly a lurker on those ones but they were really great eye candy.

Also things like earth porn and the nature subs. Was nice to see cool places in my feed.

And the local community subs. I think that will take a long time to develop (if it ever does). I used to get a lot of news on city events from Reddit and without Boost on my phone I'm feeling out of the loop

Art isn't my world so I'm sure there's plenty more on lemmyverse.net but I do know !artshare@lemmy.world (Lemmy / Kbin) has been getting going a bit recently.

I miss communities sharing news about the attack of Russia on Ukraine. I was mainly browsing these subs: r/ukraine, r/ukrainewarvideoreport, r/combatfootage, r/ncd Non credible defence seems to be active but the others are pretty empty. These subs had about lets a ton of posts every day

The subresdit /r/frugalmalefashion was really incredie for a while there, but it thrived in users posting good deals regularly and fair moderators keeping out inappropriate content (i.e. scams, predatory subscription services, and comments like "this isn't truly frugal!"). /r/buildapcsales was the same way

I miss aita - I'm not sure if there's a similar one on here

/r/Skincareaddiction, /r/EuroSkincare, various fanfiction subs, /r/Medicine, and a lot more.

Reddit has SO many niche communities that have built up a fairly large amount of information over time. I'm determined to stick to Lemmy but it sucks to lose all that knowledge. It's going to take years for Lemmy to build up.

Writingprrompts. Such excellent quality content there.

Best of Redditor Updates 😭

/r/bestof was great. Maybe not the actual the best of but it at least had an eclectic mix of interesting comments.
- https://kbin.social/m/bestof is similar.
Oh yes! It was my daily dose of wtfness.

For me it’s just the smaller gaming ones that aren’t as active or not here, I enjoyed browsing through specific WoW (this isn’t so active), ESO or Diablo subs.

My home page is already in fairly nice shape with “general” interests

Yep definitely feeling this. I’m mostly into flight and space sims… so a niche within a niche. None of these communities made the move over to lemmy with me.

Not missing the subreddit itself, but /r/tvtoohigh is a great symbol for how even the most obscure niche subreddits had a steady flow of content.

r/anime_titties ( :-D ), r/fountainpens, r/chessbeginners & r/chess (and maaaybe r/anarchychess) r/moebius and r/moebius_giraud_study :-/

Edit: the old r/madlads was nice, if someone could revive it ^

I miss all my fun niche subs. Like mirror forsale, were it's just funny pics of people who sell mirrors or take pics in front of mirrors.

Purple coco, sub for plugs in strange places.

Chairsinwater, its chairs in water and the flair was always NSFW.

There more but those are the top ones I miss.

!chairsunderwater@lemmy.world
For some chair action
!chairsunderwater@lemm.ee
There’s this one but not as much activity.
You would have loved breadstapledtotrees!

All the niche anime subreddits I frequented. I'm not really a creator myself and I don't think there's enough people migrated to this site for someone else to start posting about PreCure news or similar.

Any other particular subs or communities in mind? I could start a few if it matches my interests.
There are some manga instances but nothing great as of yet, and I assume it's mostly the same for anime, animemes aside. I'm really missing shitpostcrusaders though

Warriors, watches, and Star Wars

I miss the niche trade subs, like r/electricians, r/construction, and r/machinists. Tons of great content on their subs that just isn’t here on Lemmy since most people on those subs don’t skew as techy as most Lemmy users.

Still not worth supporting Reddit though.

I'm addicted to cats, so the 30000 varieties of cat subs mainly.

Daddit!

I miss r/worldjerking. To me, it was one of the funniest niche subs on reddit.

Macgaming, realestate, Massachusetts.

They exist on Lemmy but verrrrrry quiet

There's a Pokemon Go subreddit called TheSilphRoad that was basically the place for in depth discussion on the game. Such subs here have been quiet and shallow.

conlangs and neography

yoyo and riddim dubstep

I miss r/badtaxidermy It's my weird joy in life to see terrible taxidermied animals.

A few subreddits I were in were from Hetzner Online (r/hetzner) and Google Workspace (r/gsuite) which I did not find an equivalent for yet. r/armbian and r/armbianusers were mostly secondary since there was/is no interest in moderating those from the official project side. However was reading there from time to time.

r/PWM_Sensitive

It has less than 1000 members for a very niche topic. With the subreddit so small I doubt it would start here.

r/hackintosh NGL, its such an absolute waste of time. But it’s like a puzzle you feel you must complete…

Prequelmemes, renfaire, antiwork, bikinibottomtwitter, raimimemes, insanepeoplefacebook, oldpeoplefacebook, Disneyvacation/notdisneyvacation, earthporn, novontextpics, marvelstudios.

Hello there, For a prequelmemes replacement, checkout:
!starwarsmemes@lemmy.world
- While it's ok, it's not prequel memes. Too many sequel memes for me in there.
https://lemmy.ca/c/antiwork is similar to r/antiwork
- Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !antiwork@lemmy.ca

Most of the technology subs I followed have migrated to some degree, but I've noticed a lot of "normie" subs are still stuck. For me in particular, r/Writing prompts, r/nosleep, and r/YoutubeHaikus are sorely missed.

Ask Science Fiction, Who Would Win, The Maw Installation, and similar discussion boards for in-universe questions about fiction.

For those who aren't familiar, Ask Science Fiction (more accurate parsed as Ask Science: Fiction) is a board for asking and answering questions about fiction from an in-universe perspective. Questions and answers don't necessarily have to be role-played, but they should assume the internal logic of the universe in reference. Answers from an out-of-universe perspective ("George Lucas didn't decide that Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker were the same person until later") are against the rules, though there's some allowance for media that's super-meta and can't be answered otherwise.

Who Would Win is a board for posing hypothetical scenarios, often but not exclusively about fictional characters or factions. Think "Who would win in a fight between Superman and Batman?". Evidence in the form of references to specific canon media is encouraged.

The Maw Installation (and similar places like the Daystrom Institute for Star Trek) is essentially Ask Science Fiction, but specifically for the Star Wars franchise. I find that boards like this can encourage interesting world-building that makes the original text feel richer, as well as more in-depth critique of the text as media.

I'm sure some of these exist in some form in Lemmy, but I'm still looking for them!

I was about to say I'd like to see something similar to Ask Science Fiction, but with more easy-going mods. It's fine for the sub to focus on the in-universe perspective while still allowing an out-of-universe comments where they enhance the discussion.

I miss the data analysis subs

/r/midjourney

https://sh.itjust.works/c/imageai this one is a mix of image ai.
- Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !imageai@sh.itjust.works

The anime community. Seems awfully dead over here on Lemmy. :/

!anime@lemmy.ml is pretty good.
We badly need more active mods, and an episode discussion posting bot, but I think the volume of discussion there is promising, if not pretty good.
- My gripe with !anime@lemmy.ml is that one of their mod (N3DSdude) is a subreddit hoarder on Reddit. Not only is he inactive in most of the subreddit he moderates on Reddit, he's also inactive on Lemmy. This person has no interest in growing the community aside from hoarding as many communities on Lemmy as possible.
  There needs to be another c/anime on a different instance.

r/korea, r/TwoXChromosomes

Redneck engineering

/r/fitness. I know it sort of exists but the mods and the daily threads and wiki etc are awesome and I miss it.

The grimdank here is inactive. I miss all my Warhammer 40k faction subs, distressingmemes/surrealmemes, and all the extremely active gamedev subs.

!gamedev@lemmy.blahaj.zone (Lemmy / Kbin) has a list of related communities pinned at https://lemmy.world/post/34963 if that's any help.
- Thank you

etymology and stoicism, but I lack the expertise necessary to moderate or kickstart either

There actually is an active stoicism one!
- I didn't find it when I searched a few days ago, care to name-drop?

UK focused casual discussion and news.

There's a very small amount, but nothing like there was on Reddit. It's the only thing I miss.

For anyone else looking for this: !ukcasual@lemmy.world (Lemmy / Kbin)

r/whatisthissnake, r/subgenius, r/herpetology, ~~r/bash~~ (it is here! But it needs more users!), r/gpgpractice (not that I need it but it helps new gpg users), r/gameboy

Probably more but that's all I can think of right now.

stupiddovenests

A bunch of morbid and medical subs like morbid curiosity, medizzy, medicalgore, thegrittypast. I always have found those subs super interesting and filled with discussion about stuff I don't usually encounter in my day to day life so I've been missing that.

I was looking for creepywikipedia but nothing yet and the app I’m using doesn’t seem to have an option for starting communities yet
- There's definitely someone pasting creepywikipedia links - just scrolled past a load of them in 'new/all'

r/visiblemending r/fromscratch r/vermiculture r/TwoXChromosomes

Pretty sure I saw a visible mending community recently, let's see what autocompletes...
!visibleMending@kbin.social (Lemmy / Kbin) there you go, turns out it was a magazine! Looks like it's new and needs content, go go go :)
You may also like !sewingrepairing@sh.itjust.works (Lemmy / Kbin), similar vibe.
- Wow thanks so much!

r/doom

r/aeiou

r/okoidawappler

r/spengergasse

The last three are very small comunities, so I'm not surprised, but I don't know why there isn't a larger doom comunity