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?

  • JakeSparkleChicken@midwest.socialEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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]

  • Stweaner@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m hoping for more medical communities to pop up. So far I haven’t found anything that is like r/medicine, r/residency, or any of the specialty of the research subs on reddit.

  • ayye@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year 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.

  • Chachi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

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

    Subs that have good guides and community info

  • Clav64@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

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

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • leanleft@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      8 months ago

      niche communities are [both] hard AND easy.
      some niche communites have a hard time staying active on ordinary reddit. (so therefore what does that mean for lemmy’s sucess rate)
      on the otherhand:
      reddit nich communites are such a horrific failure , in many cases, that literally one active poster would make lemmy versions massively superior to shitty mainstream reddit.

  • klemptor@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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
  • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • Garrathian@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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

  • Ko'vari@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • miz_nocturnal@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Loseit, maliciouscompliance, skincareaddiction, halloween, horror, ladyboners, Microdosing, workreform, truecrime, movies

    • worldcitizen101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I thought about creating loseit, but I’m not up for moderating something like that. I can see it getting hairy quickly.