r/mls and r/soundersfc

There is an mls community but it doesn’t get a lot of traffic.

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

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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.

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!

r/korea, r/TwoXChromosomes

There are transplants here on Lemmy, but few subscribers, and few contents. Some likely would remain that way.

jailbreak, PS4deals/PS5deals

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.

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.

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

There were a few professional psychology related subreddits that had moderation that verified licensure to allow posting only by actually professionals and that was pretty nice

There was also askatherapist which was interesting to get unfiltered client perspectives and offer clinician feedback

Morbidquestions was an interesting sub sometimes. 80% of the time it was stupid edgelord bullshit but sometimes someone would ask a really interesting dark question

Creepywikipedia was a good one and is explained by the name

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.

Personal finance, the EU version of it and the German version of it

Women centric communities

stupiddovenests

I kinda miss collapse and acab for doom scrolling.

My hometown… great community on Reddit. Pretty much zilch over here so far.

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.

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

Where’s stupidfood? I need ideas for dinner!

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

r/RomanceBooks There’s not really a replacement for it that I’ve found on Lemmy yet

A pokemon go info and discussion community. More r/silph less /go … some magical middle ground.

HighStrangeness :(

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.

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I miss r/marijuanaenthusiasts, which was so named because weed enjoyers had already claimed r/trees. On a search, I see there has already been a “trees” community on Lemmy for a while now (more than one - because of course), but I turned up a big fat goose egg when looking for its arborism-centeic counterpart.

r/bertstrips

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.

Dragon Age. I need somewhere to bitch about not having news despite being promised news back in November (like goddamnit Bioware, all we want is a trailer!)

/r/scalemodel

Seems like all the main ones I subscribed to on reddit are already here in some form, I’m hoping AskHistorians comes on over. There’s two more extremely niche communities related to US immigration that I’m in which seem unlikely to ever make it here, but we’ll see.

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