For me it’s been communities like /r/buildapc, /r/buildapcforme, /r/buildapcsales, /r/gamedeals, and /r/consoledeals have been useful throughout the years.

  • Pigeon@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I want equivalents for:

    • r/Fantasy
    • r/tipofmytongue (iirc that name - the one for helping people find shit they’ve forgotten)
    • maybe r/52books (it produces too many simple posts to just go in r/books, not sure if the same would be true here)
    • r/vegetarian

    Edit: r/fantasy is the biggest one for me. In effect the subreddit is really more for SciFi and Fantasy, both - and other speculative fiction - and they have a yearly speculative fiction bingo card that’s really fun to participate in. It’s mostly books in practice but is not exclusively about books.

  • Something Clever@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I would love to see something like r/AskHistorians. It’s my favorite sub by far, and something I have really seen anywhere else. It’s heavily moderated (in a good way), and the answers are all high quality and sourced. It’s pretty much why I held on to my reddit account as long as I have.

  • LucyLastic@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hmmm …

    Archery Motorcycles Old Photos in Real Life Spanish as a Second Language

    I’m missing a lot of more specialised things, but these are pretty broad I think

  • Wolfric82@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Off the top of my head communities like

    r/3rprinting r/instantpot r/todayilearned r/therewasanattempt r/space r/changemyview r/unpopularopinion

  • IcedCoffeeBitch@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I miss r/actuallesbians, r/MTF, and some obscure gaming communties like r/titanfall, r/Metroid and r/Earthbound.

    Oh and the brainrot known as r/okbuddychicanery and r/anarchychess.

  • luna@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’d love to see more communities that cover topics outside of the usual STEM / STEM-adjacent / typical redditor interests. I was on another reddit-alternative a few years ago called tildes and it was … shockingly like a microcosm of reddit. Like, it’s hard to describe how narrowly-focused, how stereotypically reddit, the userbase’s interests are. STEM, anime, gaming.

    The music, literature, humanities, environment, city life and so on communities are excellent starts in that direction. And, despite the fact I’ll never read anything there, the sports community is equally valuable for the same reason.

    That said, something for tabletop games would be cool, too. Preferably something not D&D/MtG because we all know they completely take over every space they touch (like my FLGS… RIP).

    • IAm8BitWolf@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You’re joking but currently a discord I’m in has a cult over a specific Garfield Minus Garfield comic, a cult that got genuinely rowdy when the comic stopped being posted.

      All I’m saying, Garfield is probably an elder god

      • DracEULA@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I’m probably only half joking. I love when people just do weird shit for the hell of it, it reminds me of the early internet. People doodling horrific Garfield content is weirdly wholesome and just makes me happy.

  • l0st-scr1b3@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Also wanted to add that a comics equivalent would be nice if there isn’t one already. I doubt many of the longtime artists would migrate fully, but it would at least be another platform that could get them greater reach.

  • l0st-scr1b3@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I saw it sort of mentioned, but I think niche shitposting communities like the various okbuddy subs.

  • petrichorbreeze@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Any and all of the sports subreddits. Nothing brings more user engagement (positive and negative) than game threads for sporting events. The sooner we can get a thriving sports community going, the faster Lemmy or any social media app will grow.