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!
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.
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
Battlestations exists, but has no content. I just made the first post in order to help stir up some engagement! 😃
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
Writingprrompts. Such excellent quality content there.
AskHistorians
I miss aita - I'm not sure if there's a similar one on here
MaybeMaybeMaybe, OddlySatisfying, ThatPeelingFeeling, CrabCats
I miss r/badtaxidermy It's my weird joy in life to see terrible taxidermied animals.
- Personal finance, the EU version of it and the German version of it
- Women centric communities
r/korea, r/TwoXChromosomes
My hometown..... great community on Reddit. Pretty much zilch over here so far.
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.
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.
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
I kinda miss collapse and acab for doom scrolling.
I still miss some of the more niche music subreddits, (updating this as I discover relevant communities)
- /kikagakumoyo
- /Krautrock
- /psychedelicrock
- /nearprog
- /zappa - !frankzappa@lemmy.world
Linguistic humor. I know it exists in the lemmyverse but it's not active
I miss the data analysis subs
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.
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.
/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.
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.
Where's stupidfood? I need ideas for dinner!
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
Permanently Deleted
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
/r/fitness. I know it sort of exists but the mods and the daily threads and wiki etc are awesome and I miss it.
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.
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/hackintosh NGL, its such an absolute waste of time. But it’s like a puzzle you feel you must complete…
Redneck engineering
Warriors, watches, and Star Wars
I'm addicted to cats, so the 30000 varieties of cat subs mainly.
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 ^
r/bertstrips
conlangs and neography
Swords and legorockets
Christianity, Gentleman, BulletJournaling
yoyo and riddim dubstep
Macgaming, realestate, Massachusetts.
They exist on Lemmy but verrrrrry quiet
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.
I miss r/worldjerking. To me, it was one of the funniest niche subs on reddit.
Daddit!
r/latinopeopletwitter
I miss the sporting communities on subs like r/nrl where there would be thousands of posts on each game thread.
r/hockeyplayers
r/hockeyjerseys
r/Canes
r/nin
r/weimaraner
r/pearljamI'm missing a few, but those are the first that came to mind
jailbreak, PS4deals/PS5deals
Teaching, teachers, TESOL, international teaching. Basically just a support group for struggling teachers.
AITC and legslcatadvice
Communities You Check Out. Some the old subs on community/magazine style.
I think the link didn't work. Here it is https://lemmy.world/post/983150
r/RomanceBooks There's not really a replacement for it that I've found on Lemmy yet
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/gameboyProbably more but that's all I can think of right now.
There are transplants here on Lemmy, but few subscribers, and few contents. Some likely would remain that way.
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
It got nuked on reddit, perhaps with good reason, but I do miss watchpeopledie
And the nsfw stuff, even on lemmynsfw.com , is decent, but hasn't quite reached critical mass yet.
