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Agreed on this, I love AskHistorians and even contributed a few times. I miss it a lot.
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/r/liberalgunowners is missed. I could chat about guns and simple gunsmithing, see neat stuff I didn't know about, all without the toxic right-wing boolshit.
We had sane discussions about laws and responsible ownership, stuff like that. People were kind, no judgement, unless one was deliberately argumentative and/or acting a fool regarding safety. Even then, the mods would shut down the trolls (without the banhammer!) and the community would offer advice.
It was really nice.
I miss that one too. Being a liberal gun nerd in Texas is weird. All the gun shops, ranges, and conventions are more about right-wing politics, police worship, and fetishizing the Confederacy than the hobby.
To everyone missing a sub: open it on lemmy and be the first!
That just doesn't work.
There are many subs I wish they were on here and they aren't even if there is a community called like that, because nobody is there.
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AskLemmyAfterDark - it's healthy to have a place to have frank discussions about sexual health and safe kinkery.
/r/prisonhooch. Fucking hilarious some of the stuff people came up with. One guy made beer out of non-alcoholic beer. Another guy brewed peas into pea-not grigio. There were several people who brewed Powerade into wine. I really miss that subreddit.
I wish the Framework community had moved over wholly. There's a lot more activity on Reddit than on Lemmy, and the comments are important, so the lemmit online bot can't replace it.
R4R (or would it be L4L?)
Liked having conversations with people from various areas. Lemmy might not have the user base for it though.
Writingprompts.
Lots of high quality written content there.
Agreed. I dearly wish that sub was here
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I've wanted to open a string of video game subs on lemmy but i don't know what instance is best. It would have to be something that is ok with occasional porn and bad words (but not bigotry).
More car related communities
Like DragonsFuckingCars?
The hatred of cars on Lemmy is beyond ridiculous.
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AmITheAsshole. There's a few but they're all bots that repost Reddit content. No original ones that I've seen so far
whatisthisthing
Even if there is a community, the pool of people providing answers in these sorts of utility subs is going to be a fraction of what it was.
Well, every now and again, someone needs to post on the reddit one saying "look at them misidentifying a thing on Lemmy".
They'll either be genuinely helpful types, and join us to help out, or they'll be "someone is wrong on the internet" types, and join us to be correct.
Obviously I have no idea if this would work in practice.
r/subredditdrama - hands down one of my favourite sources of reddit content. r/drama isn't my jam, way too much fascist apologia there.
r/printsf exists already but the reddit community is much more active than lemmy, I'm hoping some of the sf/fiction communities on lemmy can rival it at some point.
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r/ElectroBOOM which is Mehdi's official subreddit.
r/NonCredibleDiplomacy and r/weezer. Two subs with insanely specific humor that I loved.
Tip of my tongue, Tip of my joystick and Sid Meier's Civilization. The first two subs have Lemmy communities ([email protected] and [email protected]) but, sadly, they lack activity. r/civ is one of the only subreddits i'm still using, because it has lots of unique guides not found anywhere else.
The Genshin fandom is much weaker here. I miss the endless *Mains communities with their useful guides, and the remarkable thirst of some of the groups :cough: /r/GenshinGays :cough:
What's a subreddit?
Whatβs This Rock and Whatβs This Fossil. I was actually getting really good at my mineral identifications, I would try guessing the mineral before opening the three to see if I got it right or not. The fossil one because sometimes you got to see some really cool stuff, other time hilariously, bad fossils made with mosasaur teeth. And the occasional flint arrow head or hand axe but weβre not in the scope of the subreddit but still cool anyway.
I'm approaching extraction day, getting a little less than half my teeth pulled. I was lurking on r/dentures for quite a while before I left. It would be nice if that community were around here.
Roborock or robovac, would be nice to keep up to date on new products and share troubleshooting info with other robovac owners / shoppers, but building that community here isn't a task I'm up to.
Would have to say the r/imaginaryelections and r/imaginarymaps communities for alternate history. If anyone knows any lemmy/Mastodon communities for that it'd be appreciated!
Stable Diffusion. Of course there's plenty of Lemmy SD forums, but if that user base was here I'd be able to cut spezzit totally off
Just got an e-scooter so more content about those would be neat
r/bjj the Brazilian Jiu-jitsu sub. The community here is pretty dead
/r/hyenas
I miss my daily dose of yeens from /u/McUsername621
I would love to find a roadtrip community
Justrolledintotheshop
My town
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