Subreddits you are going to miss?

I’m really worried for those who use third party apps and depend on r/stopdrinking. That community single-handedly helped me get sober.

I fear that someone who is on the brink of breaking sobriety and wants to reach out on r/stopdrinking, not being able to access it from the app they normally use would be just enough of a hurdle for them to give in and start drinking again.

Makes me really sad to think about since it can be a dark place and the people there are so genuinely caring.

Honestly, I think the more reliable curated information will be what I miss the most. I almost always append a Google search with "Reddit" - because the information and format are so much more reliable than the bot populated garbage sites.

Also, niche porn subs. 🫡

I mostly will miss being able to google something and adding "reddit" to my search to search for public opinion on day to day issues and problems.

all of the weird, super-specific cute pages. illegallysmolcats, illegallysmoldogs, airplaneears, attackeyes, puppybellies, oneorangebraincell, stealthbombers, scrunge, peanutwhiskers, toebeans, whatswrongwithyourcat, crabcats, huskytantrums.

I... may have an addiction.

/r/AskHistorians - ruthlessly and efficiently moderated, but every single post a fascinating read. I should msg Zukhov to see if he wants to move ship to /c/AskHistorians.

Really going to miss my local subreddit.

We had a weekly rant thread and it was funny just seeing neighbors talk smack or bitch about silly little things.

Definitely r/BestOfRedditorUpdates

I miss r/quilting and r/sewing. As a crafter, the knowledge I gain from these type of subs is invaluable

Not a subreddit, exactly, but I'm going to miss /u/poem_for_your_sprog and /u/Schnoodle_Doodle_Do. They made browsing so much better - I loved unexpectedly coming across one of their poems.

r/AskHistorians. I don't think a sub like that can just be remade out of nowhere

I just want to find a place where I can say "Taiwan is number one" and "Putin is a bitch".

All of the TV series subs and the discussions. It's great after watching an episode to join the discussion with others.

I'm going to miss many of them, I'm a real reddit junkie. But I'm leaving tonight and don't expect to be back.

Most missed: Witches vs. Patriarchy. Can't seem to find a lemmy equivalent.

Edit: my first comment!

I'm someone that doesn't have many friends or many people to talk to about life and it's dilemmas. So when I had any sort of problem I often went to advice type subreddits to talk it out. So yes AITA was one. But also AmIBeingTooSensitive, Relationships, OffMyChest, etc. And I'm a mom so parenting subreddits were a good resource. And also subreddits like LoseIt and PetiteFitness were helpful because I struggle with my weight.

But one thing I noticed before all the drama was that the people on reddit got more and more hateful. Instead of trying to help the poster, they'd tried to find more to the story to make them this evil person. And they'd completely fabricate a separate reality and just tear OP a new one based off of assumptions.

So I was already kinda done with Reddit before the drama with 3rd party apps. I knew that it was causing me more problems than help. I had already started telling myself to stay away. It's toxic. So I'm happy to have an excuse to get out.

So hopefully an alternative emerges with nicer people. Or maybe I should just go find friends.

r/cancer It was a nice space to find support of other people going through what I'm going through.

r/ukraine I really hope to see something similar here soon.

I'll miss clicking Top of All Time in all subreddits. In here I have to wait YEARS before I can find the Top of All Time content.

R/fountainpens. Other forums exist, but they aren't (a) as easy to use (b) as welcoming to newbies, yet (c) still full of experts.

I'm guessing lots of hobby subs are like that.

my first comment!

i’m going to miss formuladank. i’ll try to start every single sub i’ll miss on here though. my account is only a few minutes old

Nosleep and its assorted subs... I've been reading there since it had roughly 300 subscribers. I really hope the community rebuilds here.

HobbyDrama and similar subs. They're the Fandom_Wank of the Reddit era and I honestly love every bit of it. I'll miss Rimworld, too.

There are so many… I used the platform for 8 years and really learned something new whenever I opened the App… I hope a lot of them will find their way over here.

/r/history heavily moderated and has actual historical experts answering questions and has a big library of already answered questions.

While there were a billion ones I've used as entertainment before bed or during bathroom breaks... I believe what I'll miss the most is the ability to search "problem I'm having + Reddit" and get very precise results with (usually) great solutions.

r/TalesfromtheFrontDesk, r/TalesFromYourServer, and r/TalesFromRetail. The camaraderie and support among these people, the abuse they endure, and how big their hearts are despite how tough their jobs are... I really enjoyed those. I hope they land somewhere here.

I might be older than a fair amount of you on the fediverse, but I'm going to miss Daddit. It was a super supportive community. I'm also going to miss nosleep, I really enjoyed a lot of those multi part stories! Other than that, I think I'm just going to miss all the random stupid posts I saved over the years and went back to here and there for a good laugh.

r/talesfromtechsupport

I'm gonna miss none of them because they will all come here

IdiotsInCars, RBI, aspergirls, and a lot of mental health subs.

To be honest, I won't really miss any specific subreddit. Many of the niche and hobby ones that I cared for, I would not subscribe to, because of the low-effort posts.

I will miss site:reddit.com most of all.

Shitposting/humour subreddits for niche topics, like r/languagelearningjerk, r/vexillologycirclejerk and r/worldjerking

Non Credible Defense

I need my dose of plane fuckery.

First time posting here, and still figuring it out. Excited about the new possibilities. I was a redditor for ever a decade. Throughout the years I've had several favorite subs, and some I simply followed because of the quality moderation and content like with r/AskHistorians. What I'm going to miss the most, however, is the reddit lore and history. The good, funny, bad, and even ugly. From the Swamps of Dagobah, to the rise and fall of u/Unidan.

It's been a good ride with reddit, but I'm excited to be part of a new start and new culture.

They'll come, I'm sure, but many craft and hobby-based subreddits, including r/wood, r/cardistry, r/MUD (or MUDs?). I'm looking to external sources for that type of learning new skills or topics.

I don't really care for endless memes and shit posting, but deep content takes more time and effort, so patience seems necessary.

R/leaves has been a mixed bag-- lots of repetitive questions, but also some amazing and human stories.

r/PolandBall. I love the history jokes

Local communities. I do not know why, but having people share the same social conditions makes them a warm place, even for gaming communities

Don't be afraid to create your own communities!

I'll miss /r/maliciouscompliance...

r/bestofredditorupdates was what I read before I went to bed. I’m lost without it.

Wherever we live, subs for our local communities will be missed.

To be honest, so many posts from r/AITA came off as fake after a while, I was already beginning to lose interest. People would do anything for upvotes. Maybe this time we can have less liars, but I'm not so naive as to actually hope for that.

/r/nobuy, they are a very supportive community.

r/feet

r/AskHistorians - mostly because of the unprecedented quality of moderation r/MaleFashionAdvice - helped me appreciate fashion and nice clothes

Forwards from grandma. HI JENICE, HAPPY BIRTHDAY. YOUR AUNT HAD VASECTOMY LAST WEEK AND PASSED AWAY IN HER SLEEP. L.O.L. XXX

r/abruptchaos and r/prequelmemes for me

r/chess. I'd love to see chess communities flourish here in Lemmy.

Game specific ones. /r/hyruleengineering and /r/darktide as recent ones.

All the /r/

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_irl communities. The later seems like one I could probably just start and post in, even if no one else sees them.

r/aspiememes

Weird niche ones like r/SpecEvoJerking. Speculative evolution is already super niche and that's a parody sub about it.

Another Plebbit refugee here. I liked r/RoleReversal and r/neverchangejapan. Honourable mention: r/piracy =)

r/mademesmile , wholesome but with more substance than just memes.

Some of the industry specific ones like supply chain or logistics or even insurance were fun to lurk, and get a sense of what people in the industry think of those outside it

Let's create them here, this could be the beginning of something beautiful!! Btw, Lemmur or Jerboa like app for Lemmy? 🤔

SquaredCircle and also r/thefighterandthekid. Homeless cats know

I used to love lurking on AskReddit because there was a lot of interesting stories and topics there

I'm really going to miss /r/writingprompts, I've written a lot of stuff for them over the years. Sadly I don't see a replacement popping up here yet and their mods also didn't bother with the blackout protest.

Is there a way of finding popular communities across the federated lemmyverse? And on a smaller scale can I find popular communities on my instance?

Edit: leaving for posterity, but! there’s a “local” and an “all” in the communities browser: https://lemmy.world/communities/listing_type/All/page/1

I sure hope people aren't deleting all their old useful guides and troubleshooting posts. Yesterday I was playing Stardew Valley, I had a simple question, so I duckduckgo-ed it and found some promising links on r/StardewValley, but StardewValley was private. Very frustrating. I hope this isn't the norm. So, so far...that. I miss StardewValley. Besides that, I will miss r/bestofredditorupdates

r/castiron r/cremposting r/absoluteunits r/old_recipes all my favorite corners of the internet

Idiotsincars... but there are just *so many *idiots out there so I'm sure I'll find a replacement for it.

R/reddevils. We are trying to reform it here but it will take time

Honestly, a lot of NSFW subs devoted to somewhat niche fetishes. I saw lemmynsfw.com started up as a separate instance for NSFW content, and I'm hoping at least some of these subs make it over there soon.

That’s how these things work. Reddit took its time. I truly think that Lemmy will benefit from apps that make the experience accessible.

COLLAPSE

Call me a doomer if you want, but i think we're gonna be way fucked a lot sooner than expected climate-wise

I won't miss many individual subs, but I will miss the totality of communities.

I will miss that, if I had a problem or question about X, there was almost always a sub for X, and it was usually the best place to get information from people that have some sort of clue.

Example: when it came to weird behaviors from my Samsung Odyssey G7 monitor, /r/Monitors was the only place with clear, focused discussion about it. The Samsung web forums had some people complaining too, but nobody actually sticks around the Samsung forums to have ongoing discussions, so getting a full picture of what people are experiencing was a lot harder. Plus, those kind of forums are always filled with a lot of Yahoo Answers quality of posts, so you have to sift through so much junk to find any usable info.

I've had this experience so many times with Reddit. That's what I'm most afraid of losing.

My local city subreddit, r/stlouis. The fediverse channels for it are dead but hopefully that will change. Also r/personalfinance

/AskAnAmerican - It's interesting to see what the rest of the world doesn't get about us.

There were the time-sucks like r/amitheasshole that I loved, but what I really miss is the practical every-day subs where people shared valuable information. I am really into vegetable gardening, mechanical keyboards, and a few other hobbies and it was great to go to those subs and ask questions or get information. Vegetable gardening was particularly helpful in the last month so I am really missing it! Also, I was really active in a sub for people with type 1 diabetes and that was a huge resource in my life. Really missing that one.

Hey everyone, I just joined 5 minutes ago. Been a Redditor for 7y 2m. I’m actually really going to miss reddit and many of the communities such as r/idiotsincars, r/catastrophicfailures, and well a couple hundred more over followed over the years. I’m hoping I can find more community here though. I never felt connected to the users on Reddit. Maybe it will be different here.

Cyberdeck & cassettefuturism

Jeopardy for daily show breakdowns

Local sports teams

A few gaming ones, but I suspect they're here somewhere too

Most of my favorites have a discord, but that just doesn't feel the same. Very hard to wade through all that chatter

Not ashamed to say trashyboners. Someone's gotta stand up for the trash of this world.

A whole bunch of the ones around tabletop games. Mini painting, terrainbuilding, some of the game-specific subreddits that always have loads of userafe content.

If anyone has spotted these communities here in federation space please let me know; I didn't find any so far.

The gardening subs always made me feel like I could do anything in my tiny garden as long as I put in the work.

The vinyl releases sub. It's how I built my collection.

I'm going to miss all of my smaller history/archaeology related subreddits.

The hilarity of /r/SubredditDrama

I'll miss the meta subreddits like lostredditors, switcheroo, SubredditSimulator and SubSimulatorGPT2. I'll miss niche communities built around less mainstream games and shows. I'm really going to miss DaystromInstitute and SonicShowerThoughts.

Overall my biggest concern is over the giant stockpile of years of community answers to all kinds of questions. If Reddit falls what happens to all of that? How do we pick up the slack if it does?

Subs that deal with medical issues. It was nice being able to go to them for advice or to help others.

Such subs were already niche on Reddit, and given their often embarrassing nature, I don't think we'll see them on lemmy in any comparable form for a while.

Nosleep and other horror/terror/creepy things subs and some specific videogames subs

Where my r/futurama_sleepers at

r/FunnyAnimals. For some reason, it made me sleep better at nights. A few funny videos with pets and I could end my day with a smile.

BestofRedditorUpdates

So much unnecessary drama, but can't stop reading

Reminds me that r/changemyview also really requires a large pool of participants to have value... Damn, I really liked that subreddit. I feel like it made me a better person.

/r/apolloapp

r/perfectlycutscreams and r/nosleep

Comics. I don't think a lot of comic creators will start posting here, so can't interact with the creator.

With that, also not sure about editing like bonehurtingjuice.

Also, potentially somewhat nsfw subs dedicated to specific people. Somehow I doubt the Lemmy community in general has much interest in that. Too mainstream I guess?

r/houseplants and r/food. I loved browsing aimlessly through all the pictures and seeing pets in the background.

r/Fedora and r/ThinkPad. Those are the two I spent the most time in. I will also really miss my guilty pleasure subreddits like r/gaystoriesgonwild, r/Twinks, and r/GayKink. Haha.

r/greebles for sure! I got into their Discord though!

I’ll definitely miss r/worldbuilding. Lots of people making cool stuff on there.

I participated quite a bit in r/whatsthisbug and r/spiders helping identify bugs (mostly spiders) for people. It was something I really liked doing, especially educating people about how spiders aren't things to worry about. Guess I'll just head back to iNaturalist for that content.

Other than that, more niche gaming communities were a big one for me. r/puzzleanddragons is a mobile game I play often and the sub was super helpful for news and game discussion/guides. I hope it can kick off here.

r/BestofRedditorUpdates I fall asleep reading posts, it's bad (edit, thankfully someone made one here /c/bestupdates)

r/PersonOfInterest because it's my favorite tv show, I'm really due for a rewatch when I think about it

r/mycology was an amazing community where people and bots would help identify mushrooms and other fungi pretty quickly.

R/popping

I miss r/neography. It was full of interesting conscripts by so many talented people. The hardest part about leaving Reddit was the loss of these niche communities that can’t be easily replaced over here. I also miss my country’s subreddit, it was nice place with interesting people and entertaining posts. I tried to make a replacement on Kbin but it’s just 8 people and I’m the only one posting. But this is only the beginning, the fediverse will only grow from here and we’ll start seeing these smaller communities appear.

A lot of subreddits that have been said I'll also miss, but for me personally I'll miss the Math based subreddits I used to follow the most. r/badmath was a particular fav. I don't have many "math people" in my friend group so it was nice to have a place to chat about differnet math topics and learn. But hey, I'm sure with time we can expect a lot of those subreddits to find a home elsewhere. Hopefully here. I like it a lot so far!

All the cat's subreddits

futurology, medicalgore, medizzy, okbuddyretard, surrealmeme,bossfight,chadtopia, internetisbeautiful

To be honest a lot of nsfw ones :/

sports subs probably... and r/anime... ah and r/idiotsincars

EDIT: r/manga too....

artisanvideos. I love a good japanese watch maker making a wooden cabinet in a rainforest with rocks as tools.

Will miss the AFL (Australian Football League) r/AFL

nba, sffpc, pauper, magictcg and some other niche things.

r/tooktoomuch

i’m definitely going to miss r/BuyItForLife. it was really nice to lurk on there and find good quality products like darn tough socks being recommended to people. found my backpack there too and it’s the best i’ve ever had.

I miss the Apple related subreddits, that community hasn’t really seemed to move over yet.

I think losing the ability to lurk in active communities of people I disagree with politically. I would never engage as it didn't seem right, especially down/upvoting, but It was always interesting to see things from the other perspective.

So places like r/tories, r/conservative, r/prolife, r/liberalgunowners - as a guy from the UK a lot of the subjects discussed in a few of those didn't affect me but I always prefer seeing things from both sides (even if I would never agree with them)

I'm really going to miss anime_titties; for anyone that doesn't know, it was a wildly inappropriately named serious subreddit focused on interesting, relevant, unbiased world news that actually affected people.

r/WhatIsThisThing, r/TipOfMyTongue, and similar subreddits. Some of the simplest and best examples of the power of crowdsourced knowledge. Take a simple question with a simple answer that is basically impossible to search through conventional means, but through the power of those communities you can get your answer in minutes. Simply amazing.

Lemmy is going to have to get huge before it can really replace them. :/

Specific game subs, especially smaller indie games

I'm definitely going to miss the true crime/unresolved mystery/paranormal subreddits. I loved the CreepyAskReddit curation.

I definitely miss knowledge stuff like r/eli5 r/nostupidquestion r/space r/science r/todayilearned

I browsed reddit a lot learning new stuff everyday while drinking my morning tea. But the thing I miss the most are the comments. So many posts got debunked or verified or explained even more with sources in the comments. Because of course there is a guy or a girl somewhere learning all about one type of drywall installation for 30+ years telling everyone why this wall installation in the gif can only be in 5 mile radius in Norway.

Strangely, I already miss Me_IRL and White People Twitter. Both were fun.

r/vexillologycirclejerk

r/GymMemes

Easily the most goofy subreddit I had the pleasure of being in.

The meme / shit post subs /wetlanderhumor /cremposting /shittydaystrom /aspiememes /tenagra /adhdmemes /dankchristianmemes /mathmemes

And then local subs, cause love me some local drama.

I'll miss all my niche gaming subreddits. Path of exile, incremental games, and I even liked keeping an eye on the gacha gaming subreddit. So many more to mention like r/gamedeals, patientgamers, many more individual game subreddits.

Ask historians

Well, we won't miss anything if we move everything here. 🤷‍♂️

r/backcountry great resource for back country skiing and generally a good place to find awesome photos, trip reports, articles, and discussion. I created the community here but none of my skiing friends use social media.

https://lemmy.world/c/backcountry

r/196 - Everyone seems to have split off into 4-5 different groups, which kinda sucks. r/TwoXChromosomes, r/Lies, r/HuskyTantrums, r/UkraineConflict, r/HyruleEngineering, r/bonehurtingjuice, r/catbongos,

I'm going to miss r/datasets, r/selfhosted and other subreddits that allowed me to tap into accessible niche knowledge. I'm sure there are subs I had not yet discovered, but a lot of the information they collected over the years may be gone. I hope those communities will find their way to Lemmy and rebuild.

FWIW, selfhosted does have a sort of "best of" list on GitHub at: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

r/oldhagfashion was a really fun one!

I'm going to miss r/hockey and r/nfl. Reddit was my place to get my morning sports fix. Hoping Lemmy can grow and gain in popularity!

r/sbcgaming and r/steamdeck are my two favorites

i'm going to miss r/duggarssnark, r/askoldpeople, r/xennials, r/talktherapy, r/leopardsatemyface

All the Star Wars/comicbook movie leaks subs

r/notjustbikes. The man himself no longer wants to use reddit without third-party clients or moderate the community without access to the API, so the community is basically gone forever unless reddit decides to revert the change, which won't happen. It was the best urbanist sub and nothing can quite replace it.

r/todayifuckedup

While most of the stories are fake, I enjoy a subreddit that shows that my fuck-ups aren't so bad, after all.

I will miss r/baking, r/breadit, r/rabbits, r/old_recipes, r/askhistorians, r/archivists, r/truefilm

Just the specificity of communities you could find.

To name a few I've used frequently the past few months:

r/hardcore

r/doommetal

r/SuccessionTV

r/TheSmashingPumpkins

r/[my college]

r/[the town where I live]

I love lemmy but so far the userbase just isn't big enough to fill a lot of the niches I'm looking for. I'm excited to see the community grow though and I'm hopeful about the future.

I’ll surely miss my carefully crafted porn collection curated to my tastes. Pressing Delete button was hard.

One major area Lemmy seems to be lacking in is sport, the soccer lemmunity(?) is sparse and there isn't one for my favourite club yet :(

I am going to miss many, one of which is /r/gaybros. I have created !gaybros@lemmy.world (/c/gaybros@lemmy.world).

r/Windows10, rWindows11, and r/techsupport – since they were often the top Google search results for computer-related QnAs

I miss being able look up any niche thing I was into at the time and find an active community discussing it and making memes.

r/noncredibledefense 100%. they've reliably proved to be the most reliable right source about the war in ukraine. also extremely funny.

I'm going to miss all the weird niche subreddits I was a part of that will probably never show up here in force because there's just not enough people on Lemmy to begin the formation of such niche subreddits. The amount of users interested in those things on Lemmy will be proportionally smaller compared to the number on Reddit, and so it will make it just that much harder to have flourishing and active communities around those things.

All of the r/ImaginaryNetwork subs. Plus r/DataHoarder, r/Selfhosted

I'm gonna miss /r/buttcoin. It's a great place to watch crypto bros lose everything. How will I know when cz is arrested?

Here's my first post... I'll miss r/todayilearned, r/funny, r/showerthoughts, r/jokes, r/formula1, r/explainlikeimfive to name a few. Hopefully they'll find a new home here!

/r/hoggit and some flight simulation ones. Someone created an instance to cover this but seems it went down. I guess this madness needs some settling down.
Eventually I'll end up finding my way.

/r/feedthebeast, I love modded minecraft!

Biggest ones will probably be r/bouldering and r/climbharder.

The tech related ones will be more likely to have big replacements, but bouldering is pretty niche, so I'm not sure about that one.

I will miss all of the pev (personal electric vehicle) subs like electric scooter and electric unicycle. Seeing others on adventures and getings tips and news was great

Boru-best of redditor updates

R/earthporn, r/lab rats, r/Superbowl, r/pitbulls

r/Android
r/androidafterlife
r/androidapps
r/antiwork
r/CrackWatch
r/DataHoarder
r/fossdroid
r/GameDeals
r/MouseReview
r/opensource
r/patientgamers
r/Piracy
r/selfhosted
r/soccer

Nada. Nothing. I was there for the people, and the people that don't seem like they are just cavemen who figured out how to browse a website left Reddit and reformed every sub I was subscribed to over here already. I don't even have any specific novelty accounts to miss since every single one I knew of hasn't been around for a while as it was already, such as /u/shitty_water_colours.

If I’m being honest, I was a big browser of NSFW subreddits and I’m hoping that lemmy will grow and create a space for NSFW communities that are well-moderated and safe.

Not willing to go to reddit to confirm the name, but it was something to the affect of "Animals I didn't know existed" didn't check it much but I did enjoy when something new showed up.

illegallySmolCats, furniturerestoration, visiblemending. I love cat pictures and diy type shit.

A huge chunk of anime subreddits, some nsfw subs, mealprepsunday and 1500isplenty, suggestmeabook, antimeme, copypasta, coolguides, collapse support, and my city's subreddit (I get to know more about my city, since my residence is far away from the main center of activity). And those small communities for singleplayer rpg mobile games I found interesting. I know they're never going back, most people won't even bother with mobile as a platform for games anyway...

Gonna miss HFY and Unity groups.

r/Buttcoin

All the mycology subs, but I'm thinking of rebooting them here. All the synthesizer subs. All the subs with eerie places like r/AbandonedPorn, r/RustyRails etc.

I'm going to miss browsing r/all for a good laugh and interesting stuff. I'm going to miss stumbling upon random subreddits with topics and interests I didn't even know existed like r/Jarrarium, r/DesirePath or r/ThatBathroomMazeDream

r/GuysBeingDudes

I will miss AITA too but also not really.

I miss how it was before it became popular. I liked using it to gain a different perspective on things and to see what my own personal bias lies.

Now it’s just full of ragebait and trolls. Seems like a lot of the posts are just people trying to gain popularity through tiktok or YouTube.

I'm a bug enthusiast, so insect specific subreddits like r/moth r/weevil r/entomology

Game ones for all my random niche games I like.

But also I have a lot of health problems so going to those specific subs with my specific problem and knowing I'm not crazy felt really liberating. I know there's a new disability thing on here, but collectively being in a community with the people who have my specific problem made me feel less alone.

Several of he hobby ones. Ben Eater (6502 based computers, 8 bit computer), local ones, history/science based ones, infosec/sysadmin/etc. ones. There are some Lemmy based ones, but it'll take a while to build up. I'm hoping that I can contribute to them and see them grow a bit. But, others are just where I could comment and enjoy as I lack the real knowledge to contribute very much (the history/science ones that required more in-depth knowledge and not just a "Wikipedia degree of arts of internet research for obscure questions".

Bikini bottom Twitter, games, steamdeck, dank memes.

These were my go to on Reddit.

r/futurefunk, I met several songs there. Also r/citypop and r/VaporwaveAsthetics.

Indie game communities, I just love looking at niche memes you only understand if you have played those games, and don't let me get started on the amazing art people put in there. There are some talented and passionate people out there, I hope eventually some hop over here.

I'm gonna miss r/Art that's for sure! I loved how ppl gave different techniques a twist. It gave me hope! Most websites circlejerk around portraits and anime. Also r/depression. I use to reply post when I think I could say something helpful. Today someone committed to hospital and I'm afraid she won't be able to reach us back, ask for help, ask for someone to listen her. There's lots of niche hobbies too. I recently joined 3 and I was thrilled with these communities: r/falloutnewvegas and their witty crossovers, r/Tau40K had some cool painters and, oh boy, r/MechanicalKeyboards.

I'm going to miss all the curly hair subs, it's a niche topic but something I feel like I know a lot about. I really wanted a text based of the main sub though, apparently I found r/curlyhaircare is like that. Going to not go on reddit though as much as possible.

r/bettermentbookclub

I loved this community.

r/sp404. I miss it so much I might just make my own community here. Although, I’m not interested in moderating it cuz I don’t have the time.

Well first off, I'm gonna miss my favorite nerdy subreddits. r/wow, r/Morrowind, r/Oblivion, r/Skyrim, r/Elderscrolls, and even r/trueSTL. Happy that Skyrimmods is here though!

Aside from that though, r/botchedsurgeries, r/amitheasshole, and r/hobbydrama.

The rest would be various animal subs, but hopefully, they find new homes quickly.

r/StupidFood, I need my daily dose of stupid and disgusting food videos :(

datanalysis, userexperience, uxdesign, digitalmarketing, extramile, watchitfortheplot, coffee and combatfootage

r/Bestofredditorupdates I have no idea how long it will take any community to develop a highly active sub community for sharing and updating user stories, sometimes with years between updates.

Polandball (the mods have said they don't support the protest)

Also tales from tech support

There was a lot of leftist communities on reddit that I hope survive in some form fuckcars, antiwork, fucklawns, breadtube.

r/spacedicks

Emulation-related subreddits, for one.

r/knots

r/SWlegion and r/Warhammer40k will be dearly missed. Same with subreddits for smaller wargames and mini painting/kitbashing.

@TinMaus

r/HFY
r/HumansAreSpaceOrcs
r/TwoSentenceHorror

Edit: The communities for HFY and Humans are Space Orcs in the Fidiverse

HFY
!hfy@lemmy.world
https://lemmy.world/c/hfy

Humans are Space Orcs
!haso@sh.itjust.works
https://sh.itjust.works/c/haso

all the kink subreddits. not the ones that were just fap material cuz you can find that anywhere, but it was great seeing people talk earnestly about what makes kinks click for them and what it is they love about them

Definitely hobbydrama and nosleep.

I'm not going to miss any, because we are going to recreate them here! :)

the smaller gimmick subs, like hydrohomies the_pack. and those 2 specifically had such a positive community which is such a great breath away from the dumpster fire that is reddit

Since i'm just starting to get into home lab and self hosting I'll miss r/homelab, and r/homelabsales

I'm going to miss a lot of the hobby subs like r/Unclebens and r/datahoarder but I'm excited to see how they grow here

I liked r/whatisthis and the other subs for identifying objects and places. I rarely knew what anything was and never posted, but I learned a lot about random items!

Definitely whatisthisthing. There was a truly specialized group of finders there who're unlikely to make the move.

There needs to be a comedy podcast aggregate community. Cumtown/The Adam Friedland Show, Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast, YMH, Bad Friends, Rogan, MMP, TFATK (homeless cats only), etc, etc...

r/wellworn for sure. It was a comfort scroll for me.

I’ll miss all my goofy cat subreddits. They were kind of my go to when I was having a crap mental health day.

r/Ilguns I need that to keep up with the gun law changes in illinois and the myriad of court cases going on.

And the r/ukraine and r/ukraine conflict was where i was getting news of the war.

I found a few ukraine news here, but it will take time to get it really going.

r/crochet and r/lotrmems the most!

/r/warframe seems like a long ways to go to get DE to have a presence here.

/r/homeautomation, but not its relentless promotion of HomeAssistant

/r/permaculture which always had inspirations and answers

Reddit was better than pornhub:

/r/paag ( /u/hayleyxyz, /u/due_return_719) /r/realasians /r/tightdresses /r/nsfw /r/nsfw_gif

Daddit 100%

The countless specific cat subreddits. The Gundam and gunpla communities. These can pop back up over here but it will take time for things to feel the same.

The very specific animal subreddits like blurrypicturesofdogs or catsinwaterpackages. Always fun to find new ones or suddenly see something pop up from one of them again.

I visit /r/cars A LOT. I'm going to miss that one.

I suspect a new CARS community will pop up here pretty soon, though.

/r/watches

I'm going to miss r/bushcraft, r/hammocks, r/ebikes, and even r/worldpolitics lol

r/KDrama, and it'll be a while until anything similar ever arrives as it relies on recurring posts and a huge community for discussions 🥲

R/buildapcsales, r/animemes, and r/leopardsatemyface for sure

I will miss, among others:

r/darksouls

r/blender

r/dalle2

r/IASIP

r/youdontmattergiveup

r/SteamDeck

r/anime_titties

r/EatCheapAndHealthy

But I am hoping to find new and interesting communities to explore over here. Will have to figure out how to format my posts.

All of them. There’s so much collective knowledge stored in the comments, posts and subreddit menus, and it’s going to disappear. Stupid spez

r/unresolvedmysteries

Fitnesscirclejerk, my favorite assposting forum

SummonerSchool and CompetitiveTFT, I know there are discords but I don't like its format.

If you are actively looking for a subreddit, try use browse.feddit.de, then you can add it in the search bar

R/crt and r/crtgaming are the first that come to mind. Damn i love old tube tvs.

r/darkart r/art r/noise r/sixthworldmusic r/nosleep

Sunrise and Sourdough

The big video game communities and the Linux communities I was in. Lots of people makes it loud and dumb but also makes for good content to rise to the top

I loved r/hobbydrama, it was such a good place. :<

All the porn and nsfw content. Brings a tear to my eye.

Console and individual game ones mostly, also my local subreddit (japanlife). I'm sure I'll learn to live without them eventually, but I'm just so used to that structure that it's going to be hard at first...

The thing I will miss the most though is how RiF allows me to instantly jump to a subreddit just by typing a part of its name, no need to subscribe or anything. This is how I've been browsing for years, so having everything combined together is hard to get used to. I'll manage in time, hopefully.

For me, it's going to be r/SkyGame (the game itself speaks of humanity at its best, coupled with scenescapes and moments that will leave you agape in awe and pain), r/HFY (astounding, original stories and serials about humanity at its best, even through moments of suffering within the wider multiverse), and r/FilipinoHistory (an intelligently-enough discourse space for all things Philippine history, culture, and society as a whole).

/r/whowouldwin :(

Also /r/tiktokcringe, so many of the videos there had me nearly in tears in laughter

Not gonna lie, but for me, it's gonna be mostly the hobby relaxed ones like

r/diydrones
r/fpv
r/radiocontrol because I don't think many of them are willing to switch to another platform. The tech subs about 3d printing and stuff already exist here and simply need to grow.

bestofredditorupdates, watercolor, embroidery, fitness, fundiesnarkuncensored, cooking.. there’s a lot. This is so sad and I hope Lemmy really takes off. And if it does I hope some of these talented developers make bad ass apps for it

/r/satisfactorygame, cause its a great game, and its subreddit was a great source for knowledge and ideas. Also, /r/hardware, for the same reasons.

Bropill was an awesome recent discovery for me.

/r/OnlyFans
https://web.archive.org/web/20230325223700/https://old.reddit.com/r/OnlyFans/

HighQualityGifs and their savagely, wonderful Gif Tournament

At the moment, /r/horrorlit is one of the subs I browse the most and I haven't found a specific replacement for.

r/nosleep. It is on lemmy too but to read older stories i have to go back to reddit

the official UTDR subreddits. found some of them here but theyre pretty small (like 20 members or smth)

So many...

Wallstreetbets, NonCredibleDefense, all the comedy and podcast subs dunking on Joe Rogan. Last couple years though I got heavy into NFL Meme War subs. Those had some top tier content during the NFL season.

/r/footballhighlights

If Liverpool played at 2 in the morning in my timezone, it didn't matter because I could avoid spoilers and download the full game to watch after I woke up. Not to mention that I could then share it with my granddad, too.

I'm going to miss r/hexandcounter. Wargaming is already a niche genre of boardgaming and the hex and counter is even further niche

/r/skeptic

Homelab, rimworld, explainlikeimfive, and oneorangebraincell.

I might try making a rimworld community.

/woodworking folks posting about the stuffy the build out of wood.

I'm subscribed to a lot of band/artist subreddits, so I'm going to miss them

Going to miss r/theocho.

I'll miss those obscure highly specific traditional Italian games.

Am I The Asshole and all the crafting subs - quilting, sewing, cross stitch

I guess it depends on which ones don’t move here. Right now it’s all of them, but that might improve later.

/r/opensignups. Not sure where I'm gonna find out stuff like this. Guess there's some forums.

A bunch.

r/guineapigs - it was very helpful for new pig owners, and a great guinea pig fix when you're at work.

r/disney* - for a Disney parks nutcase like myself, the various Disney park related subreddits helped me get over the time between visits.

r/bestofredditorupdates - I get frustrated reading posts and not having any idea of how things ended up, but boru allowed me to indulge my interest in others' stories without getting frustrated by the lack of closure.

The list goes on and on.

whole food plant based discussions. I was just starting to use Reddit more than ever before and now I am gonna feel lost without a place to chat about things.

I'm going to miss my local subreddits, like r/toronto and r/askTO. They have (had?) a very active and interesting userbase. I'm going to miss the subreddits for the games I play, like The Sims and Civ. I'm going to miss the subreddits for the TV shows I follow. I'm going to miss the lady-focused subreddits, the cute animals subreddits, the mental health subreddits (which have gotten me through so much), the science subreddits, and the news subreddits. I'm a member of so many communities there that I love. I'm going to miss them all.

I founded r/recumbent - then handed it off to better folks once it took off. I still mod r/NOC and r/Apraxia. They'll all die. That's OK.

It's the people, really. Sure there are a lot of memesters and low-value content. But when you found folks that took a discussion seriously and LISTENED and put thought into their replies. The very best was when -after a few rounds- someone I started out disagreeing with taught me something. And I also taught them. Philosophy, AI Art, Music, News, Sysadmin, even sometimes in Politics. BestOf is an obvious big loss.

All the cat subs. If I was having a shitty day I could always go to reddit and look at other people's cats.

Pretty sure AITA, TIFU etc were mostly badly written fan fiction lol. Some of those stories were so far from anything that could happen in reality. I hate being so cynical and critical of everything.. ignorance is bliss

Looking at all the answers in this thread, i realised I might miss Reddit (subreddits) more than I thought.

People are going to hate me for this but I'll miss the furry subreddits like r/furry and r/furryartschool, there's a lot of cute and wholesome art posted there.

Also going to miss r/AromanticAsexual that was a good support community to discuss aspects of being aromantic-asexual and the hardships that come with it.

I'm really hoping that they'll eventually come here to Lemmy.

Always been a big user of subreddits that focus on my hobbies and interests. Hopefully those transfer over here soon enough.

/r/Strava and a bunch of the cycling ones like /r/Velo and /r/bikepacking, not very optimistic that there's much intersection between existing subsribers and those willing to leave Reddit for Lemmy but I can always live in hope!

R/daddit a big group of wholesome Bandit wannabes that I could really relate to.

r/InternetIsBeautiful

It’s just cool to see the variety of refugees here sharing memories of their previous communities in the once glorious homeland made uninhabitable by the authoritarian regime.

Daddit
Datahoarder
NBA
LegalAdvise
Pokémon

For me it's the German ones. I moved to Australia in the late 90s, and they help me keep up with things a tiny bit, so the culture shock isn't too big on my rare outings back home.

Also cats. Cats are nice.

Handwriting. I hope to see it here, because i am not looking back! >

r/Fundiesnarkuncensored, r/Digimon and r/plushies

r/musictheory
r/MostBeautiful
r/flowers
r/TikiHut
r/nature

PSA: We're still in the early stages of Lemmy. Reddit was like this too when Digg first went down. If you don't find a community you liked - make it! And once you make it, post as often as you can in it.

Professors, Watercolor, Technology, Privacy, Brogress, all the Star Trek subs. Ghosts and Paranormal. Nudism and Naturism. Fountainpens.

For most I don't think people care too much about the larger subs, but the more niche ones. Like I'm a huge wrestling fan, so watching r/squaredcircle go is sad given how it was a hub for all of pro wrestling.

The medical subreddits. So, SO much information for people. When I was newly diagnosed with something, it was very helpful to go to the sub and see how others’ lives were, tips on management, and med side effects.

r/Political compas memes. I hope that someone will make community like it there

So many niche subreddits that help me explore my hobbies. Sailing, pipe tobacco. I just got into tiki style drinks and discovered a whole sub-culture I was unaware of around this.

I think I will miss r/peoplefuckingdying, had a few laughs with that one.

People need to bring r/translator here!

I am not even sure if I am going to leave reddit forever..... Let's see what happens in the next few days.

Swans, Einstürzende Neubauten, Hoyas, Staghornfern, Gothplants, plantabuse, houseplantcirclejerks, catswithjobs, kittyhasaquestion, bestofredditorupdates, vermiculture.

Given how much effort 3rd party app developers poured into nsfw capabilities I expected to see much more in this regard.

I'm going to miss the different subreddits for individual games.

Also nonmurdermysteries.

Really gonna miss the discussion threads for pretty much any (current-ish) tv show, always my go to after finishing an episode. Also asksciencefiction was a fun one.

/r/UFOs is basically the only place I've ever found good coverage of UAP reporting. I've been looking around Lemmy and so far I haven't found anything similar.

Everyone thinks UFOs are some joke topic that should be immediately ignored whenever it comes up, but there's been huge developments in the UAP scene over the last few years, and you basically can't find good reporting outside of a dedicated subreddit, because everyone else just wants to ignore it.

My local country subreddit. There was some country spesific humour there that are hard to find elsewhere.

None of them.

All my hobby subreddits (origami, bouldering, cubers). Not nearly as big as a lot of other subs but they're great

Daddit needs to be reborn here. It was/is a good place.

Going to miss the steamdeck sub. Was a good one full of interesting tips and skins for the deck

Maybe BestofRedditorUpdates, sometimes I really enjoy getting into a nice long story, even if some of them are probably fake. Also some of my country specific subreddits.

r/LOTR for sure... Thinking about that one makes me sad.

r/screenunseen. Every few months Odeon (a big UK cinema chain) give hints to a movie and sell tickets without telling people what it is. Usually released a few days early or that won't get a wide release.

Became the sub for all things Odeon which is handy since I go so often.

Tiki. Also if anyone can link me Lemmy tiki I'd appreciate it.

Smaller specific subs like the city close to me. I see that Midwest instance is pretty big which is cool

r/dynastyff

Maybe... r/Genshin_Impact

And lots of NSFW subreddits

Edit: and also r/Genshin_Impact_Leaks. Just waiting for the big new area and characters

The niche little places like r/gpd and r/cyberdeck. They're not big communities, but they were good ones.

Local communities. I do not know why, but having people share the same social conditions makes them a warm place, even for gaming communities

r/letsnotmeet was always a fun, morbid read. I'll miss it.

r/emulationonandroid and r/androidgaming

@TinMaus some of the ios programming subreddits :(

Hobby ones. r/thesims, r/rpg, etc... And also r/transgendercirclejerk

I am going to miss my programming subreddits and r/halo. A lot of good folks over there.

r/boardsofcanada

The only communities I regularly posted to was gif subs. So I'm going to have to see about starting a server for all those categories and bring it back

r/TrueOffMyChest. Not the original OMC sub which has been commandeered by leftists and where you'll be banned just for participating in a subreddit their draconian mod team disagree with. There's a reason why TrueOMC has almost reached the same subscriber count as its predecessor, because it's not a partisan hellhole.

Something like that would be great on Lemmy.

Other than that... NSFW subreddits.