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

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    For me, the real magic of Reddit was in hyperspecific niche communities full of hobbyist experts – or even professionals. Places like r/tolkienfans.

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      Unfortunately that is only possible when you have a very large user base; it’s the only thing still keeping me (a bit) on Reddit

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    I’d like to see a book suggestion community with a decent number of requests. Something like r/booksuggestions or r/suggestmeabook. Most of what I did on Reddit was recommend books in response to requests.

    I wouldn’t mind seeing a New England community, either. Or Massachusetts one. I’d start one up, but I don’t know if I could handle the moderation responsibilities!

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    I’d love to see communities about:

    • crafting (fibre crafts like knitting and spinning in particular)
    • classical music
    • photography
    • Latin
    • history (r/askhistorians?)
    • cats
    • art
    • cooking
    • writing
    • Star Trek
    • menopause
    • AuDHD
    • birdwatching
    • gardening
    • reading
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    Sysadmin, networking, homelab

    Begs the question. Is there a way to request a new community on beehaw?

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        Thanks!. Found it just after the comment. There was a instance called infosec.pub the other day that seemed to have some promise. Seems down now as well.

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            Yeah I sent the admin a note via dm and it was back this afternoon. I’m thinking just the web-ui was borked. Not sure. Also unsure if it was correlation or causation.

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              Nice, appreciate it. I wanted to check it out earlier but it was still offline. Your comment reminded me to check back.

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      Same here, it was nice to have a global water cooler to see what peoples experiences with various vendors tended to be, and just to hear what was going on.

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    Might not be the most popular option but a shitposting sub along the lines of 196/197/19684 is the major one for me. Would also love to see a 3dprinting community, but I kinda think something along the lines of technical hobbies/niches are a best case scenario for new services joining the fediverse.

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      Ooh that is the kind of content that would really make me feel at home. We need a corner for stupid humor.

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          True, but places like 19684 have a certain flavor of humor. It’s like absurdism had a baby with r/dank_memes while occasionally huffing brake cleaner. 😂

          Beehaw isn’t ready for it yet as we need to get bigger, but eventually I could see it thriving here.

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            Haha yeah, that seems a pretty accurate gist of it. You’re right though, think its just a thing that will come with time and the number of folk start to necessitate subdividing things a little.

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    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.

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      Yep. I’m just happy the stanley cup will be done by the time I get off reddit. Definitely need will need something for NFL tho

      That being said, I think those should happen on other instances, not all on beehaw. Its a different philosophy than reddit

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    There was a time when /r/youtubehaiku was one of my most visited subs. It would be great to see more short weird videos that give you a little chuckle.

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      Yup retrogaming is a big one for me. I may have to further look into hosting a lemmy instance on my server.

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    Whatever hyper-specific place lets me rant about how everyone misuses PDFs. …And a BattleTech sub.

    Heck, just generally, I wish Lemmy was more like… spin up a server and you’ve basically got a subreddit. Rather than having these big mostly-isolated attempts at being everything.

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    AskBeehaw. PC Gaming, Retro gaming, different communities for each major console.

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    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.

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    “Indie Products”- a place for people to nerd out about stuff made by small independent makers and for indie makers to find support maybe? I’m not a maker myself but I really enjoy buying from small businesses and finding out about cool products.