More women-oriented communities would be great. Skincare, makeup, women's fitness, female health, nail polish, aging. I'd love that.

AskHistorians

Actually active formuladank community

All of the individual games I play and not just the general "gaming" subs. Plenty of video game enthusiasts on Lemmy; not enough to geek out over specific games. Or at least... Not the ones I play.

SpeedofLobster! A good lobster always cracked me up.

Writing Promts was cool

and the camouflage community (I may be very biased lol)

/r/liberalgunowners was a favorite. Everyone was so nice and accepting. We'd answer the same noob questions all day, no problem. None of "MuH 2A!" crap, nobody bloodthirsty. Anyway, I could go on, but it was nice while it lasted.

A community for the car I own, no matter what it is. (With thousands of active members, of course.)

A general simracing community that's not hosted on .ml

I want lostmedia and unsolvermysteries communities to exist and be more active.

There's ![email protected], but it's been dead for a while. I kinda miss reading those stories about assholes getting what they asked for.

Another that was fun reading occasionally was scambait, where people would fuck with scammers to waste as much of their time as possible. I don't know if there's anything like that on Lemmy.

Reddit had a few really good and active lifting communities. There were interesting program reviews, sometimes everyone would run super squats together and report on the various effects of drinking a gallon of whole milk per day on the digestive tract. And I could help others join in and start lifting themselves into their best selves, since not many people in my real life circle are interested

I wouldn't mind some of the Random Acts to come over and be more active. Even though I never used it, I always thought the idea of the Random Acts of Pizza was a grand idea for those who are in need.

Talesfromyourserver!

Model railroading. Even on Reddit those subs weren't super active, but they at least existed.

Magic the Gathering. There's actually 3 here already, but somehow none of them really scratch the itch to just talk about deckbuilding. And again, the 3 that are here are fairly quiet. Just doesn't seem to be the critical mass needed.

DankChristianMemes. Was just fantastic. Perhaps the best 'neutral' ground I ever saw for Christians & Atheists to laugh at themselves & each other.

R/raisedbynarcissists for sure.

The small niche communities are the ones I'll probably never see again, like /r/reverseanimalrescue /r/TheNightFeeling /r/darknetplan

Communities for identifying random stuff! Rocks, plants, bugs, fossils, that weird thingy in your grandma's kitchen... I love lurking on them because I learn to notice more in my day-to-day life. The downside is that they need more active moderation to weed out wrong or unhelpful comments.

And on a related note, communities for admiring natural stuff, à la mineralporn.

Psychonaut, DPH, heavymind, ObscureMedia, paintxp

Parent/Trying for pregnancy/pregnancy.

I found the pregnancy conversations on Reddit (while I was on Reddit is fun) to be much less toxic than on those discussion forums on pregnancy apps.

modernquilts / modernquilting, I used to look in that R and ppl shared progress pictures and finished modern quilts. Was a great source of inspiration. #modernquilts on fedi/pixelfed is quite empty unfortunately

I grew and modded the K League (Korean football) sub previously, and I've wondered about starting one Lemmy. I would like one to be here so that I can can keep up with what's happening easily, but I also kinda like not having a feeling of responsibility to post stuff regularly.

If I did start one, does anyone know if there's any technical problems with creating and modding a comm on an instance different from your home instance?

I really miss bpt sometimes. Can't stand to be on actual twitter, but reddit wasn't so awful a medium to discuss highlights when I was still on the platform.

Jambands/Grateful Dead type stuff.

Yes I know there are groups out there, but no one is extremely active. I'll give it time: Weir Everywhere

unfortunately the things I would most like are things I don't currently participate in that I greedly would love to be in the loop about. so pathfinder, star trek online, and champions online.

[email protected]

There appears to be nothing here yet that can rival https://old.reddit.com/r/advice.

Dad for a minute and internet parents! They were my favourite

[email protected]

It exists, but there is almost nobody writing. I also haven't seen any other writing communities. I'm not interested in writing, usually, but I always enjoy reading what others have wrote.

HFY is basically the only reason I get on Reddit nowadays.

UsbCHardware

Comic_Crits and ctpsd creatives. Somewhere to post personal comic art to share and receive feedback.

Sometimes I struggle with writing prompts for AI and I don't understand why it is not doing what I want. I wish there was a active community for helping with that.

For example I wanted it to go through this post https://piefed.jeena.net/post/125521 and list all the movies mentioned and augment them with the release date, director and genre. But it already fails at just finding the movies mentioned. I thought this is a perfect thing to do for AI which I can do easily manually but it just takes time, but nope.

I never actually participated in discussions on there, but r/soccer is still my go-to source for keeping up to date with football news. That's probably the one I feel the most.

I'm very new so I haven't explored much yet, but I wish there were more subcomminities of the communities, like for example on Reddit there's subreddits for metal, but also subreddits for specific artists within that.

Or how there's all the gaming communities but not many sub communities for specific games outside of maybe some of the larger games/game series.

I guess just more niche or deeper within a specific topic communities I'd say. But there may just not be enough people to go super specific with communities yet. Or I haven't found them yet.

I miss national and regional meme communities such as 2visegrad4u. Cultural and historical context makes the memes flow much better.

Without a doubt, it's Queens of League. It's an unhinged, thirsty gay mob shitposting about League of Legends.

I would've thought GURPS would be more represented in the Lemmy demographics.

chess, linguistics, my country, my profession. Last two aren't even worth clarifying

Books suggestions or suggest me a book were cool. Anything regarding reading (I found horror lit here) or books :)

hobbydrama!

Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game

I'd love if the Dead by Daylight community was more active here

Communities for news, papers, and general conversation around humanities and social sciences. Communities for underground music (e.g., goth music).

A nudist/naturist sub would be really nice, been missing out on events lately so at least chatting about it would help shake the feeling of isolation.

Also, a space for plural systems would be super appreciated. We wouldn't really know what to say in it but it's really cool meeting other systems and learning about them.

-Finn (fae/she)

Off the top of my head:

Learning Polish

True Crime

Cat Pictures

Wildlife Pictures

Jaguars the big cats, not the car lol

Admiral Cloudberg

Relationship questions

I miss my cheap knockoff watch sub r/ChinaTime

Eurovision!

How about Books That Feel Like This ? I always found good book recs there.

Bionicle.

The Bionicle subreddit is very active, but there is no active alternative on Lemmy.