At first I read “would not like to see replicated” and I almost got upset, haha.

For me:

• Fountain pens
• Communities for different countries/regions or different language-speakers - on Reddit, I often lurked /r/de, /r/Philippines, etc.
• Mechanical keyboards
• Woodworking
• Oddly satisfying
• Star Trek
• Battlestations

I definitely second BIFL, Antiwork, and different communities for U.S. states, as I don’t often get to connect with other people from Texas on the Fediverse.

I was a big fan of /r/justrolledintotheshop.

A similar community here would be tons of fun!

• Eli5 and eli7 were nice.
• infrastructureporn, ruralporn etc. were also quite interesting.
• partyparrot was awesome.
• catswithjobs
• dndmemes was fun

hooray my first federated platform comment, spent over a decade on Reddit and happy something else looks to be growing big enough to be a viable alternative.

I tend to love long form text based subs. Ones I particularly enjoy where I can’t currently scratch their respective itch anywhere else on the Internet:

/r/changemyview /r/bestofredditorupdates /r/legaladvice (mainly for the (/r/bestoflegaladvice goodies) /r/bestof /r/maliciouscompliance /r/prorevenge /r/amitheasshole and all of the /r/talesfrom[profession] subs

yeah I know half of these are often glorified fiction writing subs but I enjoy the stories regardless

askhistorians

Camping & Hiking related communities. Kind of hit me this morning that it was a major hole I have not yet filled from my time on Reddit.

I ended up making a community for that here, but I’m not sure if there’s already one out there. https://links.dartboard.social/c/campingandhiking

I would like to make a community for Québec City, bilingual at least

Also

• r/webdev
• R/fuckCars
• R/ionic or r/capacitor . These are from the same company.

r/HobbyDrama. Fantastic reading material when you’re bored. I actually still have a backlog of saved posts on Reddit that I want to get through from there (preferably sooner rather than later…).

I really wish something like /r/Fitness or /r/Bodyweightfitness could gain traction on here! I miss the daily question threads and discussions about exercises, techniques, routines and things like that.

My niche hobby and snark communities, like AmericanGirl, FundieSnarkUncensored, DuggarsSnark, and HobbyDrama. I hope to see them resurrected elsewhere with just as good of moderation and communities as they had on Reddit. I know a lot of websites say they don’t want drama but a well-moderated drama community is a public service that keeps fights contained.

I feel like there’s a lack of communities dedicated to specific games. Sure, I can see communities for Pokemon and Zelda right now, albeit on lemmy.ml

But somehow, we don’t have any major Minecraft communities? I liked the subreddits for modded Minecraft and Hermitcraft. Apart from that, the Terraria sub had its moments as well.

Some of the ones I’ll be looking for replacements for:

• 3d6, or equivalent discussion of DND/RPG builds and mechanics.

• something like AskHistorians, which I know will be hard to replace considering the verification and moderation around it.

• local city subreddits, I really liked having one for my home town or places I might visit.

• honestly, I could see Chat taking the place of something like AskReddit.

r/politics r/WorldNews r/anime_tiddies

Kinda dumb but some of the “obscure humor” (for a lack of a better term) subreddits I kinda miss, like r/comedyheaven, r/skamteboard, r/oldpeoplefacebook, etc. The meme communities I’ve found on the fediverse, while totally fine, don’t really scratch the same itch for me lol.

I’d love to see some art stuff; some of my favorite subreddits were:

• minipainting
• sewing
• we are the music makers
• sketching
• art timelapse