Don't be afraid to create your own communities!

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 :(

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

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

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.

Definitely hobbydrama and nosleep.

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.

HighQualityGifs and their savagely, wonderful Gif Tournament

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

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/crochet and r/lotrmems the most!

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...

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.

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

Also tales from tech support

/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

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.

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.

Bikini bottom Twitter, games, steamdeck, dank memes.

These were my go to on Reddit.

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

EDIT: r/manga too....

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.