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.

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

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!

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

Ooo this is a good question. There was a similar thread about Lemmy as a whole, but Beehaw has a bit different standards...

Honestly, maybe a retro technology community? Set to include both retro gaming and other aspects like retro computing and the like. I'm sure one could use the current tech community for this, but I think setting aside a retro version could be beneficial

Something social, and positive. Like r/roastme had a opposite one called r/toastme. Rather then burn and roast OP, you gave them compliments. It was a positive thing to see.

I'd really like to see a photography community pop up. Not necessarily a /fujifilm /leica community, but a general photography place for folks to share their snaps, and get advice about techniques and gear.

"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.

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.

Perhaps a community for people over 50. (Asking for a friend. Honestly.)

Anime, for everything good and holy, please add anime lol

Sysadmin, networking, homelab

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

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.

I am a Dark Souls addict and when I quit Reddit for good on July 1st, those are the subs I'll really miss most. I'm also a history teacher and adjunct and really will suffer without /r/AskHistorians.

r/ImSorryJon

Eldritch horror Garfield is essential to any online community.

I want equivalents for:

• r/Fantasy
• r/tipofmytongue (iirc that name - the one for helping people find shit they've forgotten)
• maybe r/52books (it produces too many simple posts to just go in r/books, not sure if the same would be true here)
• r/vegetarian

Edit: r/fantasy is the biggest one for me. In effect the subreddit is really more for SciFi and Fantasy, both - and other speculative fiction - and they have a yearly speculative fiction bingo card that's really fun to participate in. It's mostly books in practice but is not exclusively about books.

Looking for "local" city and state/province communities. A place to talk about local politics, share information on upcoming events/festivals, talk about traffic and weather.

But reality is Lemmy isn't that big yet. So maybe start regional like how midwest.social is doing and divide it up when activity is too much to handle.

For me it's

• /r/selfhosted
• /r/home server
• /r/3dprinting

I’ve setup an instance focused on some niche topics and hobbies, there’s not much there yet but here they are if anyone wants!

FFXIV → https://possumpat.io/c/ffxiv

Bugs → https://possumpat.io/c/bugmenagerie

Esports → https://possumpat.io/c/esports

Gundam → https://possumpat.io/c/gundam

Star Trek → https://possumpat.io/c/startrek

I would like to see a !videos on beehaw.org.

Definitely r/retrogaming and r/gamecollecting.

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.

Meme/circlejerk/shitposting. Things like r/noncrediblediplomacy, r/linguisitcshumor, r/mapporncirclejerk, r/okbuddyholy (and Weezer in generak).

Mystery, true crime, or r/RBI type content would be all it takes to solidify my place here. Many of those communities across the web lean into their toxicity, so I’m crossing my fingers for a sane place to engage in discussion and participate in deep dives.

Even more specifically, subs like r/whatisthisthing or r/toyid are fun for people who enjoy some light sleuthing. Anyone know if there’s a Lemmy equivalent or adjacent to any of these?

I glanced briefly, but couldn't find a topic on it. What's the stance on NSFW (i.e. porn, art, etc.)?

FFXIV, stuff like /r/StoriesAboutKevin and /r/TalesFromTechSupport, and /r/xena

I miss r/actuallesbians, r/MTF, and some obscure gaming communties like r/titanfall, r/Metroid and r/Earthbound.

Oh and the brainrot known as r/okbuddychicanery and r/anarchychess.

r/vegan

And in no way, am I saying I would like to recreate that community, but a vegan friendly space with Beehaw's core values, just sound amazing to me. r/vegancirclejerk was great too, but I had personal issues with the mods.

/r/curvy . I mean, uh, /r/gardening. Yeah that one..

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.

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

One of my favourites was r/engrish, basically making fun of English misspellings. I couldn't find it so I created it over on https://vlemmy.net/c/engrish Come over and join us and share you favourite misspellings. Already posted a few of my favourites.

hmmm…. for politics I would say r/neoliberal and r/socialdemocracy

other than that r/anime r/animesuggest r/demonslayer r/19684 r/towerofgod r/lotrmemes r/historymemes and r/mrfruit

Travel-focused communities would be lovely, akin to r/travel and r/solotravel among others.

anime

but at the same time I can see how another lemmy instance could be setup for being more anime/japan stuff oriented

Off the top of my head communities like

r/3rprinting r/instantpot r/todayilearned r/therewasanattempt r/space r/changemyview r/unpopularopinion

I really enjoy the specific game based communities but obv that is a bit of an umbrella.

I would personally like a fine art related community. Something for critique and discussion of art and art history. It seems like many places I’ve been before turn their nose up at anything abstract or outside the realms of traditional western art.

I'm not sure if it's within scope of beehaw, 'cause I know that the meme page here already asks for people not to upload images directly to save server space (which I totally respect) but I really lurked and enjoyed r/egg_IRL and r/traa and I'm definitely keeping my eye out for where the trans meme share lands.

I'd love to see local community pop up like /r/WashingtonDc or whatever town state you're in

My wishlist:

• Movies
• Europe
• Soccer
• Apple

Soccer and photography are probably the two main ones that come to mind for me. I'm really happy to see the new writing community, and I'm excited to see more specific creative communities come about.

Crafting communities! I love seeing what people make in r/crochet and r/Brochet and they also tend to have really welcoming and kind users :)

Are there any diy communities?

Didn't see a Futurama community... So I made one.. Come on over!!! https://lemmy.world/c/futurama

Once I get back home next week I am going to start my own server for paganism/heathenry/animism

I can't seem to find a movies one, best part of Reddit was looking up discussions of the recently released movies

r/analog, and more generally r/photography

I really like changing my wallpapers, so something for mobile wallpapers. Also, I really enjoyed r/

whatisthisthing for wacky things people found

askdocs and legaladvice for advise on when to seek professional assistance

askreddit (which I see some posts, along with AMA-type things on c/chats)

YouShouldKnow and LifeProTips

Outoftheloop to ask questions for summaries (e.g., Why is everyone talking about Johnny Depp?)

NBA iphone photography, ask photograpy, beginner photography politics

I loved the insanity of wallstreetbets. Hm. Maybe better off without lol

What about "Tech Support," or should that just be part of "Technology?"

r/outside

Media-related communities such as r/plex r/sonarr r/radarr plus the other *arrs and related like plex meta manager

/r/ExMormon

• More vinyl record collector communities. Always loved finding new music and seeing what interesting things people are picking up.
• Communities for specific, niche genres of music. Synthwave, mallcore, house music, jazz, etc.
• Archery! Love seeing the kind of things people are shooting, how people are shooting, getting advice, giving advice and learning new things about the sport.
• Geographically centered communities. I like having communities for my local state and cities to see what's going on in the area. Way more informative than local news.

For me it's all the photography-related communities. Photography, Cinematography, Analog, & Astrophotography are the primary ones.

I'd like to see a community specifically dedicated to tabletop RPGs. Don't think I've seen one of those yet.

I’d love to see a community for pro wrestling! The industry as a whole has made a lot of progress towards being inclusive. It has a long ways to go of course, but an even longer way for the social media communities to be less toxic and more thoughtful in content and discussions.

/r/hockey is the biggest one that's holding me back from making the leap full time to lemmy.

Also wanted to add that a comics equivalent would be nice if there isn't one already. I doubt many of the longtime artists would migrate fully, but it would at least be another platform that could get them greater reach.

/r/guitar, for those of use who struggle (and suck) at self-learning this amazing instrument.

Definitely r/genshin_impact

Something akin to /r/CharacterRant with interesting critique and analysis of media. Most of the same rules would apply and as long as people don't get into flame wars it would be a great fit for Beehaw. It would require a good bit of moderation, though.

/r/telescopes or any equivalent for practical astronomy. There are a couple of communities but they're not active at all.

The only community I really miss is r/todayilearned. Just some quick, interesting facts. Having an alternative here would be fantastic.

Looks like no one's mentioned it... I'd like a British community. Maybe for discussing news in our corner of the world, maybe just for casual talk like /r/CasualUK.

r/Aquariums, r/PlantedTanks, r/Aquascape !

Scuba diving! 🤿

Or just diving / water sports in general (although probably more thought should go into picking the name...). Specifically scuba is probably too niche to make an active community at this point in time, but it feels a little out of place in a more general sports community.

r/scuba was always a fun place to go and see people's cool videos of marine life and underwater selfies, as well as being a good place to ask questions and discuss gear.

I saw it sort of mentioned, but I think niche shitposting communities like the various okbuddy subs.

r/momforaminute was lovely but might verge a bit too much into mental health support unless guard rails are made for such a community.

DIY music making using DAWs (digital audio workstations). My personal preference being Reaper for its flexibility and low cost.

Marx-Lenin

Videos/mealtimevideos was a big thing for me. They kept me entertained while I ate lunch, lol.

I agree, a lot of the PC building communities would be nice to have here

A sub for Bike Mechanic stuff - either submit a photo/issue, or brag about new tools kind of thing

Running, advanced running, running shoe geeks. Please?

Game related communities (/r/tf2, /r/chess to name a few!)

Edit: Just realised I want some tech-related stuff like /r/homelab, /r/selfhosted, /r/privacy, /r/homeserver and more too

/r/games for me. I really like keeping tabs on gaming news.

r/LiveFromNewYork, r/whatcouldgowrong, r/sploot, r/greebles, r/blep, r/GooglePixel

If you find them interesting try setting one up! Id be sure to follow as i also have enjoyed those communities!

I'd love to see a communities for: (some of these may be around, but I haven't searched for them yet)

Turn-based RPGs (BG3 for example) Real time with pause would also fit into turn-based.

Action/adventure (TOTK would be here).

JRPG

AmITheAsshole

Communities for the different US states and the biggest city in the state.

ebikes

electric cars

Fitness (a general one and women and men's communities just because the focus is often quite different between the two)

Weightlifting

Nextfuckinglevel

Parrots or pet birds

Birdwatching

Restless leg syndrome (any any other chronic condition like lupus, MS etc)

Uplifting news

Woodworking

Carving (more niche, only carving not furniture making)

Kayaking

Sewing

Photography software and techniques

A View from my Window (or deck, or yard. focus on where you live, not glamor vacation pix)

City Planning (a place to discuss how to get involved in city politics to do things like create biking paths, better sidewalks, etc.)

KindleScribe (or any e-ink device you write/draw on like Remarkable, Boox, Supernote)

Longevity (research focused on health extension and longer life spans)

These may be too specific, but I thought I'd toss them all out there. Sorry for the craptacular lack of formatting. I forgot to hit the list style button.

r/babybumps, r/financialindependence, r/benignexistence

FFXIV, stuff like /r/StoriesAboutKevin and /r/TalesFromTechSupport, and /r/xena

/r/chaosmagick