Art/design related communities. I made a few here but I was the only one posting. Also miss the model making/diorama/mini painting subs. And some other little niche hobby communities.

Oh also local city communities are basically nonexistent here and it will prob take years for that to become viable here.

There are some small, niche reddit communities I miss. Unfortunately since this part of the fediverse is small, the niche communities are even smaller. Either moderated by one person and no posts, or it just doesn’t exist.

I miss the regional/local subs. While there’s technically a few for my region spread across different instances, none of them have much, if any, activity.

Of the more “niche” communities, the one I miss the most is r/fosteranimals. I started one here, and have posted a few times, but given the already limited audience, plus my inexperience at growing/moderating a community, and my tendency to be mostly a lurker, I have not managed any engagement in the community beyond up/down votes.

A populated am I the asshole. That one really needs a critical mass of all sorts of people to be fun. When my GF and I go out to eat we generally pull the top posts of the week and talk em over while we eat. It’s a great conversation starter and a wonderful way to find out little stories that don’t come up in everyday conversation.

/r/BestOfRedditorUpdates

I still go back to read the weekly /top posts. Lots of interesting drama.

Essentially all of the ones that I used. r/Minecraft, r/minecraftsuggestions, r/conlangs, r/vexillology, r/pixelart, etc.

The thing is that all of these have communities and magazines on the fediverse — it’s just that there’s little, if any, activity on them. I don’t think you can really say that these communities are here if they have one person posting on them regularly.

The only communities that actually have a solid amount of activity here are ones about memes and news. If that’s all that you used Reddit for, then the fediverse is doing great, and such people will act baffled at how anyone could stay on or miss Reddit. But for everyone else, the content just isn’t there.

Some very nische anime communitys, but that would require more users in the first place.

malicious compliance

while curbing the number of “challenged the cook to test my spice tolerance and lost” posts

It’s deffo r/Flairwars and r/Num for me, despite not having been in the latter in the time I was on that site.
Both have their own unique inside jokes, battling systems, lore, fanworks, and most of all, a slow yet steadily thriving community that’s accepting of everyone. I often wonder how my first aforementioned community would thrive in this vast federated space, especially with all the new possibilities out here… Maybe new lore expansions, and a reinvigoration on the way?

Eyeblech.

It’s one of the reasons I created Morbid Curiosity in Kbin, to push things a little towards such material!

There are some small niche communities that I miss interacting with because the people were pretty cool. Mostly warhammer and some smaller game communities.

Lately I’ve been having to go back to Reddit to look at the gloryhammer and Dyson sphere program subs. The 2nd one has been more used after the recent update, just wish I could load any mods

The hololive and vtuber communities weren’t able to make the switch. They’re here but they’re not active enough to actually keep up with.

Plus the talents related don’t know fediverse exists and barely even knew reddit existed, so they generally only post on reddit if anywhere (they mostly are only aware of twitter)

I still check /r/hockey for sports news since I feel like it’s the best way to keep up on all events compared to Shitter or HFBoards. The quality of discussion and friendliness of the community had been pretty good from between 2010-2020, a really good stretch that I can’t say was the same for most subreddits I used to follow. From 2020 on, there was a rapid change in tone on that subreddit as more and more angry dbags from Shitter started to frequent it more regularly and it became a not so fun place to engage with anymore.

I recently inherited /m/hockey here. I plan on being more active there in the near future by trying to create multi-topic news summary posts on a weekly basis.

I just started shroom hunting when I left Reddit. I’ve learned a fair bit about growing mushrooms since then on the fediverse but I know little about identifying them. I keep finding wild portobellos and I’m too scared to try them! (Yes, identified by gill, cap, spore, and stem discoloration)