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Ancient coins. There's a sub on Lemmy but it's sadly unpopulated. I miss being able to interface a bit with other collectors, but fuck my ass if I have to go back to Reddit for that.
I digged down in what coins (they overlapped usually IIRC) had the highest probability of have being manipulated by jesus or the supposed apostles. Wasn't that expensive if my memory is right to get a bunch with a high probability.
Not exactly niche but I'd like to see some active gardening and diy communities. The existing ones aren't very active.
Maybe in springtime. which ones are you subbed to?
Hopefully now discussion blooms then
Software Defined Radio, Ham Radio, RF Electronics, amateur satellites and Meshtastic.
The only community I am (more than) fully satisfied with here is Linux.
Oh, but also communities like askdentists, psoriasis, etc. Those were pretty helpful on Reddit.
There is not much Lemmy communities for discussion specific/centered around specific entertainment media (video games, anime & manga, web videos, etc)
Back when I’m still on Reddit, I’m used to lurking around a lot of these kind of communities on that site. Community centered around video game franchise like The Legend of Zelda and Sonic the Hedgehog, content creators like Linus Tech Tips and Hololive, and even some niche topics like Windows 10 LTSC and Otonokizaka
Those kinds of subreddits simply doesn’t have any equivalent in Lemmy, and even if it did, it is far far more inactive compared to its Reddit counterpart. To me that is one of the biggest problem with Lemmy right now and kinda could be a reason why there is still many user who sticked into Reddit and does not 100% migrated to Lemmy.
more linguistics
more geography
The only reason I check Reddit with any regularity anymore is for content local to where I live. There's a few communities on the fediverse for my area, but with only minimal, sporadic activity.
I would love to see more activity around fostering animals, particularly cats. I started !fosteranimals and have participated over at !fosterkittens, but it seems there's not many of us so far.
Hobby machining, automotive, scca.
Maybe I need to think about hosting.....
I do miss justrolledintotheshop.
Yesss. I need my mechanic shitposting back I love those boys
I have a few!
Beginners/basic programming for non-IT. There’s a lot of people that might want to do very simple things with arduino or other mini computers. Python, or even simple Linux tasks, that don’t want to start a whole “Programming lessons A-z” multi-stage class-format learning adventure.
I wish there was somewhere to talk about Counter-Strike, particularly the e-sports scene.
Ironically, I want somewhere to talk about Counter-Strike excluding the e-sports scene. There is nowhere to learn smokes, share maps, or even find a team.
Headphones and audiophile stuff, especially IEMs.
Would love to see more crochet content, there is alot of posts in the knitting community here, but the crocheting ones feel dead.
shrimptank, aquariums, various weird animal subs :(
I need morrowind and portal communities.
Romhacking!
Frogs.
Magical/Sacred plants.
There are very active communities on Reddit for magical/sacred plants and even some for selling/trading them. I mostly collect San Pedro cacti among a few others and would love an active community like that here.
Not a hobby, but I would love to see more mental health communities that address things like anxiety, ADHD, ASD or for the ones that exist to get more traction. The lack of these things is the only reason I return to Reddit from time to time.
Pegging
Circuit Bending!!! Moreso, just broad "soldering" representation; places for unique soldering projects. Soldering hacks, solder jobs to brag about, beginners tips etc. Would be cool to have niches within the community too for different "soldering genres" like circuit bending
The weather. Be it local weather discussion pages, country etc. especially for big events.
More sports like NFL, college basketball, baseball, etc. There are communities for these, but they're not very active.
Random educational posts, like stuff that is actually useful. Like physics lessons.
(Original) drawings, paints, sketches made by the OP. Talk about paint, inks, papers, ...work in progress stuff, problems & solutions.
Cacti/succulents and wine (the fermented grape juice one, not the linux one). There are cactus and succulent communities in Lemmy, but they're not very active, and wine obes are completely dead...
Not that I was into it that much, but I did love seeing pics of fungus on reddit once I found that place.
SuperbOwl I’d going along nicely. The fungus one would probably do well with a dedicated kickstart.
My reddit subs I guess were all niche.
Curlyhair and Tampa (dead here, and were getting a little toxic on Reddit)
Cocktails (I mod !cocktails here, it's growing slowly and organically, doing ok, nice place)
Normal Nudes and Naked Progress (not here and I can't figure out how to set up a community on NSFW, and honestly modding anything NSFW is a slog I don't know if I can handle, certainly not alone)
Lockpicking (along with the ranking system) would be great, plus it was the nicest, most friendly sub I've ever been in
Swordsmanship.
Whether it's HEMA or otherwise (as long as it's not fencing)
Not exactly a hobby. But lost media/lost wave.
Game dev
Aerial arts - silks, trapeze, flying pole, lyra, straps, custom apparatus like cubes/chairs etc. Anything about doing artistic acrobatics on a piece of metal/fabric/other suspended in the air. The community on reddit was the perfect size but pretty much none of them came over to lemmy.
A lot of the more nish writing sub's like magic building or fantasy writers.
scale models.
Individual communities for every car in existence like reddit has. And an active bitcoin community that isn't just a bot mirroring posts from reddit.
Edit: and a community for DJs.
Programming languages. (Not programming in general, but specifically language design.)
Aviation/Flying. r/flying had been a pretty much daily stop for me prior to leaving reddit as it was one of they only good places to talks with other pilots. I'd love to have a place to chat with other pilots and/or homebuilt aircraft folks rather than a dozen or so barely maintained forum sites.
It's not even that niche imo, but just more music production content in general. There was an instance focused on this a few months ago, but it seems to have gone and not returned.
On Reddit, you have communities of music makers around theory, various genres, various software, synths, and deals. It's definitely a source of inspiration I miss.
