It doesn't work that way, sadly. Successful niche communities split off from bigger ones after there is enough shared interest to make the split necessary. Creating a new empty community from nowhere will likely result in its staying empty. That is the state of many niche communities we already have.

One that shows big machinery. Like cranes, trains, excavators and stuff like that

/r/happycowgifs

Seems dumb, but having your feed interspersed with random happy cows just makes all the terrible headlines less terrible.

Pictures from inside power plants.

All the little niche TV subs, there's a Doctor Who one here, which is soooo much nicer than the reddit one, but I haven't found any of my other shows. I'd quite like the trashy TV ones cause I joined facebook groups and I want to talk about like, internalised misogyny in Sister Wives, but all the discussions are like "Robyn has a fat bum, hahaha".

Adult Children of Alcoholics and Disfunctional Families. Started one but not much activity: !adultchildren@lemm.ee

Game emulation communities should be larger.

I don't think it's big enough to support small separate communities yet. I think we need to let smaller similar communities exist inside larger ones

/r/weightroom was a great little community and resource with high quality posts for folks interested in weightlifting and getting stronger. It is the community that I miss the most from reddit. It helped me learn how to use barbells, evaluate routines and change my physique dramatically. Literally changed the trajectory of my life

I miss /r/rain and /r/cosyplaces

British panel shows.

Listed links to stream episodes of shows like Taskmaster, Have I Got News For You, QI, Would I Lie to You, and 8 out of 9 Cats do Countdown.

When daily news and life got too grim, it offered 30-60m of just brain dead funny distraction. Now, have to put up with Google and Youtube search bullshit and most of the time they're wrong.

I don't know why exactly, but I've been missing VXJunkies lately. Sometimes you just want to spew cool sounding nonsense for no good reason. But I think you need a big user pool to pull from to keep a community like that humming.

Project Zomboid community.

R/dumb phones R/Jeep r/diesel R/offroad

There’s not many of us, but I wish more fans of the Aubrey/Maturin series were here. Also Discworld.

Pretty much all the communities I used to be a part of in my Reddit days were... pretty toxic to say the least. I don't think I'd ever wanna go back to experiencing that again.

This is why I'm an immigrant.

I wish there were more philosophy related communities

I don't know. If I miss some kind of news or funny pictures from reddit I go to lemmit.online. And I created !cfs@feddit.de myself because I missed it.

Pathfinder TTRPG. There are plenty of sublemmies (is that what they're called) for Pathfinder but none of them are active like the Reddit r/Pathfinder. 😢

Sometimes, when I've researched something and compiled a ton of useful information about a topic... wish there was a lemmy for that. Kind of the opposite of asklemmy.

Snack exchange

Sports subs for my favorite teams, game day threads used to be a lot of fun watching along with everyone around the world

Meet your maker game instance. It's already pretty small on Reddit but would love to see maps over here

Well, there are all that come to mind, but neither is particularly active.

• !wwdits@lemmings.world
• !czech@lemmy.world
• !palworld@lemmy.world

Any community dedicated to a specific anime or manga series. I liked seeing fanart and inside joke memes.