Asklemmy

A lot of these aren't exactly "niche", but afaik none of them exist on lemmy yet

Edit: for some reason, a bunch of these that actually do exist weren't showing up in search unless I specifically searched for "!community@instance". I've gone back through and added links to them here.

r/actuallesbians
~~r/anarchychess~~ !anarchychess@sopuli.xyz
r/anime_irl
~~r/animemes~~ !animemes@lemmy.ml
r/beyblade
r/bropill
r/conlangs
~~r/datahoarder~~ !datahoarder@lemmy.ml
r/ddlc
~~r/egg_irl~~ !egg_irl@lemmy.ml
r/femboymemes
~~r/forbiddensnacks~~ !forbiddensnacks@lemmy.ml
r/gravityfalls
r/heraldry
r/heraldrycirclejerk
r/infinitytrain
r/katawashoujo
r/leopardsatemyface
r/logh
r/lycorisrecoil
r/madeinabyss
r/madokamagica
~~r/math~~ !math@lemmy.ml
r/mathmemes
r/mbtimemes
~~r/mechanicalkeyboards~~ !mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml
r/mushokutensei
r/musictheory
r/nails
r/nextfuckinglevel
~~r/oshinoko~~ !oshi_no_ko@lemmy.ml
~~r/philosophy~~ !philosophy@lemmy.ml !philosophy@mander.xyz
r/photoshopbattles
r/playstupidgames
r/pokemongo
~~r/portal~~ !portal@lemmy.ml
r/princessesofpower
~~r/programmerhumor~~ !programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
r/shitduolingosays
r/shitpostcrusaders
r/stardustcrusaders
r/stevenuniverse
~~r/swordartonline~~ !swordartonline@lemmy.ml
~~r/talesfromtechsupport~~ !talesfromtechsupport@compuverse.uk
r/the10thdentist
~~r/thinkpad~~ !thinkpad@lemmy.ml
~~r/tokipona~~ !toki_pona@lemmy.ml
r/touchfluffytail
~~r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns~~ !traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@lemmy.ca
r/transadorable
r/transprogrammer
~~r/transhumanism~~ !transhumanism@lemmy.ml
r/transtrans
~~r/visualnovels~~ !visualnovel@lemmy.ml !visualnovels@lemmy.comfysnug.space
r/wholesomeyuri
r/yurimemes

r/piracy

r/electronics

r/rce

r/diy

r/diyaudio

r/diwhy

r/edm

r/edmproduction

r/angryupvote

r/masterhacker

r/mathmemes

r/sciencememes

r/physicsmemes

r/chemsitrymemes

r/bilogymemes

r/onejob

r/outoftheloop

r/printers

r/redneckengineering

r/torrents

r/tvtoohigh

r/winehq

r/youtubedl

r/weird

/r/talesfromtechsupport /r/maliciouscompliance and /r/prorevenge always give me a chuckle.

r/usbchardware

r/goldenretrievers

r/singapore

r/nottheonion

r/antiwork

r/impracticaljokers

There are several groups on reddit that I have enjoyed, and am going to really miss unless I find some fediverse versions. It's the agony columns, all the ones where people ask for advice. Like r/AITA, and r/RomanticAdvice. There are so many of them.

What are some similar ones in this platform?

r/Arduino!

r/HobbyDrama or a more hobby oriented history community. Also r/AskHistorians or similar, although that one will take more effort and setting up than simply making the community. I personally use Reddit to see a couple memes and then read both of the subs I mentioned. I like seeing people who are passionate about a thing talk about the history of that thing.

MLB, NFL, NBA, etc. communities

Most of these are on Reddit, but there may be a few that I thought could be specific, but not as niche as some of the ones on reddit. (like no community just for one game)

Van conversion/van life

Birding

Camping and hiking

AmITheAsshole

Each state in the US

Longevity

Kindlescribe/e-ink

RestlessLeg (or a chronic condition community)

Woodworking (bigger builds)

Carving (smaller builds, not furniture or big stuff)

Nutrition

NextFuckingLevel

JRPG

Turn-Based RPGs

Action/Adventure Games

/r/sweden /r/languagelearning /r/svenska /r/girlgamers and /r/witchesvspatriarchy

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 to check them out:

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

Xenoblade → https://possumpat.io/c/xenoblade

/r/pencils It's not weird I like pencils!

I would like r/autism

/r/FreeGameFindings

I would like to see r/stunfisk, its the main pokeon subreddit of the smogon single battles format, but it would be really cool if the pokemon subs would get together and make their own lemmy instance

I was going to say /r/ExperiencedDevs, but it looks like they made an official instance at programming.dev. So that's pretty great.

randnsfw 😏

r/woodworking would be nice.

r/degoogle r/linuxmasterrace r/linuxfornoobs r/Linux r/whatplantisthis r/eattheweeds

This seems way too unlikely to happen, but r/askhistorians. It's an exceptionally well moderated (if a bit overzealous) community that allows for both the average person to ask seemingly impossible, very specific questions as well as academics to express their knowledge and passion for those very same super specific topics they find fascinating; but have difficulty finding an audience to listen to them in their day to day lives.

I'm in a few different subs on Reddit, but the ones id love to see the most here would probably be:

r/stellaris r/crusaderkings r/kotor r/fireemblem and r/talesfromtechsupport

All of the Warhammer related subreddits!

Cats! Where are the cats?

• Wow, wownoob, and other game specific subreddits.
• Star Trek, Star Wars, and other sci-fi movie/show related subreddits
• NFL team and other sports related subreddits
• Fantasy Football

Actually a few, but to list some

~~r/PublicDomain~~

r/MirrorsEdgeAesthetics

~~r/MovieSuggestions~~

~~r/LostMedia~~

~~rMediumReadings~~

~~r/RockinTheClassics~~

~~r/REgames ~~

r/CarHacking could also be good

Maybe~~ r/iwatchedanoldmovie ~~ Some game specifics sub's like r/MetalGearSolid, r/MetalSlug and r/HalfLife, r/moddergearsolid is a particularly obscure one.

Most of the console modding subs like r/360hacks, r/WiiUHacks which is going dark, r/PS3Homebrew and so on.

From my own feed that's about it, with the exception of some piracy ones like rCemuPiracy r/LinuxCrackSupport and r/SteamDeckPirates, among others. And a couple in particular that push a bit closer to the work unsafe side, so those wouldn't be here.

I hope that the main Xenoblade subreddit can have a faction over here. There's lots of interesting comments there.

some of the more or less interesting ones i came across...

r/InternetIsBeautiful r/AlpineLinux r/CoOpGaming r/antiXLinux r/devuan r/gamedeals r/privacyhardware r/opensourcegames r/FreeGaming r/fossdroid r/linux4noobs r/commandline r/channelsofyoutube r/DeepIntoYouTube r/ChannelWatch r/EatCheapAndHealthy r/Foodforthought r/initFreedom r/irc r/KeepOurNetFree r/linux_devices r/suckless r/techsupport r/unknownvideos r/usenet r/youtubeclassics r/suggestmeabook r/thinkpad r/DistroTube r/odysee r/lbry r/peertube r/FOSSPhotography r/DepthHub r/TrueFilm r/socialscience r/AskSocialScience r/UpliftingNews r/LinuxPhones r/startpages r/terminal_porn r/nodrm r/Antifeatures r/FreeAudio r/listentothis (separated by genre)

Is there a way for following non-Lemmy communities of the Fediverse on Lemmy? I think it would really be useful and would fill the gap. Also, communities like guppe groups are quite active.

r/dmacademy

If anyone is looking, I made !amateur_radio (https://sh.itjust.works/c/amateur_radio).

/R/credibledefense I love the deep dives into defense procurement. Really hoping to find a community like that. I would make my own but I have no idea how to start and I don't have the background needed to be a good moderator (Or whatever the lemmy equivalent would be) in that kind of topic.

Oooer