/r/liberalgunowners is missed. I could chat about guns and simple gunsmithing, see neat stuff I didn't know about, all without the toxic right-wing boolshit.
We had sane discussions about laws and responsible ownership, stuff like that. People were kind, no judgement, unless one was deliberately argumentative and/or acting a fool regarding safety. Even then, the mods would shut down the trolls (without the banhammer!) and the community would offer advice.
okbuddyphd, shittymobilegameads, pizzacrimes, garfieldwithoutgarfield, just all the really stupid obscure ones that give me a chuckle browsing through.
Hockey. Hockey is a huge part of my personality. I pretty much lived on r/hockey. I really miss having discussions about games, trades, players, etc. as well as sharing news.
There !hockey@lemmy.ca, but we need a lot more people there to get those discussions.
r/subredditdrama - hands down one of my favourite sources of reddit content. r/drama isn't my jam, way too much fascist apologia there.
r/printsf exists already but the reddit community is much more active than lemmy, I'm hoping some of the sf/fiction communities on lemmy can rival it at some point.
/r/prisonhooch. Fucking hilarious some of the stuff people came up with. One guy made beer out of non-alcoholic beer. Another guy brewed peas into pea-not grigio. There were several people who brewed Powerade into wine. I really miss that subreddit.
/bonehurtingjuice exists on here, but it's like 1 post a month instead of an endless stream of stupid bullshit humor that hits just right.
I also miss being on a platform that has the community for whatever game I might be playing at the moment, from popular ones to niche-as-fuck. Even CDDA's subreddit is still more active on reddit than Lemmy.
The Genshin fandom is much weaker here. I miss the endless *Mains communities with their useful guides, and the remarkable thirst of some of the groups :cough: /r/GenshinGays :cough:
I have epilepsy, and a few rare genetic disorders - there wasn't much of a healthy community for them on Reddit, especially my weirder shit, but I would love to see at least Epilepsy/Neurodegenerative/connective tissue disorder communities have a bigger presence. A few exist, but don't have posts, etc. My spouse has encouraged me to be the one to post, but I'm afraid of screaming into the void, just yet.
I wish the Framework community had moved over wholly. There's a lot more activity on Reddit than on Lemmy, and the comments are important, so the lemmit online bot can't replace it.
I miss the opera subreddit, crowbro, and beermoney. Those were all interesting and useful (I sure have made a lot of money from beermoney). However I'd really rather go without those than use Reddit.
I've wanted to open a string of video game subs on lemmy but i don't know what instance is best. It would have to be something that is ok with occasional porn and bad words (but not bigotry).
Tip of my tongue, Tip of my joystick and Sid Meier's Civilization. The first two subs have Lemmy communities (!tipofmytongue@lemmy.world and !tipofmyjoystick@lemmy.ml) but, sadly, they lack activity. r/civ is one of the only subreddits i'm still using, because it has lots of unique guides not found anywhere else.
Education subs like ApplyingToCollege, 6thform, uniUK, SAT etc.
I'm not a full Lemmy user because these constitute my primary usage of Reddit but still come around Lemmy sometimes
What’s This Rock and What’s This Fossil. I was actually getting really good at my mineral identifications, I would try guessing the mineral before opening the three to see if I got it right or not. The fossil one because sometimes you got to see some really cool stuff, other time hilariously, bad fossils made with mosasaur teeth. And the occasional flint arrow head or hand axe but we’re not in the scope of the subreddit but still cool anyway.
I'm approaching extraction day, getting a little less than half my teeth pulled. I was lurking on r/dentures for quite a while before I left. It would be nice if that community were around here.
r/zombiesurvivaltactics was a nice place for serious conversation about imaginary scenarios.
r/SamHarris was a great place for rational and intellectual discussion overall. People on that sub were significantly more measured and considerate with other people even about stuff they disagreed with than people on reddit in general.
Roborock or robovac, would be nice to keep up to date on new products and share troubleshooting info with other robovac owners / shoppers, but building that community here isn't a task I'm up to.
Would have to say the r/imaginaryelections and r/imaginarymaps communities for alternate history. If anyone knows any lemmy/Mastodon communities for that it'd be appreciated!
Less one that I'm missing, more one that I'd like to see more lively and recognised by other communities outside of Lemmy:
Factorio
As well as a few other games.
It's a fairly technically minded game, which'd make it a great fit over here. In fact, there is a Factorio Lemmy community, it's just nowhere near as lively as any Factorio subreddit.
This is kinda obscure in the grand scheme of things, and will realistically not going to happen, but I'd love if the /r/EthosLab community moved here :P
And of course, a bigger portuguese presence (I run a portuguese instance hehe).
I mean, we have c/asklemmy but it's not the same. The activity isn't that much and the questions are also not the sane type of qu3stions as askreddit. They're mostly about Lemmy itself rather than asking people's life stories and such. And even if they do ask such question, the comments are mostly short.