I think we need less while traffic is low. Like a hobbies group instead of a lot of smart communities that are more specific.

Lemmy can never have enough dead communities! Also we should have clones on each instance for good measure.

I would kill for a lemmy alternative to /r/AskHistorians, but it requires a very dedicated moderation team, and I don’t know that the user base here is large enough to support it.

A r/LetGirlsHaveFun and an r/LetBoysBeManipulated 🥺

Worldbuilding. There are communities for it but they’re not very active.

Not sure these are communities that I would like to see on Lemmy necessarily, but they are stuff that I have no space to discuss here:

• political organization design
• fermentation
• fine dining and cooking
• videogames design theory and videogames critique

Reddit had great HVAC and Refrigeration subs that I miss. The HVAC com here is basically completely inactive. Honestly there are so few tradies on lemmy, it would be nice to just see all the tradie coms consolidated into one so there is some activity.

A community for homeless people.

One can’t have enough on diy and repair/restoration

Gore

I’d also like to see more hobby based ones. Agree on the diy/gardening/recycling and non waste.

I hate Reddit but they were always good for outsider tech stuff like the specific game (e.g sims) community or stremio etc when you just need an answer or a bit of support fixing or configuring something.

almost collected the whole set of my diagnoses with autism and bipolar communties… now just need a borderline personality disorder one

There’s some specific ones I miss from Reddit. Stuff for sites like Letterboxd, Serializd, and Backloggd. One for cartoons would be nice (I searched, but the only thing I found here was one for comics). Not sure if there’s a community here that would be good to ask for recommendations in for like TV shows and videogames.

More skincare

Specific story related ones. Eg His Dark Materials, Avatar The Last Airbender, Cosmere