What is a niche interest or hobby you'd personally like to see represented more on Lemmy

Linux and Star Trek memes. I just don't see them enough.

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.

vinyl records. I miss r/vinyldeals, r/vinyl, and r/vinyljerk.

Not exactly niche but I'd like to see some active gardening and diy communities. The existing ones aren't very active.

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.

I have a few!

• Vaporwave minidiscs
• Nail polish & nail art
• Skincare
• Fitness over 40
• Greyhounds

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.

Edit: No clue why I can only get 1 of the 2 links to work correctly, but FosterAnimals is on kbin.social, and FosterKittens is on lemmy.world.

Hobby machining, automotive, scca.

Maybe I need to think about hosting.....

Anything not tech/Linux related. It's 90% of my feed.

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.

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.

Men's rights, but not like the piss pitt that the Reddit one has, but one that focuses on real men's issues, like how rampant prison rape is in male prisons, parental alienation, forced military service and such.

And before anyone says that "It is men who mostly commit prison rape", well duh, that is obvious, but prison should be a rehabilitation tool, not a punitive one, and especially not a for-profit business like it currently is.

And add the fact that prisoners should be under the care of the government, and the fact that so much abuse, sexual and otherwise is ignored and not prevented is nothing but appalling.

Where's the experimental music community at?

More artsy stuff and more comics, I've only seen Loading Artist over here - if he's the real one.

JRPGs. I live them, but all communities over here are mostly dead - only posting the occasional trailer.

Those were the only subreddits I actually used to frequent, now that I think about it.

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

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 ones are completely dead...

I wish there was somewhere to talk about Counter-Strike, particularly the e-sports scene.

more linguistics

more geography

Not that I was into it that much, but I did love seeing pics of fungus on reddit once I found that place.

(Original) drawings, paints, sketches made by the OP. Talk about paint, inks, papers, ...work in progress stuff, problems & solutions.

Random educational posts, like stuff that is actually useful. Like physics lessons.

Programming languages. (Not programming in general, but specifically language design.)

Lockpicking (along with the ranking system) would be great, plus it was the nicest, most friendly sub I've ever been in

I wish we had a super active watch exchange like reddit.

Would love to see more crochet content, there is alot of posts in the knitting community here, but the crocheting ones feel dead.

Headphones and audiophile stuff, especially IEMs.

shrimptank, aquariums, various weird animal subs :(

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.

Romhacking!

More sports like NFL, college basketball, baseball, etc. There are communities for these, but they're not very active.

Not exactly a hobby. But lost media/lost wave.

Game dev

Frogs.

I guess it could qualify as a hobby, but USB C hardware. There was a ton of good info, and news on new USB C devices, and most importantly USB devices not to buy on the subreddit.

I need morrowind and portal communities.

Its a super unpopular pitch but the communities on Reddit for steroids and PEDs were some of the absolute best sources of information on them.

I dont do steroids, but I do use a few compounds that arent illegal but are considered performance enhancing drugs by world sporting bodies and trying to find anyone with practical experience with them outside of Reddit is like pulling teeth.

British panel shows.

Logic puzzles, esp. variety Sudoku.

A lot of the more nish writing sub's like magic building or fantasy writers.

Scale radio control cars/planes/drones

Scale "dollhouse" builds

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@lemmy.world 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)

Blender artists

Pegging

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.

Swordsmanship.

Whether it's HEMA or otherwise (as long as it's not fencing)

The weather. Be it local weather discussion pages, country etc. especially for big events.

Classic cars - there is a community https://lemmy.world/c/oldcars@kbin.social but it is basically dead

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.

Learning Scottish Gaidhlig

Knife making

Leather working

Old Muscle car repair, building, etc.

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.

Roller skating.

r/jailbreak, r/sideloaded, and r/magisk. I moded the first two but there is just not enough activity.

Japanese trains

Cryptography

I'd love to see niche communities.

I miss the cursed minecraft communities from reddit(r/phoenixsc and r/minecrafthmmm)

scale models.

How about a community for paracord stuff?

Headphones

Pinball

For me it is OnePiece manga that I would like to see more active here. Currently the only option is reddit.

Disc Golf

Chain mail as both armour and a craft.

Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout Modding. Espresso too.

I'd like to see an active Pathfinder 2e community, and I also miss the /r/LocalLLaMA community (running LLMs locally).

Not niche at all but women's fashion and beauty

I really miss the r/kennyvsspenny sub back on Reddit. It's was a niche TV show from the 2000's that has a cult following to this day.

Miss that /r/silverbugs family

Skydiving

While age and injury has retired me from the sport, I like to keep up with what is going on in the community. You don't do 4k plus jumps and not be addicted to it for life.

r/skydiving just became the hang out for skygods and their ilk, long before Reddit took its permanent nose dive.

I really miss the worldbuilding subreddit. There was always cool stuff to see and read because the community was big. The equivalent !worldbuilding@lemmy.world is much less active, and I seem to be the most frequent poster. I think conlanging is also underrepresented, but that's even more niche.

I also wish the threadiverse had a large and diverse-enough userbase to support the sort of hyper-specific subs that show pictures of a specific animal (or plant) doing a specific thing (looking at you, /r/treessuckingatthings). The community was even big enough to spawn subs based purely on inside jokes from other subs. I'm pretty sure the above mentioned /r/treessuckingatthings inspired /r/treessuckingonthings, and while I can't confirm, /r/talesfromcavesupport was probably from a joke in /r/talesfromtechsupport.

There were even multiple subs for the same content that would have slightly different community culture, and both subs would be reasonably active. /r/dogs didn't allow pictures, so you had /r/picturesofdogs, not to mention active subs for every breed of dog, and often every coat pattern of said breed. Yellow, black, and chocolate labs all had their own active subs, and that's on top of the regular labrador sub.

As it is, Lemmy is too small, and the userbase is either tankies or almost but not quite tankies, repelling people who aren't tankies.

I do miss the atheist vs theists debates reddit had. It was kinda interesting hearing the same arguments over and over but having to study them in new ways.

Ok this one is arguing God exists because humans can think. Now I have to spend a few hours learning about animal intelligence. Ok this one is bringing up a first cause argument. Now I have to read the really long ebook NASA put out about the Big Bang.

It was fun challenging myself and I ended up learning.

Sounding.

Fondling my balls, I feel like not enough people are willing to give it a try. It’s free, it feels good, and it’ll relieve stress, I don’t know why I’m in jail for offering a gift like this to the world.