I miss the regional/local subs. While there’s technically a few for my region spread across different instances, none of them have much, if any, activity.

Of the more “niche” communities, the one I miss the most is r/fosteranimals. I started one here, and have posted a few times, but given the already limited audience, plus my inexperience at growing/moderating a community, and my tendency to be mostly a lurker, I have not managed any engagement in the community beyond up/down votes.

japanfinance, japanlife, etc. It’s not about the communities themselves, it’s about the huge amount of knowledge and experience that rests in the people engaging with them

It’s deffo r/Flairwars and r/Num for me, despite not having been in the latter in the time I was on that site.
Both have their own unique inside jokes, battling systems, lore, fanworks, and most of all, a slow yet steadily thriving community that’s accepting of everyone. I often wonder how my first aforementioned community would thrive in this vast federated space, especially with all the new possibilities out here… Maybe new lore expansions, and a reinvigoration on the way?

There are some small niche communities that I miss interacting with because the people were pretty cool. Mostly warhammer and some smaller game communities.

The hololive and vtuber communities weren’t able to make the switch. They’re here but they’re not active enough to actually keep up with.

Plus the talents related don’t know fediverse exists and barely even knew reddit existed, so they generally only post on reddit if anywhere (they mostly are only aware of twitter)

Art/design related communities. I made a few here but I was the only one posting. Also miss the model making/diorama/mini painting subs. And some other little niche hobby communities.

Oh also local city communities are basically nonexistent here and it will prob take years for that to become viable here.

/r/nosleep

I can’t get enough of the, often shoddy, short form horror.

Conlangs, mostly

r/hypixel
r/hypixelskyblock

I miss the VRChat sub myself. Not much of it here. There’s more on the microblog side of the magazine but very few threads. Maybe I’ll start posting patch notes that they put into discord there. A Resonite community would be nice too but I don’t think that platform has enough users currently to make a thriving sub here yet.

You know what I think I’m just going to request ownership over it and see if I can do anything with it.

r/hotas
r/trackball

There are some small, niche reddit communities I miss. Unfortunately since this part of the fediverse is small, the niche communities are even smaller. Either moderated by one person and no posts, or it just doesn’t exist.

A populated am I the asshole. That one really needs a critical mass of all sorts of people to be fun. When my GF and I go out to eat we generally pull the top posts of the week and talk em over while we eat. It’s a great conversation starter and a wonderful way to find out little stories that don’t come up in everyday conversation.

Lately I’ve been having to go back to Reddit to look at the gloryhammer and Dyson sphere program subs. The 2nd one has been more used after the recent update, just wish I could load any mods

DigitalMinimalism
It was quiet, but people would sometimes discuss various way for preventing screens etc from being too much a part of their daily lives.