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Mostly the slightly more niche entertainment based communities I think. Like how I was doing it on Reddit towards the end there was if I watched a movie that I loved or was particularly enjoying a series, I would search it up on Reddit and join. And a lot of them were really cool or fun spaces to hang around in. So like for example, I never really spent too much time in generic TV subs but my hangout spots were the specific subs for iZombie, Doom Patrol, Harley Quinn, Xena (I honestly especially miss the Xena subreddit). And that probably would've changed and evolved over the years.

Also loved doing stuff like having a marathon watch of all the Hellraiser movies, then making a review post in the subreddit. I did that for a couple of movie series: Hellraiser, the Crow, Starship Troopers. And a lot of those communities were pretty fun to keep around and lurk in as well.

Then also games. Like I'm playing Terraria, so I'd also look for the Terraria subreddit and subscribe.

And apart from that. Skincare and hair care style communities. 'Fashion' communities for alt / goth styles or even just for people to show off the cool shit they thrifted.

Honestly I think my real answer is that it just needs more niche stuff in general. Like, even as far as self care style subs go, I wasn't limited to two big ones, there was even a subreddit for people with my specific eye shape (and tips pertaining to that) lol.

I realise that will all only come with time and a few more users though. And I've realised that we don't even need that many more users. Already here on Lemmy, there's a handful of users that partly carry this place on their backs by regularly providing content for us riff raff to interact with. We just need a few more of those users to provide all the lurkers and doom scrollers things to interact with.