What is your favorite niche internet community? Preferably one with a fun subreddit?
r/BestOfRedditorUpdates — they aggregate all update posts for stories people have posted to Reddit/when they’ve asked for advice Makes for some interesting light reading given you’re watching peoples lives & problems play out over text
mechanical keebs; not super niche (i think) but still r/mechanicalkeyboards, r/ErgoMechKeyboards
I love Vandelay House of Horology. Watch/horology memes but only from Seinfeld. I love a good mix of niches. https://instagram.com/vandelayhouseofhorology?igshid=YWJhMjlhZTc=
that would be Tea Instagram by a mile https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/gongfucha
R/fuckcars is funny. They are very committed to the bit
Ultralight backpacking and it’s not even close. I’ve never even been backpacking but I’m obsessed with r/ultralight
postrationalist / ingroup twitter precisely because of the illegibility
Again not particularly niche but r/Cocktails is fun. I took it up as a pandemic hobby.
1) paging @b 2) I love the more-specialized-content -> bigger-and-more-devoted-audience feedback loop 3) I love the degree of price elasticity you see in gear-intensive niche communities like audiophile or trials motorcycles 4) curious why 100s of hours of good bourbon content but hours of cigar content rounds to 0
Shitty Robots is hilarious and will only get better https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyrobots/
A few of my favourites: - r/MotionDesign - r/ArchitecturalRevival - r/battlestations - r/drone_photography - r/ConceptCars
Any of the specific dnd show fan communities (critical role, adventure zone, etc) Basically proto versions of the cc0, fan co-creation theses
The backcountry enthusiast stuff is epic All about sharing info and using that as beta and inspiration to go get outside
I’m really into playing risk: https://www.reddit.com/r/Risk/ I’d also like to say anime, but that’s not niche anymore?
waifudiffusion. fine tune SD to generate anime, very smart weebs.