Yeah that sub and a fair amount of other fairly niche ones have been sorely missed. I'm doubtful there will ever be a real replacement that gets the same level of engagement.

Smaller subs like zentangle, game and show specifics, as well as body and philosophy subs, specifically about aphantasia. A lot of just generally creative spaces. I've been able to mostly find suitable replacements for larger niche things like the Steam Controller and things within the last decade, but I was subbed to a lot of old things and lot of niche ones, small enough that it could potentially be transferred here but also small enough that it was already a desert, and many users did not understand Reddit since many were new to it. Navigating multiple accounts and instances and logins is not something I imagine them being good at.

Not to mention the existing content for those places, which has been my biggest loss because Google directs everything to reddit threads now. I made sure to set on libre reddit to give as little engagement as possible.

It's pretty devastating, not the loss of Reddit but the loss of the resource. Jeroba satisfies my Boost for Reddit scrolling fix, but I've been missing the engaging informational content. I miss doing the research and being the commenter, I often was especially in the vaporents community and other things I'm confident in. I still do it here when I can of course, but again it's been more about the subject matters and amount of content/users. Nothing to do with what's going on here, we just need more time and some of us are rightfully grieving the loss of an old friend who got hooked on greeds green corphetamine.

In time it will be better! :) Both the feeling of loss and the growth of the communities here. I'm hopeful that in the not too far future we will have niche communities that existed elsewhere, just far too many right now for me are either empty (byproduct of multiple instances I believe) or actually created and just not yet being used.