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As Lemmy starts maturing, there starts being so many communities out there that it's pretty hard to keep track. I've been browsing for about a month now, here's a list of popular communities I've subscribed to that others would find interesting!

Not many of these were noticeable while browsing communities so you may have missed some of these. I've roughly ranked these based on which I'd spend the most time on in each category.

Also note that I would add Kbin communities as well, but federation between Lemmy and Kbin is still not working well, so right now this post is for Lemmy communities only!

General Discussion

Humor & Memes

Technology

Pictures & Videos

Movies & TV

Video Games

And that's it. Whew. Obviously I might have missed some, but these are the most interesting communities for me.

Interested in finding more communities? Check out !newcommunities@lemmy.world to see people showing off their new communities.

Edit: Removed spaces from links, added xbox to games section

Edit 2: android community moved to android@lemdro.id, updated link

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[โ€“] Azzu@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

List of unpopular communities you should visit:

I'm so alone ๐Ÿ˜ญ

[โ€“] n_emoo@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sadly the r/dota2 community doesnt seem to have migrated that much. Which is a shame because everyone from pro players to valve use it as an official means to communicate.

[โ€“] Azzu@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

From the way the mods of that subreddit behaved, it was pretty clear that they didn't care at all about the protests. They made a poll and ignored the like 60% that wanted the protest to continue.

[โ€“] DrQuint@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

People posted saying they'd support the protest, so the mods locked down. Then they made a poll and the comments were almost exclusively against while the votes were split, so calls of manipulation and astroturfing were rampant because people couldn't actually believe there were people in favor of the protest.

I would agree that they didn't care either way, and tried going with the flow. The mods basically acted, ah... What's the word... Something like "pussy-whipped" but with Reddit users as the instigator? The "comments" made demands and they acquiesced every time then acted confused that there was no consistency with those comments and lots of anger then aimed at them. Which honestly, probably matches up with what they do day-to-day. I appreciate the esports match discussion and summary threads, but overall, the actual acts of moderation is extremely hands off and lenient towards things like xenophobia and whatnot. I wonder what actually happens in that subreddit's mod queue and if half those people are even around. Outside of 3 people, their presence has taken a nosedive since the days ReaverXai was around.

It was not the time to be so hands-off. It was not the time to tell people "oh just go on the pepe-emoji infested discord that not even us ourselves have used in 7 years, it'll be fine". It was the time to take a stance one way or another, the time to investigate alternatives and list them on the frontpage. The time to restrict the sub and filter comments from newer acoounts, or the time to stay open and declare you don't think the cause will work. Something. Anything.

[โ€“] WhiteHotaru@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] Venutianxspring@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Come check out !spaceporn@lemmy.fmhy.ml for all of your awe-inspiring space photos.

[โ€“] Mat66@eslemmy.es 2 points 2 years ago

There is one in Spanish https://eslemmy.es/

[โ€“] Bonzo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Anything for e-bikes or e-bike building?

!micromobility@lemmy.world

Let me know if you find something!

[โ€“] abnormal_258@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

thx for the list

[โ€“] soupspoon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Have you successfully subscribed to any lemmy.ml communities or moviesandtv@lemmy.film? Mine still show as pending after a couple of weeks

[โ€“] Hanabie@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] samae@lemmy.menf.in 1 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] kite@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

My addition to this would be !lemmyapps@lemmy.world, for a good list of apps you can try out. Note that while it says apps, this also covers browser extensions and PC web apps.

...also note I have never linked before, so I have no idea how that is going to turn out.

[โ€“] kyrbi@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can anyone help me how to subscribe to these communities? Thank you

[โ€“] TeaHands@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If you're logged in on the website, those links should "just work" and the subscribe button is in the sidebar. Mobile website also works really well although you have to expand the sidebar to see the button.

If you're using one of the many different mobile apps you'll have to let us know which one because they all seem to work completely differently at the moment!

Edit: Just realised you're on Kbin and it looks like Kbin is stripping the link formatting out of the post for some weird reason, that's why you can't click them ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ

[โ€“] SpamCamel@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

btw the spaces in the links provided by OP effectively break the links if you're not based on the community's home server. Would be really great to get this updated.

[โ€“] avds@social.fossware.space 1 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] Bassiette@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

PS5 community is dead any alternatives??

[โ€“] TwoFace211@feddit.ch 0 points 2 years ago

Thank you. Need more of this. I've been searching for something like this for a while.

[โ€“] ravenousdragster@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What about drug communities. I miss looking at a bunch of posts made by drug users

[โ€“] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Pretty sure there's a trees community here somewhere.

Edit - found it - https://lemmy.world/c/trees

[โ€“] Dewa@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Why the duplicate communities? My understanding was it shouldn't matter where I subscribe to "games" the posts should be the same.

[โ€“] Tilted@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I find it helps to think the name of a community includes the originating server name

[โ€“] yote_zip@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago

The posts are different on each server. They are effectively separate communities with separate names, counting the server as part of its name.

[โ€“] WololoWarrior@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Omg, my instance got featured in this! I'm so happy ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] will@possumpat.io 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which one is that? ๐Ÿ˜Š

[โ€“] WololoWarrior@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Tripping through time in lemmy.ca

[โ€“] patchw3rk@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would add the following:

!newcommunities @lemmy.world
!truegaming @kbin.social
!fediverse @kbin.social
!BestOf @kbin.social
!askkbin @kbin.social
!RedditMigration @kbin.social

[โ€“] Kinolee@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I still don't understand how to subscribe to groups that aren't on my instance. I sometimes was able to get it to work on my PC but it's impossible on mobile. This platform needs a lot of work.

[โ€“] GeekFTW@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

So I'm on Kbin.social right now. Let's say I wanna view our gaming community. like how Reddit has:

Reddit.com/r/Subredditname

I would go to:

kbin.social/m/magazinename

You on lemmy.world would go to:

lemmy.world/c/communityname

Super simple so far I hope lol. Same url format, just a C instead of an R on lemmy, and M instead of an R on kbin.

Let's say I on kbin wanna see your gaming community. If I did kbin.social/m/gaming, I would get mine. The url though can act like how an email address does, by adding a domain to the end of it. So if I did kbin.social/m/gaming@lemmy.world, I'll see your gaming community. Same if you do lemmy.world/c/gaming you see yours, but lemmy.world/c/gaming@kbin.social you should see ours.

If I got those URL's right that is lol

Both kbin and lemmy instances do also have other ways to get to other instances to sub, but the instructions I provided are based just on the url so it should work for anyone while ya get used to the UI and new platform and whatnot.