cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2216085

Search Lemmyverse is good for finding communities.

I posted this on the other site but I thought I’d copy over here too, lots of good communities around to subscribe to if you want a more casual/fun frontpage that isn’t just tech news, elon musk, or politics.

note: all of these communities have posts. If they appear empty, it simply means nobody on the instance you use has visited them before (or you might have blocked them and forgot, I’ve done it before, lol)!

Conversation communities

These are places that are ‘chatty’, good if you want a lot of comments.

“ask” based
Casual chat / Misc

Hobbies, Creative, & Passions

Misc
Artwork
Cooking, food, drinks

Generally mostly nice pics of food:

Gardening / Plants
Keyboard enthusiasts
Knitting, Stitching, Crocheting, etc
Reading & Writing
Sport

Honestly there are so many sport communities around - if you search Lemmyverse for popular sports, you will almost certainly find more.

Nice/Interesting/Funny pictures

Animals

Literally just pictures of cute animals.

Comics
Flags
Maps
Memes

Meme communities in general can overload your feed, so keep that in mind.

Photography

Games

Board Games / Table top games

The ttrpg.network instance has a lot of communities based around table top gaming & RPGs.

note: the battlemaps communities seem to mostly cross-post between eachother at the moment.

Video Games

Knowledge (e.g history, science)

Space

TV (television), movies, film

Music

Lots of music communities on Lemmy. Search Lemmyverse for genres of interest for more, this definitely isn’t exhaustive.

Note that music communities generally have low comment counts, from my experience.

There’s also:

  • @[email protected]English
    11•1 year ago

    Thank you, added at least 15 communities from this list. :)

    And nice to see at least some communities that aren’t from Lemmy.world or Lemmy.ml. I think it’s really important for the health of the fediverse to have many active communities across many different instances.

    • trainsaresexyEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Since week one I’ve been planning to join another smaller instance and never get around to it.

      We should have a ‘discover instance’ day or something where people are encouraged to explore other areas of the fediverse, because if I’m anything to go off of it doesn’t happen naturally.