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:

  • @CMahaffOPEnglish
    22•1 year ago

    I would kindly redirect any kind comments you have, or suggests for items to add, to @[email protected], the original creator of the list.

    I am but a humble cross-poster.

  • @[email protected]English
    15•1 year ago

    OP you deserve so much more than an upvote for this compilation - this is truly impressive. I had no idea I was missing out on so many yarncraft communities! I will rectify this ASAP thanks to you.

  • @[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.

  • @FateboundEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    Thank god dude I was about to delete this app from the amount of politics and agenda pushing

    • Madbrad200English
      3•1 year ago

      Added this to the original list

  • Asimov's RobotEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    [email protected] for all those who appreciate the art of street and documentary photography. It is a difficult genre that requires more than a single glance to appreciate. I try to post regularly on there.

    • Madbrad200English
      1•1 year ago

      Added it to the original list :)

  • @sk1nnyjeansEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    I wish I could find any (decently active) for people who make music.

    /r/audioengineering and /r/WeAreTheMusicMakers were two big music production communities over on Reddit, and I occasionally search to see if there has been an influx of users on the kinda dead music-making communities here. So far no luck!

  • @NZV65572English
    2•1 year ago

    List after list of communities and then…

    “Meme communities can overload your feed, so keep that in mind”

    …

    • Madbrad200English
      6•1 year ago

      ?

      It’s less of an issue than it used to be but it’s likely still true if you aren’t subscribed to many communities; the large meme sublemmies (e.g [email protected]) get a disproportional amount of posts, & posts that are highly upvoted, which leads to them dominating feeds. It doesn’t help that Lemmy’s “hot” and “Active” feeds just aren’t that good at diversifying content.

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

    Really useful have this here, because:

    • it’s really easy to join.
    • more than Reddit post that has wrong links to instances.

    I’ve arrived this week to Lemmy, right now on Voyager app (Android), two things that are harder than Reddit:

    • confusing/harder to join communities (this post helps).
    • you need a browser and copy paste to add communities to your instance. Maybe apps can help to do it frictionless.
    • multireddits (I missed this).