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 [email protected] to see people showing off their new communities.

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

Edit 2: android community moved to [email protected], updated link

    • n_emoo@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Azzu@lemm.eeEnglish
        14·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • DrQuint@lemmy.world
          English
          3·
          1 year 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.

          • Azzu@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Yeah idk, there is of course a nice sentiment to do what the community wants, but it really looked like the mods had no opinion at all.

            I really wonder what kind of mindset is behind there. I have multiple theories but nothing definite.

  • SpamCamel@lemm.eeEnglish
    19·
    1 year 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.

    • jennwiththesea@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think it’s an app issue, not dependent on which instance you’re on. I’m on world and clicked through to a couple shit just works links just fine. I’m using Liftoff on Android.

      • ugh@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        That’s because they’re on your home instance. They don’t work for me because those communities don’t exist on my home instance.

  • ugh@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    Could you remove the spaces for people who aren’t browsing from .world?

    • TeaHands@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 year 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 🤦‍♀️

    • t0fr@lemmy.ca
      5·
      1 year ago

      These are links with an “!” at the beginning. You should be able to copy and paste that into the search bar on your instance to search for it. The “!” will force your instance to search for it in other instances I’d no other users in your community have subscribed. If you click the link from your search results, you’ll access the community from your instance and then you’ll be able to subscribe in the sidebar.

      If for whatever reason the subscribe button is not working, and you click the button to create a post and just return to the previous page. It’s a known bug that depends on the version number of the instance.

    • r00ty@kbin.life
      4·
      1 year ago

      You’re on a kbin instance, and it is the main one so most of them are probably already there. If any of them is not, just click the search button at the top of the screen and enter the name you see above without the ! and without the space before the @. e.g. “[email protected]”, your instance will then look it up and subscribe you to it if found.

      It might take a while for threads to begin to appear if it wasn’t already there though.

    • LessQuit@feddit.nu
      47·
      1 year ago

      Works exactly like Reddit. Open the community of interest and press the subscribe button lol

  • freamon@feddit.nlEnglish
    101·
    1 year ago

    I can’t claim to understand this tech yet, but I feel like so many of these communities being on the same instance isn’t the way it’s supposed to be.

  • Azzu@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Btw I made this userscript (Lemmy post) for anyone who’s as annoyed of links not going to their home instance as I was! It rewrites all links on all websites to always point to your home instance.

    • jake_eric@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Pending is the same as subscribed, at least functionally. You’ll still get the posts in your subscribed feed. I think it’s just a visual thing.

    • simple@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      The ! is shorthand for linking to other communities, it provides an autocomplete link for referencing communities.

      The links work on the website and Liftoff app so I guess Connect still hasn’t been updated to work well with these links yet. These apps are all new so some bugs should be expected.

    • CadillacCalves@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      There appearsto be an extra space in the link before the " )". I’m also using Connect. Hopefully OP can address that.

    • jennwiththesea@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      If the links don’t work, you can just search for the communities through your app’s search feature, or on the website itself.

  • Bebo@reddthat.comEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I am using “connect for lemmy” app. Can someone please explain how to join communities? Just signed up and very confused.

        • Mintyy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I’ve used connect for a while now and while I’m pretty happy with it for browsing, I’m not in love with how difficult it is to join communities. Especially when you want to join a bunch of communities if your account is new.

          I found it way easier to join a bunch of communities in Chrome (which is made a lot easier on the actual lemmy website) and then coming back to connect to browse.

          It’s less of an issue if you just wanna join the odd community, but if you are looking to add a bunch I wouldn’t bother trying to do so through connect.

    • randomwither@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Connect is suuuuuper unstable for me at the moment, but I find it way easier to navigate than Jerboa. As someone said, you can use the three dots at the top right to subscribe.

      Instances can be super confusing, but as Lemmy grows, it’ll be simpler to figure things out 😊. Don’t worry, it’s a learning curve for all of us!

      • Bebo@reddthat.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Definitely a learning curve. At least sort of figured out finally how to join communities. What’s sort of confusing for me now is communities with same names but different instances (is that the right word?). Then I have check back to see whether I have joined it or is it a different one. This part is super confusing for me at present because I came across many such instances.

      • ugh@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Could that be due to your instance and not the app? Connect has been working well for me with only a few random errors that don’t affect much. Yesterday it wasn’t loading my lemmy.world account because the instance servers were struggling.