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List of popular communities you should visit! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected] NOTE: This one is a bot community forwarding tech news. Not for discussion, but it's useful to browse.

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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

!Ich_[email protected] is missing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

List of unpopular communities you should visit:

[email protected]

I'm so alone 😭

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Don't miss out on:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Come check out [email protected] for all of your awe-inspiring space photos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Anything for e-bikes or e-bike building?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Let me know if you find something!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you successfully subscribed to any lemmy.ml communities or [email protected]? Mine still show as pending after a couple of weeks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Quick plug for [email protected]

Pretty established at this point and getting more posts every day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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 🤦‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You forgot
!japanese_metal :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[email protected] too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah -- overrun with tankies.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My addition to this would be [email protected], 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nice!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

thx for the list

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

PS5 community is dead any alternatives??

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks!

Can anyone let me know if there is a way to book mark a post? Am using the connect app. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

To save a post, you need to tap the bookmark icon next to the downvote arrow. Comments can also be saved by swiping them to the left until you see the bookmark icon.

To view your saved posts, open the navigation drawer (hamburger menu) on Connect and tap on Saved, which is just below Profile.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[+] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which is stupid imho. I don't want to sub to 10 different /c/movies or even 2 different /c/nba. Mark my words you're going to see a consolidation here if this takes off and you're going to lose the federation appeal that people want (I couldn't care less just want a Reddit alternative). Already I've unsubbed from communities to simply sub to the biggest one.

Let's also ignore there's an open issue from 2 years ago because no one apparently thought or cared of the scenario that some of us actually like a unified identity online and yet you can't port your account across the fediverse.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1985

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it is so important for you to be so much outraged, I guess it is time for you to either learn to code and open a PR, or to pay someone to do it for you!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know how to code don't have the time. It's potential I may look into it. Doesn't change the fact that it's two glaring issues that weren't thought through and there's many more that have been brought up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get that you're angry the new thing doesn't work exactly the same as the thing you were used to. But take a deep breath, and remember they are in fact different things with their own pros and cons. Everything's changing at a rapid rate. Some features you want will make it in, some features you want probably won't, but there are ways to respectfully make and contribute to feature requests and have some small part in guiding the project in the direction you'd like to see.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Pretty sure there's a trees community here somewhere.

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Anyone?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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/[email protected], I'll see your gaming community. Same if you do lemmy.world/c/gaming you see yours, but lemmy.world/c/[email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Omg, my instance got featured in this! I'm so happy 😁

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which one is that? 😊

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Tripping through time in lemmy.ca

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fixing the links for us lemmy users

[email protected]
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[email protected]
[email protected]

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