What communities should I recommend to a friend joining Lemmy? (lemdro.id)

submitted 3 months ago by claim_arguably@lemdro.id to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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The federated lemmy field is all about politics and some memes. I convinced a friend with fediverse idea and advised him to start with lemmy and mastodon accounts, he has never used Reddit and aren't familiar with subs that Reddit users know.

Recommend him some cool communities that's not politics.

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[-] FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 13 points 3 months ago

!eternalplaylist@crazypeople.online - Music
!cool_rocks@lemmy.today - Cool Rocks

[-] claim_arguably@lemdro.id 3 points 3 months ago

Cool communities but niche. He's isn't into any of them.

[-] FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 9 points 3 months ago

TIL music is niche.

[-] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago

Why not suggest the communities you follow? I assume your friend has similar interests as you.

[-] kaulquappus@feddit.org 9 points 3 months ago

I bet OP invented this mysterious friend just to get some good recommendations!

[-] Sergio@piefed.social 9 points 3 months ago

Whenever I recommend lemmy to friends, I point them to my feeds of non-politics, non-tech communities:

[-] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago

Nice feeds! I have added them to the Explore menu for everyone, now.

[-] Sergio@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago

Wow, thanks!

[-] claim_arguably@lemdro.id 2 points 3 months ago

Is there anything similar to this in Lemmy or one of its clients?

[-] Sergio@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

Hmmm I dunno but here are a bunch of links on lemmy to most of those communities:

https://lemmy.world/post/34515710/18839603

[-] JayGray91@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

You can subscribe, follow and interact with other communities not on lemmy.world and other instances without making an account for each. I recommend piefed.social because their on boarding is awesome to get you started. You then can search for the communities suggested to easily follow them in piefed's view

[-] humble_boatsman@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

!artshare@lemmy.world !liminalspace@lemmy.world !superbowl@lemmy.world

[-] Canconda@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

historymemes@lemmy.world

[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Start with All and begin subscribing and blocking as needed.

[-] felsiq@piefed.zip 3 points 3 months ago

Fair warning if your instance isn’t defederated from lemmy.nsfw there will be a LOT of porn

[-] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

You can also just block instances, I've got most of the porn ones and tankie ones blocked

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago

Start with All and begin subscribing and blocking as needed.

I've weirdly found that it's even harder to curate ALL on the FV than it is on Reddit. The process of blocking takes a couple more clicks, and you're only blocking a single community, not the group associated with that subject.

Also, there's an unbelievable amount of niche communities that for some reason seems even more gargantuan than at the other place. I must have hundreds blocked by now, and my ALL feed is still as weird and unpredictable as ever.

[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I only block what will never interest me or is somehow flooding All. After about a week I found myself spending most of my time in my subscribed communities.

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago

Unfortunately that doesn't work at all for me, perhaps due to coming from different software / instance. Ah, the complications of using the FV...

Anyway yeah, subscriptions have been the way to go for me, rarely hitting ALL. Helpfully, when you sign up here, you can fill out a series of checkboxes, and PieFed.Social will auto-subscribe you to a bunch of relevant communities.

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

!tenforward@lemmy.world
!connectasong@lemmy.world
!askouija@lemmy.world

[-] TehBamski@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

For sure, start with !bestoflemmy@lemmy.world and !lemmy411@lemmy.ca

And here are some of my favorite communities I would recommend.

!trippinthroughtime@lemmy.ca

!rpgmemes@ttrpg.network

!mealtimevideos@lemmy.cafe

!moviesuggestions@lemmy.world

!wikipedia@lemmy.world

!artporn@piefed.social

!general@lemmy.world (General Discussion)

[-] FoolsQuartz@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

microblog memes and the greentext/4chan ones (the general attitude of 4channers is not replicated by the people there, lol)

[-] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Doesn't matter what community they sign up for, they are all the same comments. Trump sucks and do you use Arch Linux?

[-] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The NSFW communities have very few serious discussions, probably because it's harder to type with your left hand only, lol. And I'm not there either but probably some gaming communities?

[-] wabasso@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Are there any free nsfw communities? I don’t object to them being paid—totally reasonable given the bandwidth required. Just wondering what options I have for my poor wallet.

[-] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Titties and dicks appear (blurred but still) on my feed all the time and I haven't paid anything in Lemmy. 🤷

[-] wabasso@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Blurred on feed but then available if you click through to the post?

[-] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Ofc, ofc. 👍

this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2026

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