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A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics) (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
20 comments fedilink
 
 

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

Searching Lemmyverse is good for finding communities. [email protected] is also a nice tool for finding new places.

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)! I will try to keep this thread updated over time.

Note: if you wish to auto-subscribe to all of the communities below, I have a post in the comments that describes how to do so.

My rough criterion was:

  • Of interest to me or a wide audience
  • Has a decent amount of activity
  • Casual / fun / interesting / cool / funny / chatty communities.
  • 0 negativity/negative vibes, news, politics, overload of tech or niche tech news/info, etc.

Directory

  • Conversation Communities - for chatty places
    • "ask" based
    • Casual chat / Misc
  • Hobbies, Creative, Passions
    • Misc
    • Artwork
    • Cooking, food, drinks
    • Gardening / Plants
    • Keyboard enthusiasts
    • Knitting, stitching, crocheting, etc
    • Reading and writing
  • Nice/Interesting/Funny pictures
    • Animals
    • Comics
    • Flags
    • Maps
    • Memes
    • Misc
    • Photography
    • Wallpapers
  • Games
    • Board games / Table top games
    • Chess
    • Crosswords / Daily games
    • Video games
  • Knowledge (e.g history, science, etc)
  • Space
  • TV (television, movies, film)
  • Music

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

(see also the list under the Wallpapers header)

Cooking, food, drinks

Generally mostly nice pics of food:

Gardening / Plants
Keyboard enthusiasts
Knitting, Stitching, Crocheting, etc
Reading and 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.

Misc
Photography
Wallpapers

Games

Board Games / Table top games

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

Chess
Crosswords / Daily games
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:

Previous

These communities have been removed from the list for not maintaining activity.

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Removing images from new users in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Just posting to nag you about this: can [email protected] be added as an exception to the automod?

Better Mastodon/Lemmy Integration? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (5 children)

It's partly an issue of keys. Every fediverse actor has a private key and a public key. When my instance sends this to [email protected], it's signed by my private key, and lemmy.world uses my public key to verify it. When [email protected] sends this comment out, it uses it's own private key to sign it. It can't just re-transmit my comment, because it doesn't have my private key. All it can do is Announce that I've made the comment (and sign the Announce).

Mastodon treats Announces as Boosts, so every post/comment is interpreted as a thing that [email protected] has boosted, so you get all these un-connected posts appearing. I think it's mostly up to Mastodon to remedy.

It works better if a Mastodon actor posts into a Lemmy community, then you get the mix like you imagine. e.g.: https://mastodon.world/@Flash/112095241193510662 (this particular post was crowbarred into Lemmy via [email protected], but it would be the same if the author had done it.)

Can I follow mastodon accounts in Lemmy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I wish you could, but for all intents and purposes Lemmy and Mastodon aren't part of the same fediverse. Kbin/Mbin let you follow accounts, and I think [email protected] automatically turns toots from some accounts (including Takei's) into Lemmy posts.

Can I follow mastodon accounts in Lemmy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

From Lemmy you can see the accounts, but usually not their content (see note below). @[email protected]
@[email protected]

Interaction between Lemmy and Mastodon doesn't work well because the two services structure their content differently. Lemmy is community based and Mastodon is user based. Lemmy doesn't have a mechanism to follow an individual user, and Mastodon doesn't have an analog to communities (afaik).

(Note: In the case of these two accounts, some of their toots are visible because they have been pulled into the [email protected] community as part of an experiment to bridge Lemmy and Mastodon.)

The chemistry behind new and old book smells in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

(sorry to intrude). This has had a few cross-posts on Lemmy. The link that goes to [email protected] is attributed to the author of the image, so you can reply to them via that community if you wish.

The chemistry behind new and old book smells in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

(sorry to intrude). This has had a few cross-posts on Lemmy. The link that goes to [email protected] is attributed to the author of the image, so you can reply to them via that community if you wish.

The chemistry behind new and old book smells in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

(sorry to intrude). This has had a few cross-posts on Lemmy - this one technically wasn't, but it seems Lemmy has picked up on it. If you want some ALT text, and to reply to author of this image, the link that goes to [email protected] provides that.

[RESOLVED] lemmy.ca sends every activity out 3 times? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I've turned logging back on, so I'll let you know once someone from lemmy.ca interacts with [email protected]

Removing images from new users in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Hello. My community [email protected] is getting caught by this. It posts stuff from Mastodon users, so they won't have any karma. I've been trying to figure out why posts to programming.dev have been hit or miss, and the answer of course is that the missing posts are sat in modlog!

If poss, can tails be added as an exception? It's me that's deciding whether a post is made or not, so no spam or weird stuff will ever get sent.

Thanks.

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Tails: A Place on Lemmy for Mastodon Posts (endlesstalk.org)
 
 

Given the shared underlying protocol, I didn't like that if I saw something interesting on Mastodon, and wanted to post it on Lemmy, I'd have to screenshot it and/or re-attribute it to me rather than the original author.

Tails is an experimental community. Instead of announcing just what a Lemmy user has posted, it announces what a Fediverse actor has posted. This means that, so far, it's featured posts from Mastodon accounts like Mr Lovenstein, warsandpeas, George Takei, Low Quality Facts, and other interesting people. Lemmy users have been able to reply to the author, and have also replied to those other Mastodon accounts that responded.

You can see for yourself at [email protected]

(the usual rules apply: if you're the first person on your instance to do this, you'll likely get a blank screen or an error. Wait 10 secs or so, press refresh, and you should have it).

Same with formatting a phone number in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

lemmy.world has the community, and is keeping up to date with it, because someone (me, actually) brought it through and subscribed.

midwest.social has the community, but won't get further updates because no-one subscribed (so technically I don't have the inbox address for it - it'll be the same format as everyone else of course, but it would reject updates with the 'community has no subscribers' error if I sent stuff to it anyway).

justworks was in the same situation as midwest.social, but it has a subscriber now, so now it has everything and will keep up to date. I didn't have to do anything - the new subscriber's action re-fetched the outbox (discussed below) and luckily that contained everything that was missing. The post from infosec.exchange is there too, so that wasn't affected by federation blocks.

lemmon.website isn't running lemmy - the tails community is 'virtual' in that it's just a bunch of static files pretending to be a real community. The main address 403s 'cos thats just a folder.

infosec.pub doesn't have the community most likely because no-one who is logged in there has searched for it (instances won't search outside their own database if the query isn't from a logged-in user). lemmon.website is in their /instances list though, so there's no blocking.

  1. An outbox on lemmy contains the last 20 or so original Announces that the main community uses to tell the communities on other instances about a new post. To illustrate:
    curl --header 'accept: application/json' https://lemmy.world/c/microblogmemes/outbox | jq .orderedItems[0] would be for the most recent post on microblogmemes. (Op's post is at orderedItems[6]).
    Fetching this allows a new instance to re-create recent posts, as if it had received them at the time.

  2. Someone clicked [email protected], but didn't go further (they probably got lemmy's misleading error screen and gave up). As with midwest.social - no subscribers = no more updates.

  3. Yeah, lemmon.website is mine. Not running lemmy means I fudge things a bit (including having posts from Mastodon users, of course)

Same with formatting a phone number in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What's happened for you there isn't a problem for screenshots to really fix - it's whatever frontend you're using not giving lemmy's backend enough time to fetch a remote community. This happens loads - I even made a little video about it the other day: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/13703060

When you clicked on [email protected], it did actually go through to dbzer0, and Voyager has no trouble with the community once it's though. A little ironically perhaps, but here's a hastily combined screenshot showing it at dbzer0 and on Voyager:

edit: and the link to the post of course: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/13850191

Same with formatting a phone number in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (25 children)

Screenshotting a post from another fediverse app seems a bit crazy. As an alternative, this post is available natively in lemmy, as text and from the original author (so you can reply to him if you'd like).

I can't give a universal link to a post obviously, but if you're on lemmy.world, it's here: https://lemmy.world/post/11631169, and if you're not, it's available on the [email protected] community.

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Ancient Aliens [[email protected]] (files.mastodon.social)
 
 

cross-posted from: https://mastodon.social/users/warandpeas/statuses/111874433235642097

Image transcription: 4 panel comic by War and Peas: 1. two pharaohs from ancient egypt are standing in front of a pyramid whose construction is nearing completion. One says to the other, "You've outdone yourself this time, Babuthep." 2. he continues, "You'll be remembered for this throughout history!" 3. "It's a testament to human ingenuity." 4. time jump to the present day. At an alien conference, someone speaks to an audience, "It was aliens!"

(Originally published earlier today on mastodon.social)

Cross-posted from [email protected], a Lemmy community that natively features Mastodon posts, still attributed to the original author.

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The real DnD fantasy ... [[email protected]] (endlesstalk.org)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
 
 
The real fantasy element of Dungeons & Dragons is pretending that you have a group of friends who all get along with each other and can manage to meet regularly for four hours at a time.

(Originally published on hachyderm.io: 2024-02-04)

cross-posted from [email protected] - a lemmy community that natively features mastodon posts (and their replies) so we're not using screenshots, and lemmy users have the opportunity to respond to the original author.

edit: I realise now that the cross-link won't show up correctly, 'cos no-one on sh.itjust.works is subbed to tails, but if anyone ever does, I'll try again with a different post.

Wiser with time in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Fun fact: War and Peas is on Mastodon and through ActivityPub magic their posts now also show up in [email protected]

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How to pick up women [[email protected]] (i.imgur.com)
 
 

See the cross-post on [email protected] to upvote and respond to the original author

Collectible Hard Game [[email protected]] in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Pro tip if you write [email protected] without explicitly making it a hyperlink Lemmy will do it for you, and as a bonus the link it makes works on mobile

You can't get the staff [[email protected]] in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

This was cross-posted from a lemmy community ([email protected]) that’s sort-of bridging lemmy and mastodon. If you’re on lemmy.world, they’ll already be a post you can visit, to upvote and respond to the original author of the comic, if you wish. If you’re not on an instance that’s brought [email protected] in yet, it can be done so in the usual way, of course.

(I tried this on a different instance - lemmy being lemmy means you might have to refresh a couple of times after clicking the ! link, but that’s nothing unusual)

Collectible Hard Game [[email protected]] in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

This was cross-posted from a lemmy community ([email protected]) that's sort-of bridging lemmy and mastodon. If you're on lemmy.world, they'll already be a post you can visit, to upvote and respond to the original author of the comic, if you wish. If you're not on an instance that's brought [email protected] in yet, it can be done so in the usual way, of course.

(edit: just tried this on a different instance. lemmy being lemmy means you might have to refresh a couple of times after clicking the ! link, but that's nothing unusual)

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A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics) (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
120 comments fedilink
 
 

Searching Lemmyverse is good for finding communities. [email protected] is also a nice tool for finding new places.

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)! I will try to keep this thread updated over time.

Note: if you wish to auto-subscribe to all of the communities below, I have a post in the comments that describes how to do so.

My rough criterion was:

  • Of interest to me or a wide audience
  • Has a decent amount of activity
  • Casual / fun / interesting / cool / funny / chatty communities.
  • 0 negativity/negative vibes, news, politics, overload of tech or niche tech news/info, etc.

Directory

  • Conversation Communities - for chatty places
    • "ask" based
    • Casual chat / Misc
  • Hobbies, Creative, Passions
    • Misc
    • Artwork
    • Cooking, food, drinks
    • Gardening / Plants
    • Keyboard enthusiasts
    • Knitting, stitching, crocheting, etc
    • Reading and writing
  • Nice/Interesting/Funny pictures
    • Animals
    • Comics
    • Flags
    • Maps
    • Memes
    • Misc
    • Photography
    • Wallpapers
  • Games
    • Board games / Table top games
    • Chess
    • Crosswords / Daily games
    • Video games
  • Knowledge (e.g history, science, etc)
  • Space
  • TV (television, movies, film)
  • Music

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

(see also the list under the Wallpapers header)

Cooking, food, drinks

Generally mostly nice pics of food:

Gardening / Plants
Keyboard enthusiasts
Knitting, Stitching, Crocheting, etc
Reading and 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.

Misc
Photography
Wallpapers

Games

Board Games / Table top games

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

Chess
Crosswords / Daily games
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:

Previous

These communities have been removed from the list for not maintaining activity.

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