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
- !NoStupidQuestions@lemmy.world
- !AskLemmy@lemmy.ml
- !YouShouldKnow@lemmy.world
- !Fediverse@lemmy.world
- !general@lemmy.world
- !showerthoughts@lemmy.world
- !UKCasual@lemmy.world
- !casualconversation@lemmy.world
Humor & Memes
- !LemmyShitpost@lemmy.world
- !memes@lemmy.ml
- !me_irl@lemmy.ml
- !dadjokes@lemmy.world
- !trippinthroughtime@lemmy.ca
- !humor@lemmy.world
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world
- !programmerhumor@programming.dev
- !starwarsmemes@lemmy.world
Technology
- !technology@lemmy.world
- !technology@lemmy.ml
- !privacyguides@lemmy.one
- !privacy@lemmy.ml
- !linux@lemmy.ml
- !singularity@lemmy.fmhy.ml
- !android@lemdro.id
- !technews@radiation.party NOTE: This one is a bot community forwarding tech news. Not for discussion, but it’s useful to browse.
Pictures & Videos
- !pics@lemmy.world
- !videos@lemmy.world
- !aww@lemmy.world
- !internetfuneral@lemmy.world
- !AnimalsWithJobs@lemmy.world
- !YoutubeHaiku@lemmy.world
Movies & TV
Video Games
- !games@sh.itjust.works
- !games@lemmy.world
- !pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
- !linux_gaming@lemmy.world
- !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
- !retrogaming@lemmy.world
- !ps5@lemmy.ml
- !xbox@lemmy.world
- !nintendo@lemmy.world
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 !newcommunities@lemmy.world to see people showing off their new communities.
Edit: Removed spaces from links, added xbox to games section
Edit 2: android community moved to android@lemdro.id, updated link
You aren’t alone. I’m still trying to figure it out, too. First step was to settle on my go-to instance, which just today I’ve decided will be kbin.
I picked kbin too. It seems like the most complete platform, and is more easy to navigate than lemmy… but that’s kind of a low bar. I’m still very lost.
It’s a bit cumbersome on mobile, especially that kbin doesn’t have a native app (yet). First of all, magazines/communities have a name and a domain, just like email, e.g.: dnd@lemmy.world (or if you are “native” on lemmy.world, it’s https://lemmy.world/c/dnd)
The easiest way to subscribe on a different instance is to open the magazines/communities in your browser and manipulate the URL a bit. The above c/m will look like this from your instance: https://kbin.social/m/dnd@lemmy.world
So if you would like to open then subscribe to any c/m, you just need to change the end part.
E.g.
- from kbin.social to subscribe to asklemmy@lemmy.ml: https://kbin.social/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
- from lemm.ee to subsciribe to nintendo@lemmy.world: https://lemm.ee/c/nintendo@lemmy.world
In case of lemmy instances it’s always /c, in case of kbin instances (there are more of that too!), it’s always /m
On PC there are addons (e.g. for Firefox) that automatically rewrites the URLs to the correct ones.
Hope this helps.
Ok - I just figured it out but it was not intuitive. This is for kbin.social. Unsure of the differences to Lemmy.
You have to go to search, then click magazines. This link should take you right there:
Then search for what you want eg newcommunities.
That should show local communities as well as ones that are federated.
It wasn’t apparent on mobile but apparently there’s a subscribe button on the search results on the right side.
If you click on the community you can still subscribe but clicking the side bar on the left. There’s a subscribe button if you scroll down a bit.
On PC, if you are browsing any magazine (local or not) you can clearly see the subscribe(and block) button on the right. I usually go to the magazine of interest when I read interesting post.
