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
!Ich_iel@feddit.de is missing
Nice!
Can anyone help me how to subscribe to these communities? Thank you
thx for the list
PS5 community is dead any alternatives??
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.
Why the duplicate communities? My understanding was it shouldn’t matter where I subscribe to “games” the posts should be the same.
There are different communities. You can subscribe any of them from any instance, but they are not the same.
Like john@gmail.com and john@outlook.com are different emails, and you can mail any of them using your email provider.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Who’s angry? Lol. Concerned.
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.
So I’m on Kbin.social right now. Let’s say I wanna view our gaming community. like how Reddit has:
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/gaming@lemmy.world, I’ll see your gaming community. Same if you do lemmy.world/c/gaming you see yours, but lemmy.world/c/gaming@kbin.social 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.