cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2216085
Searching Lemmyverse is good for finding communities. !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl 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
- !asklemmy@lemmy.ml
- !asklemmy@lemmy.world
- !askmeanything@lemmy.ca
- !askouija@lemmy.world
- !askscience@lemmy.world
- !askuk@feddit.uk
- !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Casual chat / Misc
- !cafe@monyet.cc - casual chat community. Worth noting that the instance (and likely most users) are Malaysian.
- !casualconversation@lemm.ee
- !edc@sopuli.xyz (chat about things you carry everyday)
- !frugal@lemmy.world
- !mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
- !nostalgia@lemmy.ca
- !showerthoughts@lemmy.world
- !streetwear@lemmy.world
- !ukcasual@lemmy.world
- !yurop@lemm.ee
Hobbies, Creative, Passions
Misc
- !3dprinting@lemmy.world
- !faceting@lemmy.world (gemstone cutting)
- !imadethis@lemm.ee
- !lego@lemmy.world
- !tabletopminis@lemmy.world
- !wetshaving@sub.wetshaving.social
- !woodworking@lemmy.ca
Artwork
(see also the list under the Wallpapers header)
- !ai_art@lemmy.world
- !albumartporn@lemmy.world
- !artshare@lemmy.world - for artists to share their own work, more amateur than the others
- !artporn@lemm.ee
- !apocalypticart@discuss.tchncs.de
- !cybermoe@ani.social
- !digitalart@lemmy.world
- !imageai@sh.itjust.works
- !imaginary@reddthat.com
- !imaginarycosmere@sffa.community
- !imaginarydragons@leminal.space
- !imaginarystarships@lemmy.world
- !imaginarywarhammer@lemmy.world
- !hobbit_art@hobbit.world - Lord of the Rings/Hobbit related art
- !psychedelic_artwork@psychedelia.ink
- !traditional_art@lemmy.world
Cooking, food, drinks
- !castiron@lemmy.world
- !cocktails@lemmy.world
- !coffee@lemmy.world
- !cooking@lemmy.world
- !espresso@infosec.pub
- !homebrewing@sopuli.xyz
- !recipes@feddit.uk
- !sourdough@lemmy.world
- !veganrecipes@sh.itjust.works
Generally mostly nice pics of food:
Gardening / Plants
- !gardening@lemmy.world
- !houseplants@mander.xyz
- !mushrooms@lemmy.world
- !mycology@mander.xyz
- !succulents@midwest.social
Keyboard enthusiasts
Knitting, Stitching, Crocheting, etc
- !amigurumi@lemmy.world
- !crochet@lemmy.ca
- !knitting@lemmy.world
- !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works
- !sewing@lemmy.world
- !sewingrepairing@sh.itjust.works
- !quilting@lemmy.world
Reading and Writing
- !books@lemmy.ml
- !comics@lemmy.ml
- !comicbooks@lemmy.world
- !eurographicnovels@lemm.ee
- !keepwriting@lemmy.world
- !writingprompts@lemmy.world
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.
- !aww@lemmy.ml
- !aww@lemmy.world
- !awwnverts@lemmy.world
- !bats@lemmy.world
- !beebutts@lemmy.world
- !birding@lemmy.world
- !bugmenagerie@possumpat.io
- !bugs@lemmy.world
- !cat@lemmy.world
- !cats@midwest.social
- !dogs@lemmy.world
- !foxes@lemmy.world
- !illegallysmolcats@lemmy.world
- !quackers@lemmy.world
- !squirrels@lemmy.ca
- !superbowl@lemmy.world
- !spiders@lemmy.world
- !wildlifephotography@lemmy.world
Comics
- !comicstrips@lemmy.world
- !cyanideandhappiness@lemm.ee
- !nathanwpyle@lemmy.world
- !thefarside@sh.itjust.works
- !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org
- !xkcd@lemmy.world
Flags
Maps
Memes
Meme communities in general can overload your feed, so keep that in mind.
- !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone (lgbt memes)
- !adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- !animalswithjobs@lemmy.world
- !anime_irl@ani.social
- !animemes@ani.social
- !antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world
- !best_of_mastodon@sh.itjust.works
- !bikinibottomtwitter@lemmy.world
- !boneappletea@lemmy.world
- !chevron7@lemmy.world (stargate memes)
- !curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works
- !dnd_memes@lemmy.world
- !fakehistoryporn@lemmy.world
- !foundsatan@lemmy.world
- !funny@sh.itjust.works
- !funny@lemmy.ml
- !funny@lemmy.world
- !greentext@sh.itjust.works
- !grimdank@lemmy.world
- !historymemes@kbin.social
- !lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world
- !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
- !lotrmemes@midwest.social
- !me_irl@lemmy.world
- !memes@midwest.social
- !memes@lemmy.ml
- !memes@lemmy.world
- !memes@sopuli.xyz
- !memes@feddit.uk (uk memes)
- !meow_irl@sopuli.xyz
- !metalmemes@lemmy.world (metal music memes)
- !microblogmemes@lemmy.world
- !okmatewanker@feddit.uk
- !programmer_humor@programming.dev
- !raccoons@lemmy.world
- !relationshipmemes@lemmyis.fun
- !risa@startrek.website (star trek memes)
- !rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
- !science_memes@mander.xyz
- !simpsonsshitposting@sh.itjust.works
- !starwarsmemes@lemmy.world
- !tenforward@lemmy.world (star trek memes)
- !tumblr@lemmy.world
- !trippinthroughtime@lemmy.ca
- !witchymemes@lemmy.world
Misc
- !badrealestate@feddit.uk - awful real estate photos, has a decent amount of comments
- !tails@lemmon.website - posts from Mastodon users. Mostly memes and funny pics.
Photography
- !abandonedporn@reddthat.com
- !abstractphotography@lemmy.ml
- !accidentalrenaissance@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !analog@lemmy.world - really cool photography pics
- !bewowed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- !castles@lemm.ee
- !cozy_places@lemmy.world
- !earthporn@lemmy.ml
- !hiking@lemmy.world
- !natures_patterns@lemmy.world
- !oldschoolcool@lemmy.world
- !pics@lemmy.world
- !streetphotography@lemmy.world
- !travelphotography@lemmy.world
Wallpapers
- !animewallpapers@ani.social
- !mobilewallpaper@lemmy.world
- !wallpapers@lemmy.world
- !wallpapers@lemmy.ca
Games
Board Games / Table top games
The ttrpg.network instance has a lot of communities based around table top gaming & RPGs.
- !boardgames@feddit.de
- !dnd@lemmy.world
- !dndnext@ttrpg.network
- !jrpg@lemmy.zip
- !osr@lemm.ee
- !rpg@ttrpg.network
Chess
- !anarchychess@sopuli.xyz (funny chess)
- !Chess@lemmy.ml
Crosswords / Daily games
- !crossword@lemmy.world (daily crosswords)
- !dailygames@lemmy.zip
Video Games
- !dosgaming@retrolemmy.com
- !games@lemmy.world
- !gaming@lemmy.ml
- !gaming@lemmy.zip
- !nintendo@lemmy.world
- !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works (more conversation based than the others)
- !pcgaming@lemmy.ca
- !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world
- !pokemon@lemmy.ml
- !retrogaming@lemmy.world
- !steam@lemmy.ml
- !steamdeck@lemmy.ml (more news based)
- !steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
- !virtualreality@lemmy.world
Knowledge (e.g history, science)
- !archaeology@mander.xyz
- !biodiversity@mander.xyz
- !digitalbioacoustics@lemmy.world
- !history@lemmy.world
- !historyporn@lemmy.world
- !interestingasfuck@lemm.ee
- !interestingasfuck@lemmy.world
- !longreads@sh.itjust.works
- !palaeontology@mander.xyz
- !science@lemmy.ml
- !science@lemmy.world
- !til@lemmy.world
- !wikipedia@lemmy.world
Space
- !astronomy@mander.xyz
- !astrophotography@lemmy.world
- !perseverancerover@lemmy.world
- !space@lemmy.world
TV (television), movies, film
- !anime@lemmy.ml
- !bluey@lemmy.world
- !bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world
- !futurama@lemmy.world
- !marvelstudios@lemmy.world
- !movies@lemm.ee
- !movies@lemmy.world
- !moviesandtv@lemm.ee
- !moviesuggestions@lemmy.world
- !television@lemmy.world
- !quarks@startrek.website
- !scifi@kbin.social
- !sciencefiction@lemmy.world (note: covers science fiction across media, e.g games, tv, books, etc)
- !startrek@startrek.website
- !star_wars@lemmy.world
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.
- I made a fuller list of British music genres/communities/artists here (e.g grime, dnb, jungle, uk hh, idm, rock/metal/punk, etc)
There’s also:
- !80smusic@lemmy.world
- !90smusic@lemmy.world
- !classicrock@lemmy.world
- !dancehall@lemmy.world
- !guitars@lemmy.world
- !guitarpedals@lemmy.world
- !hiphopheads@sopuli.xyz
- !kpop@lemmy.world
- !music@lemmy.world
- !popheads@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
- !ska@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !thelyricsgame@lemmy.ca
- !vgmusic@lemmy.world
Previous
These communities have been removed from the list for not maintaining activity.
spoiler
- !AccidentalRenaissance@kbin.social
- !amoledbackgrounds@lemmy.world
- !asktheworld@lemm.ee
- !apocalypticart@feddit.de (migrated to !apocalypticart@discuss.tchncs.de)
- !battlemaps@lemmy.world
- !battlemaps@sh.itjust.works
- !battlemaps@ttrpg.network
- !cats@lemmy.world
- !casualconversation@lemmy.world (migrated to !casualconversation@lemm.ee)
- !cyberpunk@lemmy.villa-straylight.social
- !dailydoseofcute@lemmy.world
- !daystrominstitute@startrek.website
- !deserts@lemmy.world
- !dollhouse@lemmy.world
- !earthporn@lemmy.world
- !filmposterporn@lemmy.world (community was deleted/removed)
- !fountainpens@wayfarershaven.eu
- !gardening@thegarden.land
- !gatze@feddit.de
- !giftofgaming@lemmy.world
- !greentext@lemmy.ml
- !history@kbin.social
- !HistoryArtifacts@kbin.social
- !illegallysmolbirbs@mander.xyz
- !interesting@feddit.de
- !jellyfish@lemmy.world
- !jwst@lemmy.world
- !lasercutting@lemm.ee
- !moviesandtv@lemmy.film
- !nature@lemmy.world
- !occultmemes@lemmy.world
- !oddlyspecificplaylists@sh.itjust.works
- !old_maps@mander.xyz
- !pf2general@pathfinder.social
- !pictures@aussie.zone
- !pixelpassport@lemm.ee
- !pottery@lemmy.world
- !raining@sh.itjust.works
- !ramen@lemmy.world
- !reclaimedbynature@lemmy.world
- !reggae@lemmy.world
- !rpggreentext@ttrpg.network
- !shiba@lemmy.world
- !sideoftheroad@possumpat.io
- !space@kbin.social
- !spacepics@lemmy.world
- !SquaredCircle@kbin.social (migrated to !squaredcircle@lemmy.zip)
- !strassenfotografie@feddit.de
- !stonermemes@lemmy.beyondcombustion.net
- !veganhomecooks@lemmy.world (migrated to !homecooks@vegantheoryclub.org)
- !undergroundhiphop@lemmy.world
- !weddings@lemmy.world
My personal shortlist
- !casualconversation@lemm.ee
- !cats@lemmy.world
- !showerthoughts@lemmy.world
- !pics@lemmy.world
- !science@lemmy.world
- !interestingasfuck@lemm.ee
- !til@lemmy.ca
- !imaginary@reddthat.com
- !nostalgia@lemmy.ca
- !space@lemmy.world
- !bats@lemmy.world
- !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
- !movies@lemm.ee
- !yurop@lemm.ee
- !gardening@lemmy.world
And then a few specific
It’s a nifty list. I’ve not found a decent mini pc community yet but hope to someday.
Thought I’d repost this over here too, seems relevant.
You might want to throw @bunnies@lemmy.world and @snakes@lemmy.world on there too. Also @incremental_games@incremental.social
I’ll never remember the difference between
!communityName@instanceand@communityName@instance. When I go to view the community name and rules, at least on Kbin/Mbin I see it listing itself as@communityName@instance. I think I had a similar issue awhile backTo be honest it might be platform specific
How can I sub to all of these collectively?
Bonus: don’t have time and want to just auto-subscribe to all (please note this isn’t reversible without manually unsubbing yourself, there’s a lot of niche communities here that may not appeal to you - you can remove them from the JSON file if needed)?
- On PC, download this JSON file
- On PC, download Lemmy Migration Tool (download the relevant .zip file)
- Unzip folder, run file. Lemmy Migration Tool will now be open, like in this pic.
- Note: in the
Settingstab, you may wish to untick everything exceptUpload Community Subscriptions. Failure to do so may result in your Lemmy settings being changed. - Click the
Uploadtab. Then, enter your instance name and login details, click the upload button and upload the JSON file. - It’ll automatically subscribe you to them all. If it looks like it’s frozen, it hasn’t. Just let it run. If you’re on a small instance, you may need to re-run it a couple times (it can error if your instance hasn’t discovered the community yet, this is solved on a rerun).
Of course, some may not be of interest or may overload your feed (meme communities can do this). Unsubscribe as needed.
Lots of clicks I’m afraid
Not necessarily :) see my reply
Nice!
I can also recommend the following communities:
!youshouldknow@lemmy.world
!coolguides@lemmy.caHopefully this will revive some cummunities
here’s my pick.
- !asklemmy@lemmy.ml
- !showerthoughts@lemmy.world
- !aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
- !mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
- !til@lemmy.world
- !3dprinting@lemmy.ml
- !3dprinting@lemmy.world
- !games@lemmy.world
- !freegames@feddit.uk
- !freegames@lemmy.ml
- !artporn@lemm.ee
- !artshare@lemmy.world
- !books@lemmy.ml
- !bookstodon@a.gup.pe
- !books@lemmy.world
- !fiction@literature.cafe
- !lightnovels@ani.social
- !fantasy@lemmy.ml
- !horror@lemmy.ml
- !horrorlit@lemmy.world
- !lovecraft_mythos@lemmy.world
- !sciencefiction@lemmy.world
- !science@lemmy.world
- !science@lemmy.ml
- !space@lemmy.world
@musicals@kbin.social
@hobbydrama@lemmy.worldSadly both are inactive. I just posted to @musicals@kbin.social though, and intend to post to @hobbydrama@lemmy.world… sometime.
@namethatsong@lemmy.wtf, for helping people find out what song they are thinking of, just like the subreddit of the same name.
You need to use an exclamation mark to link to communities, for example it should be !musicals@kbin.social instead of @musicals@kbin.social
Communities show up as
@communityname@instance.comto me when I’m browsing—I am on Kbin. It would be really nice if the two could just agree on this or make the links work with each other, because I know when I view them on a Lemmy website they say!communityname@instance.com.Never actually realized that Kbin/Mbin uses a different format for community links
That would be great indeed
