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

Humor & Memes

Technology

Pictures & Videos

Movies & TV

Video Games

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

    • n_emoo@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Sadly the r/dota2 community doesnt seem to have migrated that much. Which is a shame because everyone from pro players to valve use it as an official means to communicate.

      • Azzu@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 years ago

        From the way the mods of that subreddit behaved, it was pretty clear that they didn’t care at all about the protests. They made a poll and ignored the like 60% that wanted the protest to continue.

    • TeaHands@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      If you’re logged in on the website, those links should “just work” and the subscribe button is in the sidebar. Mobile website also works really well although you have to expand the sidebar to see the button.

      If you’re using one of the many different mobile apps you’ll have to let us know which one because they all seem to work completely differently at the moment!

      Edit: Just realised you’re on Kbin and it looks like Kbin is stripping the link formatting out of the post for some weird reason, that’s why you can’t click them 🤦‍♀️

  • SpamCamel@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • kite@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    My addition to this would be !lemmyapps@lemmy.world, for a good list of apps you can try out. Note that while it says apps, this also covers browser extensions and PC web apps.

    …also note I have never linked before, so I have no idea how that is going to turn out.

  • Kinolee@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • GeekFTW@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      So I’m on Kbin.social right now. Let’s say I wanna view our gaming community. like how Reddit has:

      Reddit.com/r/Subredditname

      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.

  • whoisearth@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Why the duplicate communities? My understanding was it shouldn’t matter where I subscribe to “games” the posts should be the same.

      • whoisearth@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 years ago

        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.

        https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1985

        • Zeth0s@reddthat.comEnglish
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          2 years ago

          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!

          • whoisearth@lemmy.caEnglish
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            2 years ago

            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.

            • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eeEnglish
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              2 years ago

              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.

    • Yote.zip@pawb.socialEnglish
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      2 years ago

      The posts are different on each server. They are effectively separate communities with separate names, counting the server as part of its name.