BestOfLemmy

A cool look at running a lemmy instance

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

Search Lemmyverse is good for finding communities.

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)!

Conversation communities

These are places that are 'chatty', good if you want a lot of comments.

"ask" based

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Casual chat / Misc

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Hobbies, Creative, & Passions

Misc

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Artwork

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Cooking, food, drinks

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Generally mostly nice pics of food:

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Gardening / Plants

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Keyboard enthusiasts

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Knitting, Stitching, Crocheting, etc

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Reading & Writing

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Sport

Honestly there are so many sport communities around - if you search Lemmyverse for popular sports, you will almost certainly find more.

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Nice/Interesting/Funny pictures

Animals

Literally just pictures of cute animals.

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Comics

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Flags

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Maps

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Memes

Meme communities in general can overload your feed, so keep that in mind.

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Photography

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Games

Board Games / Table top games

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

note: the battlemaps communities seem to mostly cross-post between eachother at the moment.

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Video Games

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Knowledge (e.g history, science)

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Space

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TV (television), movies, film

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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:

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The ps5 community from Lemmy.ml is planning to migrate.

This... is an important test and something to study. Migrations across the Lemmy-verse are untested. I'm going to keep a close eye on this community and seeing if it works out for them.

I just think this is a really helpful and insightful comment, that deserves to be highlighted.

This was an interesting idea that probably deserves more recognition across Lemmy.

This "Watch Party" group seeks to watch a movie together with the community, and got some good "live" discussion as the movie was going on. Hopefully they can roll out more movies as time goes on.

For innovation in the Lemmy Community, I think they deserve a "BestOf" recognition.

https://lemmy.world/post/1245322

Instead of just one post, I'll highlight three posts.

https://lemmy.world/post/875584

https://lemmy.world/post/1035095

https://lemmy.world/post/1061471

The https://lemmy.world administrator team has been working with the Lemmy developers to fix issues associated with the currently largest instance of Lemmy in the Fediverse. July 1st was also the promised date where Reddit would cut 3rd party API access.

The most recent post is showing off some development progress with SQL statements that have been part of the bottleneck in practice. There's still plenty of performance issues of course, but the big problems have been touched upon and already have been fixed.

This is Lemmy's second inside joke after the migration! Hopefully there will be more to come 👀

The https://programming.dev Lemmy-instance continues to grow and attract many programmers. I managed to catch this meme-post from the programming-humor community and it made me smile.

I put forth this post not only as a pretty funny joke, but also for the https://programming.dev server + community for making a good instance where programming related topics can be discussed. Maybe not a BestOf level meme, but its a BestOf server that should be recognized!

Just a fun meme I'd like to highlight today!

August 22nd, 2023. History occurs on Lemmy.world

I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can’t take up too much space. What food do I pack?

OP is very much focused on answers and taking this very seriously. They mean business, about not doing their business.

But, in their steadfast preparation they make a fatal flaw...

[ANSWERED] How long does it take your body to process and excrete gummy worms, and how to make it faster? [URGENT AND SERIOUS RESPONSE REQUIRED]

The memes came in hot.

What makes Lemmy feel like home After day 3 Lemmy users in 3 days

A tragedy

3 Days? Supermarket shelves in 3 days

Title required

I hate pooping

Poo

I’m sorryy :(

Yeah!.. No uh pooping!

Built different

It’s a struggle

Shitty Situation

Collapsing an entire industry

Created a new Lemmy user manual

Putin’s address to the nation - OP "is that a threat?"

No 🚽 where we’re going

Respect the poop guy, him who goes to a honorable quest

Lemmy right now

OP seemed to enjoy them

More notable moments:

Things are looking dire, OP still seeking advice the next day

Is this all a part of some spiritual journey for OP?

A fan asks for a photo.

The community gave OP their everlasting support.

Did they accomplish their goal?? I DID IT

Maybe, the journey is not at it's end yet... They asked for advice about ramen, and calcium tablets...

The community still waits with baited breath...

Godspeed, u/mizu6079 o7

Link (from Lemmy.world): https://lemmy.world/post/205635

Original Title: "Hey could we defederate with exploding-heads.com/", though "we" refers to the sh.itjust.works community, not Lemmy.world.

This is a tough one. Its a dramatic debate, so its perhaps not the best to "showcase" as a BestOf. But... its still an important debate that strikes at the heart of Federation, and Defederation.

With 626 comments at the time when I discovered it, and some of the liveliest discussion this week in Lemmy in general, its a debate clearly worth having.

As far as I know, https://startrek.website is the first "small" instance to grow beyond 10k users, and that's enough to deserve a "BestOf" topic in my books.

Lemmy users should be able to access it by clicking here

I think kbin users have that whole magazine thing and it needs to be a link like this instead??

https://lemmy.world/comment/355361

User @[email protected] discusses sunk-cost fallacy, and how big services become irrelevant.

Great post about breathing new life into the Internet 🙂

Pretty good news, and likely useful information if anyone out there is running their own Lemmy instance.

This is the first practical / pragmatic Lemmy bot that I've seen.

The code is quite straightforward to read through as well, and its use is quite easy. These bots are highly useful for Magic the Gathering players, to help look up various cards without having to leave the discussion site.

By adding bots like this to your community, you can improve the discussion. Since a lot of people are talking about #RedditBlackout, free-access to bots like this are going to be a key-feature Lemmy offers over Reddit.

Lemmy.world users: Notice who posted this?

Yes, its a https://beehaw.org user, posting to [email protected].

Despite the defederation, we still get beehaw.org users posts and comments. We just got to go through 3rd party services now (such as lemmy.ml) to talk or interact with beehaw.org users.

We're cutoff, but not really. I think this post deserves a "Best of" since its one of the clearest examples of how Defederation works in practice. Its not as bad as #RedditBlackout users seem to think it is.

This "You Should Know" post is top of ~June, for good reason. This post announced the kbin.social Federation/compatibility with Lemmy.

A huge amount of test-posts from a wide-variety of instances came in to test the new federation abilities (including from kbin.social, one of the biggest kbin communities).

I think this post shows the hope that over the long-term, we can get federation across the larger fediverse. I don't know if Mastodon is in the works, but these kinds of posts give hope.

This [email protected] discussion is one of the best discussions I've found on Lemmy so far. It highlights the advantages of federation, with users coming in from https://Beehaw.org, https://lemmy.world (even if we're defederated), and https://programming.dev.

This serves as a "meta" discussion. Yes, https://Beehaw.org and https://lemmy.world have defederated away from each other. But we can still communicate and interact in neutral 3rd-party servers just fine.