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Index of Lemmy Communities

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A community to index interesting Lemmy communities.

All instances are welcome - post communities in one of the 5 main post topics (closest that matches, discussion on main topics can happen in the discussion thread).

Please also provide a very brief description of the community. (max 80 characters to make scrolling through a list easier.)

Link format must be [email protected] - Description of community

Community rules:

  1. Be respectful of other users.

Topic post rules:

  1. Only post link to communities in the topic posts, discussion should happen in the separate discussion post. All discussion will be removed in the topic posts to make it easy to find community links.

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This community is intended to act an index of new and active smaller and harder to find communities. Post new communities in one of the 5 primary posts.

Anyone can post new communities, just please abide by the format in the sidebar.

You can find new daily communities with this link:

https://lemmy.world/communities?listingType=Local&sort=New&page=1

It's not the best tool, but it allows you to see which communities have some activity and which are just dead spuds.

I'm open to suggestions on the descriptions of the 5 primary topics - I just ran with what I thought was a good descriptor of 5 different categories.

Feel free to use your own personal subscriptions of communities to add here. The idea is that this place can be a community pasteboard.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Maybe you could have a weekly post to remind people this community exists? Like 'Find a new (to you) community to follow!' With links to the categories or something? I'm not sure how to improve discovery without occasional new posts.

But it would be nice to have a resource where you can easily leave a comment saying a community doesn't exist anymore or it moved or whatever.

[–] laverabe 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The weekly post is a good idea. I'll look into maybe creating a bot for that in the future.

But it would be nice to have a resource where you can easily leave a comment saying a community doesn’t exist anymore or it moved or whatever.

Couldn't anyone just reply to the deleted community comment link with something like ?

I think most communities wind up kinda just going idle rather than deleted. The big communities have such power in numbers, it's very difficult to sustain them without a mass influx like TenForward did. A few others have succeeded.

I think this just gives a little tool to the small communities that might need it, and it could improve Lemmy overall with more interesting and active smaller communities. The top 50 communities should really be in a constant flux if Lemmy is going to improve over time. Preferably on not just LW as well...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Couldn't anyone just reply to the deleted community comment link with something like ?

Oh, yeah, that's what I was trying to say but I worded it badly. Unlike a separate website, people can just easily comment on the status. Or link to an active community with the same theme, or something.