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People looking for content outside of news, tech, memes and politics, do you know where to find communities? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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Asking this to the general audience because that's a comment I've seen quite a lot recently.

So, let's start with a list of communities that could be interesting to a wide audience, sorted by monthly active users (MAU), the most active being on top.

[email protected] (1.6k MAU)
[email protected] (521 MAU)
[email protected] (453 MAU)
[email protected] (140 MAU)
[email protected] (133 MAU)
[email protected] (130 MAU)
[email protected] (69 MAU)
[email protected] (56 MAU)
[email protected] (31 MAU)
[email protected] (24 MAU)
[email protected] (12 MAU)
[email protected] (9 MAU)

Those numbers may seem low, but remember that those are active users, who at least commented or posted in the last month. So even if you are afraid to be shouting to the abyss, there will be other people next to you to keep the ball rolling.

Also, please note that those communities are suffering from the current tedious discoverability of new content on Lemmy. I'm hoping to make them more popular with this post, as I'm sure those are topics that can interest a lot of people.

Another thing to keep in mind is that Lemmy cannot replace 18 years of content creation overnight. It will take time for those communities to grow to the same level of content and activity than there counterpart, but with a bit of time, we'll get there.

In addition, there are a few places to look out for new communities.

The first place to look for is https://lemmyverse.net, but Lemmy.world communities are currently excluded for some reason (https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer/issues/139).

A second place is this community: [email protected]. People tend to promote their communities there, you can also ask for a community you are looking for.

Finally, [email protected] provides a daily report of communities becoming popular.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

If you're interested in gardening or ecology, the entire Solarpunk instance (slrpnk.net) is full of great munis for you:

[email protected]

And I think the following is a comprehensive list of cycling munis:

[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Similarly, science geeks of all sorts (biology, nature, space, math, physics, etc) should check out the mander.xyz communities.

[email protected] is not terribly active but they have pinned posts of a lot of health based communities and resources in the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do I subscribe to those two DIYs and Cocktails... as a kbin user, from kbin.social, without creating yet another login somewhere else?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So IIRC the bang-at instance neutral link format directs users to yourinstance.tld/c/[email protected]. Kbinsters need to change the /c/ to a /m/ to make it work.

But I might be wrong; better to ask your instancemates.1

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

ty!