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

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected] NOTE: This one is a bot community forwarding tech news. Not for discussion, but it's useful to browse.

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 [email protected] to see people showing off their new communities.

Edit: Removed spaces from links, added xbox to games section

Edit 2: android community moved to [email protected], updated link

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You aren't alone. I'm still trying to figure it out, too. First step was to settle on my go-to instance, which just today I've decided will be kbin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I picked kbin too. It seems like the most complete platform, and is more easy to navigate than lemmy... but that's kind of a low bar. I'm still very lost.

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

Ironically, the trouble you're having with subscribing is because you're on Kbin. On Lemmy you can just click the links in the post

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

It's a bit cumbersome on mobile, especially that kbin doesn't have a native app (yet). First of all, magazines/communities have a name and a domain, just like email, e.g.: [email protected] (or if you are "native" on lemmy.world, it's https://lemmy.world/c/dnd)

The easiest way to subscribe on a different instance is to open the magazines/communities in your browser and manipulate the URL a bit. The above c/m will look like this from your instance: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]

So if you would like to open then subscribe to any c/m, you just need to change the end part.
E.g.

from kbin.social to subscribe to [email protected]: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]
from lemm.ee to subsciribe to [email protected]: https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected]

In case of lemmy instances it's always /c, in case of kbin instances (there are more of that too!), it's always /m

On PC there are addons (e.g. for Firefox) that automatically rewrites the URLs to the correct ones.
Hope this helps.

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

It seems to be harder to subscribe to Lemmy communities from kbin.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok - I just figured it out but it was not intuitive. This is for kbin.social. Unsure of the differences to Lemmy.

You have to go to search, then click magazines. This link should take you right there:

https://kbin.social/magazines

Then search for what you want eg newcommunities.

That should show local communities as well as ones that are federated.

It wasn’t apparent on mobile but apparently there’s a subscribe button on the search results on the right side.

If you click on the community you can still subscribe but clicking the side bar on the left. There’s a subscribe button if you scroll down a bit.

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

On PC, if you are browsing any magazine (local or not) you can clearly see the subscribe(and block) button on the right. I usually go to the magazine of interest when I read interesting post.

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

On mobile you can click the menu button in the upper left corner to get to the thread and magazine info of your current page to follow that thread or subscribe to the magazine it was posted to. It's quicker than scrolling all the way to the bottom of the page.