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]
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[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] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am using "connect for lemmy" app. Can someone please explain how to join communities? Just signed up and very confused.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you open communities you can use the three dot menu in the top right to subscribe to them

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

Hey thanks!

[–] Mintyy 3 points 1 year ago

I've used connect for a while now and while I'm pretty happy with it for browsing, I'm not in love with how difficult it is to join communities. Especially when you want to join a bunch of communities if your account is new.

I found it way easier to join a bunch of communities in Chrome (which is made a lot easier on the actual lemmy website) and then coming back to connect to browse.

It's less of an issue if you just wanna join the odd community, but if you are looking to add a bunch I wouldn't bother trying to do so through connect.

[–] randomwither 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Connect is suuuuuper unstable for me at the moment, but I find it way easier to navigate than Jerboa. As someone said, you can use the three dots at the top right to subscribe.

Instances can be super confusing, but as Lemmy grows, it'll be simpler to figure things out 😊. Don't worry, it's a learning curve for all of us!

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

Definitely a learning curve. At least sort of figured out finally how to join communities. What's sort of confusing for me now is communities with same names but different instances (is that the right word?). Then I have check back to see whether I have joined it or is it a different one. This part is super confusing for me at present because I came across many such instances.

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

Could that be due to your instance and not the app? Connect has been working well for me with only a few random errors that don't affect much. Yesterday it wasn't loading my lemmy.world account because the instance servers were struggling.