One important criteria: please only promote communities that have been at least one post in the last 7 days. And if there is none, feel free to post there and then promote it here!

This could be a weekly thread, but let's see how it goes

Finally, [email protected] and [email protected] are communities that you can subscribe to to see updates about communities

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[–] Rolando 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

[email protected] - mostly games, movies, shows, and music in the cyberpunk sci-fi genre

[email protected] - music: synthwave, vaporwave, etc. A fairly new community, a couple different people have been posting

[email protected] - music community. I was hoping someone else would make the 300th post, if not I'll post something later today.

[email protected] - a larger community, a couple of us are posting regularly, but could use more discussion

[email protected] - a community about how to help grow the fediverse. @[email protected] has been posting a weekly thread on "how is your [niche] community doing?" which is kind of like a support group for people keeping communities alive

edit: how could I forget, [email protected] - links to short stories online in all genres

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Interesting list, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I think the rest of my communities haven't seen activity lately, so I'll have to post in them first!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I did not expect !beds to be about Bedfordshire. I assumed it was furniture related.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was going to put Bedfordshire in brackets next to that, but I forgot. I knew it could cause confusion!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Its okay nothing to lose sleep over.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

For those situations where all you can say is wtf?!:

[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Didn't know about this one, thanks!

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[–] PugJesus 13 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Some casual history promotion

[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

kbin.social has been totally down for a while. I don't think your posts are actually federating when you post into a kbin.social magazine right now; the votes you are getting are probably from other lemmy.world users only.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

[email protected]

Very good point. I just had a look at https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected], and despite having 34 local subscribers (visible in the sidebar), the newest post are from 2 months ago.

@[email protected], you might have been posting only for LW users for a while :-/

[–] MrKaplan 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected], you might have been posting only for LW users for a while :-/

this is unfortunately correct for the time being.

while we still have aggressive rate limits in place to limit federation impact from kbin bugs, which started with the measures that @[email protected] mentioned, this wouldn't impact activities coming from lemmy.world towards kbin.social.

while kbin.social used to break down every now and then based on what i saw people comment, service was typically restored within a short period of time. more recently however, any time i've looked at kbin.social in the past couple weeks, it's only been showing an error page. i suspect it may have been unavailable the entire time, not just at the times i looked at it. looking at our federation stats, the last successfully sent activity from lemmy.world to kbin.social was dated 2024-06-18 00:12:25 UTC, although the actual send date may have been later. successful is also not necessarily guaranteed, as some error codes might be misinterpreted as success due to how servers can be set up and how response status codes are interpreted on the sending side.

if activities sent from lemmy.world don't reach kbin.social then the posts and comments won't be relayed to other instances. this is generally an issue in activitypub when instances are down, as such "orphaned" (at the time) communities effectively become local-only communities, isolated islands on all instances that already know about them.

at this point, the last time we've received an activity submission (federation traffic) from kbin.social as on 18th of June, so it seems like it was working for some time on that day and has been broken since.

at the start of this month, @[email protected] (kbin.social owner, main kbin dev) said that he was going to hand over management of kbin.social to someone else, as he's currently unable to take care of it. presumably this hasn't happened yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Thank you for jumping in and providing this context!

[–] Rolando 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

These are all excellent communities, and invariably some of my favorite posts of the day. I'm seeing them on lemmy.world, btw.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

They are basically local-only communities on lemmy.world at this point, unfortunately. There is no federation to any other instance for any lemmy.world user posts on those communities.

[–] Rolando 4 points 5 months ago (5 children)

@[email protected] it's time to "cross the Rubicon" to full federation!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

More animal communities:

[email protected]

[email protected] (yes this is an animal community)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

For interesting/science stuff

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If you enjoy reading, [email protected] is pretty active place to discuss what you’re reading and review it or get recommendations.

I try to post significant price drops routinely to [email protected] as well. I mostly post ones that I have heard good things about / read myself and really enjoyed and are valid at all 3 big US ebook retailers, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon at the same time or Humble Bundles. There’s no rule against others posting deals they endorse for other regions or other books, I just wanted to avoid it being a firehouse of spammy links and I only shop US Stores.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Some shameless self plugs 😛:

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

[email protected]

It’s for learning rust (the programming language) and the lemmy code base itself as a sort of “reading club”. If you’re the type of person who might be interested there’s a good chance you’ve heard of it already. We’re currently working through The Book (conventional learning resource) through a couple of Twitch streams and regular posts/discussions.

More collaborative learning activity is plenty welcome!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Shamelessly promoting my community again: [email protected]

It averages about 1 post per week but it certainly isn't dead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Stumbled upon it randomly the other day, it's pretty cool!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I am glad that you like it. It would be nice to have little more traffic but post quality is more important so I can't complain.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

For movies, TV and animation

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

[email protected] for OSRS
[email protected] for birds
[email protected] for small birds

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[–] TehBamski 6 points 5 months ago

[email protected] - Post your favorite and best music mashups.

[email protected] - This community is a place for stand-up comedy videos, shorts, gifs (with audio,) news, and discussion.

[email protected] - Basically for shirts that you think go hard. That can mean many things but it comes down to what you think stands out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

"Imaginary" content

[email protected]
[email protected] for the directory of communities

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Well I guess [email protected] [email protected] and [email protected] are already quite well known.

[email protected] and [email protected] are kinda cool as well. In general have a look at our community list, we have some good ones that are at least reasonably active.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Stick enthusiasts [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

@[email protected] On my instance there is 3 active communities, I am not admin in any of them but i think they're pretty cool

[email protected] - Community dedicated to the firefox browser [email protected] - Community dedicated to the customization of Firefox [email protected] - Got very cool CSS and looks pretty and customized, dedicated to art and pics of floating things

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Thank you for your comment. I really like the !floatingisfun one, it looks even better with the custom CSS!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Cool! Thanks for the Floating Is Fun shout out! I wish that CSS would federate to other instances, even if it's just a header image like Lemmy communities get. You Lemmy users can still use interfaces like Photon and Voyager, and it looks great on those.

As for me, I like these ones: [email protected] - I comment my puzzle results in there everyday [email protected] - Good reliable world news that covers important events [email protected] - I'm American and this is better than most of our news outlets [email protected] - Good single-serving comics in my feed [email protected] - Sometimes I throw video game music at them @[email protected] - Not a community, but I end up following MentalEdge to a lot of the communities they frequent

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Europe specific

[email protected] for news
[email protected] for casual conversations

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Film photography: [email protected]

Dragons! [email protected]

[–] AA5B 5 points 5 months ago

For fans of outdoor cooking, especially with this versatile pellet grill …. [email protected](https://lemmy.world/c/traeger)

I just got one of these grills and am learning about smoking - let’s help each other out, appreciate each others efforts, and cook some feasts

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Fandoms/pop culture

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Manual hobbies

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

[email protected] you think companies preventing you from repairing your stuff is BS?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

There is [email protected], maybe you can promote your community there?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you understand Danish, any of the communities on Feddit.dk should be interesting... But otherwise they probably aren't :P

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Makes sense! How many people are usually active on your communities, per week for instance?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The most active is probably the news community, [email protected] with 80 active users per week according to the sidebar. I think a good portion of them are users on external instances.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

For casual discussions and real life topics

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