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A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

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The rules for behavior are a straight carry over of Mastodon.World's rules. You can click the link but we've reposted them here in brief, as a guideline. We will continue to use the Mastodon.World rules as the master list. Over all, be nice to each other and remember this isn't a community built around debate. For the rules about formatting your posts, scroll down to number 2.

1. Follow the rules of Mastodon.world, which can be found here.

A. Provide an inclusive and supportive environment. This means if it isn't rulebreaking and we can't be supportive to them then we probably shouldn't engage.

B. No illegal content.

C. Use content warnings where appropriate. This means mark your submissions NSFW if need be.

D. No uncivil behavior. This includes, but is not limited to: Name Calling; Bullying; Trolling; Disruptive Commenting; or Personal Criticisms.

E. No Harrassment. As an example in relation to Transgender people this includes, deadnaming, misgendering, and promotion of conversion therapy. Similarly Misogyny, Misandry, and Racism are also banned here.

2. Include a community or instance title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities or instances all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.

Formatting

Please include this following format in your post:

[link text](/c/[email protected])

This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't

You should also include either:

[email protected]

or instance.com/c/community

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Q: Why do I get a 404?

A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.

Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?

A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn't get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn't actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.

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A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics) (self.newcommunities)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Madbrad200 to c/newcommunities
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Searching Lemmyverse is good for finding communities. [email protected] is also a nice tool for finding new places.

I posted this on the other site but I thought I'd copy over here too, lots of good communities around to subscribe to if you want a more casual/fun frontpage that isn't just tech news, elon musk, or politics.

note: all of these communities have posts. If they appear empty, it simply means nobody on the instance you use has visited them before (or you might have blocked them and forgot, I've done it before, lol)! I will try to keep this thread updated over time.

Note: if you wish to auto-subscribe to all of the communities below, I have a post in the comments that describes how to do so.

My rough criterion was:

  • Of interest to me or a wide audience
  • Has a decent amount of activity
  • Casual / fun / interesting / cool / funny / chatty communities.
  • 0 negativity/negative vibes, news, politics, overload of tech or niche tech news/info, etc.

Directory

  • Conversation Communities - for chatty places
    • "ask" based
    • Casual chat / Misc
  • Hobbies, Creative, Passions
    • Misc
    • Artwork
    • Cooking, food, drinks
    • Gardening / Plants
    • Keyboard enthusiasts
    • Knitting, stitching, crocheting, etc
    • Reading and writing
  • Nice/Interesting/Funny pictures
    • Animals
    • Comics
    • Flags
    • Maps
    • Memes
    • Misc
    • Photography
    • Wallpapers
  • Games
    • Board games / Table top games
    • Chess
    • Crosswords / Daily games
    • Video games
  • Knowledge (e.g history, science, etc)
  • Space
  • TV (television, movies, film)
  • Music

Conversation communities

These are places that are 'chatty', good if you want a lot of comments.

"ask" based
Casual chat / Misc

Hobbies, Creative, Passions

Misc
Artwork

(see also the list under the Wallpapers header)

Cooking, food, drinks

Generally mostly nice pics of food:

Gardening / Plants
Keyboard enthusiasts
Knitting, Stitching, Crocheting, etc
Reading and Writing
Sport

Honestly there are so many sport communities around - if you search Lemmyverse for popular sports, you will almost certainly find more.

Nice/Interesting/Funny pictures

Animals

Literally just pictures of cute animals.

Comics
Flags
Maps
Memes

Meme communities in general can overload your feed, so keep that in mind.

Misc
Photography
Wallpapers

Games

Board Games / Table top games

The ttrpg.network instance has a lot of communities based around table top gaming & RPGs.

Chess
Crosswords / Daily games
Video Games

Knowledge (e.g history, science)

Space

TV (television), movies, film

Music

Lots of music communities on Lemmy. Search Lemmyverse for genres of interest for more, this definitely isn't exhaustive.

Note that music communities generally have low comment counts, from my experience.

There's also:

Previous

These communities have been removed from the list for not maintaining activity.

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[–] Madbrad200 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Bonus: don't have time and want to just auto-subscribe to all (please note this isn't reversible without manually unsubbing yourself, there's a lot of niche communities here that may not appeal to you - you can remove them from the JSON file if needed)?

  • On PC, download this JSON file
  • On PC, download Lemmy Migration Tool (download the relevant .zip file)
  • Unzip folder, run file. Lemmy Migration Tool will now be open, like in this pic.
  • Note: in the Settings tab, you may wish to untick everything except Upload Community Subscriptions. Failure to do so may result in your Lemmy settings being changed.
  • Click the Upload tab. Then, enter your instance name and login details, click the upload button and upload the JSON file.
  • It'll automatically subscribe you to them all. If it looks like it's frozen, it hasn't. Just let it run. If you're on a small instance, you may need to re-run it a couple times (it can error if your instance hasn't discovered the community yet, this is solved on a rerun).

Of course, some may not be of interest or may overload your feed (meme communities can do this). Unsubscribe as needed.

I wrote this list for a curious person on the other site. It took me awhile, figured I'd share. Finding these places takes more time than I'd care to admit so... hopefully it saves you some, Lol. It's not an exhaustive list by any means, but is mostly places I find of interest and/or I think has good content. But there's definitely others out there I have missed (either intentionally or not). Lemmyverse is a great resource for finding new places.

My rough criterion was:

  • Of interest to me or a wide audience
  • Has a decent amount of activity, at least a single page worth of posts.
  • Casual / fun / interesting / cool / funny / chatty communities.
  • 0 negativity/negative vibes, news, politics, overload of tech or niche tech news/info, etc.
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm surprised this doesn't clobber your existing subscriptions - I assume LASIM is smart enough to add the 'followed' list to what is already 'followed' rather than replace it?

[–] CMahaff 16 points 1 year ago

LASIM author here - you are correct. I explicitly made it "additive" to avoid accidents where you could end up erasing a bunch of subscriptions. Right now LASIM only calls the subscribe API interface so it's actually impossible for it to unsubscribe you from anything.

I am considering adding a "destructive" sync in the future which, if toggled on, would unsubscribe you from anything not in the JSON file. But it's not implemented yet!

[–] Madbrad200 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Correct, though I'd be careful about adding such a list unless you're certain you won't mind all of these communities being added to your subscription list.

The meme communities can overload your feed for example. Just a thought. Figured I'd add it anyway, they can easily be removed from the json before using it though so there is that.

[–] CMahaff 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hadn't even considered this use case for LASIM, but that's really neat.

I've been thinking about a settings page where you can toggle what to sync, among a few other future features. I'll definitely add an option in the future to NOT sync the profile settings.

[–] Madbrad200 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah that would be great! Love the tool btw, I plug it whenever it's relevant

[–] CMahaff 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sneak peek :)

LASIM 0.1.3

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

This is the exact reason I follow this community. You are so awesome for putting in the work!

[–] Apex_Fail 17 points 1 year ago

CAN WE JUST AGREE ON ONE CFB SUB BEFORE THE SEASONS STARTS?!?!

Seriously, I need my toxic gameday threads.

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

There's a bunch more on Feddit.uk:

edit: trimmed down a bit

[–] Madbrad200 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Honestly I avoided even looking for music communities for this list. After gathering a list of British music communities elsewhere, I couldn't bare to look again, Lol, but the music ones you mentioned are on that list.

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[–] Nfntordr 12 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I automatically block political communities and also news (because it's mostly American shitfuckery) and I don't like seeing it, it makes me feel like shit. Thanks for posting up some great suggestions.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

There is big [email protected] community. Maybe add it too on rrredit it is 1mil+ subrredit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm in shock the apex, the non plus ultra, the creme, the queen of all communities movie and tv related isn't listed! Oh, the humanity!

[email protected]

You're welcome! 🤭

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[–] snowyday 10 points 1 year ago

Outstanding resource! Thanks for taking the time to assemble this!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you take suggestions for communities at all? I host some book related ones that are unrelated to those on there.

[–] Madbrad200 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Feel free to link them here :)

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[–] kratoz29 7 points 1 year ago

Amazing dude, this definitely helps the community!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is exactly what I've been looking for, hoping to find something other than memes/news.
Another pretty active one is:
[email protected]

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

This is awesome. I hope you guys don't mind, heres a link to one of the bigger pro-wrestling "subs" on the fediverse. It's on Kbin instead of Lemmy, but there's more than a few Lemmy users among us. Here's the link:

Squaredcircle

[–] Madbrad200 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'll add it!

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

lol Thanks :) Kbin, Lemmy, or Mastodon--it doesn't matter to me, as long as we're all working together to build something better than the last place.

[–] Okokimup 6 points 1 year ago

[email protected] could use more engagement

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

Not one of my communities made it 🥺

[–] Madbrad200 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just added a couple 😁

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Thank you beautiful human! ❤

[–] GatoB 6 points 1 year ago

I think these can be useful Tech support [email protected] Products recommendations [email protected] Software recommendations [email protected]

[–] ExtraMedicated 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have bugmenagerie, but you missed [email protected].

[–] Madbrad200 5 points 1 year ago

Added.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Various other crafty hobby type communities listed at https://lemmy.world/post/1715954 too, for anyone mostly interested in that category of thing.

[–] Crylos 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Under hobbies, I run a community on gemstone faceting that I'm trying to get some traction on, can you add this to your list?

[email protected]

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[–] charles 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[email protected] -- one of the bigger TV show communities on lemmy.world

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It would be awesome if this became a monthly pinned thread.

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

[email protected] would fit under hobbies.

I'm hoping in the future it can grow and expand to other communities like bioactive. It's one of the niche communities I miss from reddit.

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

This thread is exactly what I needed. Thanks!

[–] bemenaker 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a dad community like daddit was on Reddit?

[–] mysoulishome 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] bemenaker 3 points 1 year ago

Awesome, thanks, just joined

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

Cool! Thanks for adding [email protected]!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

TV and film:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is a great list. Note, though, that lemmyverse.net (and by extension, [email protected]) are less useful at the current moment than before because lemmyverse needs an update before it can crawl the increasing numbers of instances on 0.19.4 or above.

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

maybe that's blatant self-advertising, but you might want to have a look at my origami community I created a few weeks ago (and if it isn't something for you, others might find it interesting)... no drama, no politics, just simple paper folding, I promise :)

Here's the link: [email protected]

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