Lemmy411 - Don't know where to find what you're looking for?

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As with /r/411 this is where you ask what Community you're looking for but not finding. Perhaps a bit more helpful now that some communities are only found on certain instances.

Found/new community announcements - there are numerous "announcement type communities - see https://lemmy.ca/post/612532

There is also [email protected]

Before you request There are several resources available to find communities and resources and these have been pinned to the top.

there are community search engines at https://browse.feddit.de/ and https://lemmyverse.net/communities
there are numerous other "find a community" and "community announcement" .. communities (list stickied; if you find another, comment pls)
we will publish a Community Listing (at an as-of-yet-undetermined schedule)

Rules

Don't be a jerk or be deliberately unhelpful
Please post a clear easy to understand request for a community (or instance!)
Pls no NSFW requests - if you want to create /c/NSFW411 go ahead.
No posting of personal information
Please refrain from suggesting users should use search engines or directories.
No joke, troll or misleading suggestions or requests
No spam

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Find communities based on shared links and discussions you find interesting and engaging (kulli.sh)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I [posted this on [email protected] yesterday](https://lemmy.world/post/1080409?scrollToComments=true) and I thought it was worth sharing here too to help people looking for specific types of communities on the Lemmyverse:

I built this for myself some years ago and used it a lot to find many interesting niche subreddits. Today I expanded it to also help myself and others find interesting niche communities across the Lemmyverse!

There is a longer explanation here from an older article, but basically:

You give this a link that you found interesting
It will (try to) find everywhere it has been shared on the Lemmyverse (and other websites)
It will show you all comments from everywhere it's been shared on a single page
You can do all the regular stuff like filter, sort, isolate etc.

One thing I find myself doing very often is hitting "toggle sources" on the top banner; this shows me everywhere the link has been shared and commented on, and if I see a community I'm not familiar with, I'll isolate the comments from that source and have a look through to see if it's a community I'd like to engage with.

There are also browser extensions and an iOS shortcut available.

You can check out an example from a post that just hit "Hot" on lemmy.world here!

I hope this helps people find interesting, engaging and fulfilling communities in this next chapter of the internet! 🚀

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

If you want an idea of what the breadth of this kind of search can look like, check out the results for the article "How to Kill a Decentralised Network" which has been making the rounds recently.