Is there a way of finding popular communities across the federated lemmyverse? And on a smaller scale can I find popular communities on my instance?

Edit: leaving for posterity, but! there’s a “local” and an “all” in the communities browser: https://lemmy.world/communities/listing_type/All/page/1

There were the time-sucks like r/amitheasshole that I loved, but what I really miss is the practical every-day subs where people shared valuable information. I am really into vegetable gardening, mechanical keyboards, and a few other hobbies and it was great to go to those subs and ask questions or get information. Vegetable gardening was particularly helpful in the last month so I am really missing it! Also, I was really active in a sub for people with type 1 diabetes and that was a huge resource in my life. Really missing that one.

r/rimworld love the game, love the community, there is a community here on lemmy, but it only has 18 subs, so I'm afraid it won't be the same ):

Weird niche ones like r/SpecEvoJerking. Speculative evolution is already super niche and that's a parody sub about it.

several shitpost community, gamedev community like r/unrealengine r/cryengine, non-tech communities like r/limerence r/socialskills r/adhd, and probably some game community like r/kingdomcome, and more non-tech communities that are actively talk & shitpost about life, human, movie series, music band, youtube community, etc.

r/tumblr & r/curatedtumblr because they post some of the most interesting stuff from Tumblr instead of me searching for them by myself.

r/ThinkPad because they're my source of porn

r/AnarchyChess because en passant jokes are unironically funny to me somehow. I myself don't subscribed to AnarchyChess or playing chess myself lmaooo

r/spacedicks

The countless specific cat subreddits. The Gundam and gunpla communities. These can pop back up over here but it will take time for things to feel the same.

I visit /r/cars A LOT. I'm going to miss that one.

I suspect a new CARS community will pop up here pretty soon, though.

I'll miss niche subreddits for small communities that can't really be replicated anywhere else.

/AskAnAmerican - It's interesting to see what the rest of the world doesn't get about us.

r/castiron r/cremposting r/absoluteunits r/old_recipes all my favorite corners of the internet

CuratedTumblr and 196, if they fall apart. I know people there, it's tragic to think that it'll all disperse.

(This is Polenball if anyone was wondering)

Idiotsincars... but there are just *so many *idiots out there so I'm sure I'll find a replacement for it.

R/reddevils. We are trying to reform it here but it will take time

/r/nobuy, they are a very supportive community.

Another Plebbit refugee here. I liked r/RoleReversal and r/neverchangejapan. Honourable mention: r/piracy =)

Bikini bottom Twitter, games, steamdeck, dank memes.

These were my go to on Reddit.

That’s how these things work. Reddit took its time. I truly think that Lemmy will benefit from apps that make the experience accessible.

SquaredCircle and also r/thefighterandthekid. Homeless cats know

Handwriting. I hope to see it here, because i am not looking back! >

Let's create them here, this could be the beginning of something beautiful!! Btw, Lemmur or Jerboa like app for Lemmy? 🤔

Going to miss the ask reddit and all the outdoor subs what's this animal ,snake ,spider, and some have subs as well ___

The meme / shit post subs /wetlanderhumor /cremposting /shittydaystrom /aspiememes /tenagra /adhdmemes /dankchristianmemes /mathmemes

And then local subs, cause love me some local drama.

I'm definitely going to miss the true crime/unresolved mystery/paranormal subreddits. I loved the CreepyAskReddit curation.

A whole bunch of the ones around tabletop games. Mini painting, terrainbuilding, some of the game-specific subreddits that always have loads of userafe content.

If anyone has spotted these communities here in federation space please let me know; I didn't find any so far.

r/WhatIsThisThing, r/TipOfMyTongue, and similar subreddits. Some of the simplest and best examples of the power of crowdsourced knowledge. Take a simple question with a simple answer that is basically impossible to search through conventional means, but through the power of those communities you can get your answer in minutes. Simply amazing.

Lemmy is going to have to get huge before it can really replace them. :/

/woodworking folks posting about the stuffy the build out of wood.

r/mademesmile , wholesome but with more substance than just memes.

Really gonna miss the discussion threads for pretty much any (current-ish) tv show, always my go to after finishing an episode. Also asksciencefiction was a fun one.

r/aspiememes

r/greebles for sure! I got into their Discord though!

I participated quite a bit in r/whatsthisbug and r/spiders helping identify bugs (mostly spiders) for people. It was something I really liked doing, especially educating people about how spiders aren't things to worry about. Guess I'll just head back to iNaturalist for that content.

Other than that, more niche gaming communities were a big one for me. r/puzzleanddragons is a mobile game I play often and the sub was super helpful for news and game discussion/guides. I hope it can kick off here.

Cyberdeck & cassettefuturism

Jeopardy for daily show breakdowns

Local sports teams

A few gaming ones, but I suspect they're here somewhere too

Most of my favorites have a discord, but that just doesn't feel the same. Very hard to wade through all that chatter