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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

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] 32 points 2 years ago (4 children)

List of unpopular communities you should visit:

I'm so alone 😭

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sadly the r/dota2 community doesnt seem to have migrated that much. Which is a shame because everyone from pro players to valve use it as an official means to communicate.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

From the way the mods of that subreddit behaved, it was pretty clear that they didn't care at all about the protests. They made a poll and ignored the like 60% that wanted the protest to continue.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

btw the spaces in the links provided by OP effectively break the links if you're not based on the community's home server. Would be really great to get this updated.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Can anyone help me how to subscribe to these communities? Thank you

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If you're logged in on the website, those links should "just work" and the subscribe button is in the sidebar. Mobile website also works really well although you have to expand the sidebar to see the button.

If you're using one of the many different mobile apps you'll have to let us know which one because they all seem to work completely differently at the moment!

Edit: Just realised you're on Kbin and it looks like Kbin is stripping the link formatting out of the post for some weird reason, that's why you can't click them πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

These are links with an "!" at the beginning. You should be able to copy and paste that into the search bar on your instance to search for it. The "!" will force your instance to search for it in other instances I'd no other users in your community have subscribed. If you click the link from your search results, you'll access the community from your instance and then you'll be able to subscribe in the sidebar.

If for whatever reason the subscribe button is not working, and you click the button to create a post and just return to the previous page. It's a known bug that depends on the version number of the instance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

You're on a kbin instance, and it is the main one so most of them are probably already there. If any of them is not, just click the search button at the top of the screen and enter the name you see above without the ! and without the space before the @. e.g. "[email protected]", your instance will then look it up and subscribe you to it if found.

It might take a while for threads to begin to appear if it wasn't already there though.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

I would add the following:

!BestOf @kbin.social
!newcommunities @lemmy.world
!truegaming @kbin.social
!fediverse @kbin.social
!askkbin @kbin.social
!RedditMigration @kbin.social

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Could you remove the spaces for people who aren't browsing from .world?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Anything for e-bikes or e-bike building?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can't claim to understand this tech yet, but I feel like so many of these communities being on the same instance isn't the way it's supposed to be.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Thank you so much! I saved this post. 😁

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Btw I made this userscript (Lemmy post) for anyone who's as annoyed of links not going to their home instance as I was! It rewrites all links on all websites to always point to your home instance.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years 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!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Have you successfully subscribed to any lemmy.ml communities or [email protected]? Mine still show as pending after a couple of weeks

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks!

Can anyone let me know if there is a way to book mark a post? Am using the connect app. Thanks!

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

To save a post, you need to tap the bookmark icon next to the downvote arrow. Comments can also be saved by swiping them to the left until you see the bookmark icon.

To view your saved posts, open the navigation drawer (hamburger menu) on Connect and tap on Saved, which is just below Profile.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Thanks, right there in front of my face the whole time!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don’t know how to save so I’m going to comment a dot here like the old days

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

My addition to this would be [email protected], for a good list of apps you can try out. Note that while it says apps, this also covers browser extensions and PC web apps.

...also note I have never linked before, so I have no idea how that is going to turn out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

This was extremely helpful. Perhaps this can be posted up for new users looking for β€œdefault” communities

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Saving for later. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Took me a while to get through this but I loved it!

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

Come check out [email protected] for all of your awe-inspiring space photos.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Quick plug for [email protected]

Pretty established at this point and getting more posts every day.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Should add the Xbox community to the gaming section.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I need a pro-wrestling community that’s active STAT

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