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 !newcommunities@lemmy.world to see people showing off their new communities.

Edit: Removed spaces from links, added xbox to games section

Edit 2: android community moved to android@lemdro.id, updated link

    • n_emoo@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Azzu@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • DrQuint@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          People posted saying they’d support the protest, so the mods locked down. Then they made a poll and the comments were almost exclusively against while the votes were split, so calls of manipulation and astroturfing were rampant because people couldn’t actually believe there were people in favor of the protest.

          I would agree that they didn’t care either way, and tried going with the flow. The mods basically acted, ah… What’s the word… Something like “pussy-whipped” but with Reddit users as the instigator? The “comments” made demands and they acquiesced every time then acted confused that there was no consistency with those comments and lots of anger then aimed at them. Which honestly, probably matches up with what they do day-to-day. I appreciate the esports match discussion and summary threads, but overall, the actual acts of moderation is extremely hands off and lenient towards things like xenophobia and whatnot. I wonder what actually happens in that subreddit’s mod queue and if half those people are even around. Outside of 3 people, their presence has taken a nosedive since the days ReaverXai was around.

          It was not the time to be so hands-off. It was not the time to tell people “oh just go on the pepe-emoji infested discord that not even us ourselves have used in 7 years, it’ll be fine”. It was the time to take a stance one way or another, the time to investigate alternatives and list them on the frontpage. The time to restrict the sub and filter comments from newer acoounts, or the time to stay open and declare you don’t think the cause will work. Something. Anything.

          • Azzu@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Yeah idk, there is of course a nice sentiment to do what the community wants, but it really looked like the mods had no opinion at all.

            I really wonder what kind of mindset is behind there. I have multiple theories but nothing definite.

  • soupspoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Have you successfully subscribed to any lemmy.ml communities or moviesandtv@lemmy.film? Mine still show as pending after a couple of weeks

    • jake_eric@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Pending is the same as subscribed, at least functionally. You’ll still get the posts in your subscribed feed. I think it’s just a visual thing.

  • TwoFace211@feddit.chEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Thank you. Need more of this. I’ve been searching for something like this for a while.

  • ugh@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

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

  • Azzu@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year 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.

    • TeaHands@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year 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 🤦‍♀️

  • kite@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    My addition to this would be !lemmyapps@lemmy.world, 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.