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
- !NoStupidQuestions@lemmy.world
- !AskLemmy@lemmy.ml
- !YouShouldKnow@lemmy.world
- !Fediverse@lemmy.world
- !general@lemmy.world
- !showerthoughts@lemmy.world
- !UKCasual@lemmy.world
- !casualconversation@lemmy.world
Humor & Memes
- !LemmyShitpost@lemmy.world
- !memes@lemmy.ml
- !me_irl@lemmy.ml
- !dadjokes@lemmy.world
- !trippinthroughtime@lemmy.ca
- !humor@lemmy.world
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world
- !programmerhumor@programming.dev
- !starwarsmemes@lemmy.world
Technology
- !technology@lemmy.world
- !technology@lemmy.ml
- !privacyguides@lemmy.one
- !privacy@lemmy.ml
- !linux@lemmy.ml
- !singularity@lemmy.fmhy.ml
- !android@lemdro.id
- !technews@radiation.party NOTE: This one is a bot community forwarding tech news. Not for discussion, but it’s useful to browse.
Pictures & Videos
- !pics@lemmy.world
- !videos@lemmy.world
- !aww@lemmy.world
- !internetfuneral@lemmy.world
- !AnimalsWithJobs@lemmy.world
- !YoutubeHaiku@lemmy.world
Movies & TV
Video Games
- !games@sh.itjust.works
- !games@lemmy.world
- !pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
- !linux_gaming@lemmy.world
- !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
- !retrogaming@lemmy.world
- !ps5@lemmy.ml
- !xbox@lemmy.world
- !nintendo@lemmy.world
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
So I’m on Kbin.social right now. Let’s say I wanna view our gaming community. like how Reddit has:
Reddit.com/r/Subredditname
I would go to:
kbin.social/m/magazinename
You on lemmy.world would go to:
lemmy.world/c/communityname
Super simple so far I hope lol.
Now whichever one is applicable to you (and if you’re on other instances, sub in the url where appropriate.
Let’s say I on kbin wanna see your gaming community. If I did kbin.social/m/gaming, I would get mine. The url though can act like how an email address does, by adding a domain to the end of it. So if I did kbin.social/m/gaming@lemmy.world, I’ll see your gaming community. Same if you do lemmy.world/c/gaming you see yours, but lemmy.world/c/gaming@kbin.social you should see ours.
If I got those URL’s right that is lol
Exact info I’ve been hoping to find, thorough and concise - thank you!
This was helpful, and I understand it now, thanks! It’s just SO clunky though to have to use a different URL to get to the same place depending on what instance you’re a member of. I don’t understand what the benefit of all this added complication is. I feel like good programming should make it so that when I type !community@whatever.yay, whatever instance I’m in should just automatically link me to their version of the URL. Like kbin should know that that needs to go to kbin.social/m/community@whatever.yay without me having to change anything.
And in the meantime… we’re going to have different communities for each instance because of how confusing this all is. Who decided that !memes@lemmy.ml was going to be the default memes community? Won’t there be other communities that pop up at !memes@kbin.social and !memes@lemmy.world etc? It seems like chaos to me. How do I know which one is the right one?