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
Why the duplicate communities? My understanding was it shouldn't matter where I subscribe to "games" the posts should be the same.
The posts are different on each server. They are effectively separate communities with separate names, counting the server as part of its name.
There are different communities. You can subscribe any of them from any instance, but they are not the same.
Like john@gmail.com and john@outlook.com are different emails, and you can mail any of them using your email provider.
Which is stupid imho. I don't want to sub to 10 different /c/movies or even 2 different /c/nba. Mark my words you're going to see a consolidation here if this takes off and you're going to lose the federation appeal that people want (I couldn't care less just want a Reddit alternative). Already I've unsubbed from communities to simply sub to the biggest one.
Let's also ignore there's an open issue from 2 years ago because no one apparently thought or cared of the scenario that some of us actually like a unified identity online and yet you can't port your account across the fediverse.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1985
If it is so important for you to be so much outraged, I guess it is time for you to either learn to code and open a PR, or to pay someone to do it for you!
I know how to code don't have the time. It's potential I may look into it. Doesn't change the fact that it's two glaring issues that weren't thought through and there's many more that have been brought up.
I find it helps to think the name of a community includes the originating server name