List of popular communities you should visit!

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 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

Kinolee,

I still don't understand how to subscribe to groups that aren't on my instance. I sometimes was able to get it to work on my PC but it's impossible on mobile. This platform needs a lot of work.

FinalBoy1975,

You aren't alone. I'm still trying to figure it out, too. First step was to settle on my go-to instance, which just today I've decided will be kbin.

Kinolee,

I picked kbin too. It seems like the most complete platform, and is more easy to navigate than lemmy... but that's kind of a low bar. I'm still very lost.

failuer,

Ok - I just figured it out but it was not intuitive. This is for kbin.social. Unsure of the differences to Lemmy.

You have to go to search, then click magazines. This link should take you right there:

https://kbin.social/magazines

Then search for what you want eg newcommunities.

That should show local communities as well as ones that are federated.

It wasn’t apparent on mobile but apparently there’s a subscribe button on the search results on the right side.

If you click on the community you can still subscribe but clicking the side bar on the left. There’s a subscribe button if you scroll down a bit.

MxM111,
MxM111 avatar

On PC, if you are browsing any magazine (local or not) you can clearly see the subscribe(and block) button on the right. I usually go to the magazine of interest when I read interesting post.

EatALime,
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On mobile you can click the menu button in the upper left corner to get to the thread and magazine info of your current page to follow that thread or subscribe to the magazine it was posted to. It's quicker than scrolling all the way to the bottom of the page.

50gp,

whats weird is that you can hover over all username links and get all the useful buttons like follow/block but this isnt extended to communities, have to manually go there (while inside your home instance)

like, why?

ZickZack,

I can just go to the search tab and look for the magazine (e.g. Search for retro gaming) and find an the other instances.
I think s fair number of people forget to switch the search to magazines before looking (or are actually subscribing to other instances but don't notice it)

phosphorik,

And the communities in the list aren’t clickable. Pretty low hanging fruit for reducing friction. (Like, the platform should automatically link them, not that OP should have.)

Kinolee,

I 100% agree. I should just be able to click a link to go to a community, and then there should be a simple way to subscribe when I get there. Like... that functionality may not be "basic" to program, but it is a basic necessity for ease of use and growth...

I_Miss_Daniel, (edited )
I_Miss_Daniel avatar

I'm on kbin.

What happens if I just type

!NoStupidQuestions

It gives a 404

How about if I change the ! to a @

@NoStupidQuestions

This one works, but you don't see from the link text that it's a link to Lemmy's community instead of kbin's magazine.

(I wrote the whole address but it gets converted to the link you see above,which works but you have to scroll ⅔ of the way down to find subscribe.)

What if I just write @NoStupidQuestions ?

This one looks the same, but it links to kbin's magazine of the same name but different content. A bit confusing.

....

What if I create a URL using the kbin link thing above the text box

Link

This seems to work. Edit: no it doesn't. I just linked back to this post somehow. Try again with a different notation...

Link

Nope.

Now to try this comment on Lemmy...

Can't find this post on Lemmy - had to get there via https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse@kbin.social

Lemmy is having a lie down at this time.

radium,

None of these links work for me at all.... Android user with the chrome app installed

I_Miss_Daniel,
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Even if you long press, open in Chrome?

I_Miss_Daniel, (edited )
I_Miss_Daniel avatar

Kbin compatible links to these Lemmy communities...

Edit 3: Android PWA users, please try long press on the link and choose 'open in Chrome' - then they seem to work.

If you're on mobile, scroll down about ¾ of the page to find the subscribe link.

General Discussion

@NoStupidQuestions
@AskLemmy
@YouShouldKnow
@Fediverse
@general
@showerthoughts
@UKCasual
@casualconversation

##&Memes
@LemmyShitpost
@memes
@me_irl
@dadjokes
@trippinthroughtime
@humor
@linuxmemes
@programmerhumor
@starwarsmemes

##
@technology
@technology
@privacyguides
@privacy
@linux
@singularity
@android
@technews

NOTE:Thisoneisabotcommunityforwardingtechnews.Notfordiscussion,butit’susefultobrowse.

##&Videos
@pics
@videos
@aww
@internetfuneral
@AnimalsWithJobs
@YoutubeHaiku

##&TV
@moviesandtv
@movies
@television

##
@games
@games
@pcmasterrace
@linux_gaming
@patientgamers
@ps5
@retrogaming
@nintendo

History:
~~Edit 1: getting comments that they're not working for other kbin users. I had the same at first, then they worked. I can't really figure this out... (I'm using the kbin PWA on Android.) ~~

~~Edit 2: they broke for me as well when I went to my profile and opened this comment. I'll probably nuke this post soon to avoid confusing people. ~~

GlyphOfAdBlocking,
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I appreciate the effort, but they all come up 404 for me.

Using PWA on Android...Not sure if that matters.

I_Miss_Daniel,
I_Miss_Daniel avatar

Please try again, using a long press and choose open in Chrome. Seems to be a bug with the PWA itself.

GlyphOfAdBlocking,
GlyphOfAdBlocking avatar

Yep, that works!

puddlebongthemars515,

Getting a 404 on all of them

I_Miss_Daniel,
I_Miss_Daniel avatar

Please try again, using a long press and choose open in Chrome. Seems to be a bug with the PWA itself.

Kinolee,

I'm on a PC at work (forced to use Edge... lol) and getting a 404 on all of these. :/

GeekFTW,
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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. Same url format, just a C instead of an R on lemmy, and M instead of an R on kbin.

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

Both kbin and lemmy instances do also have other ways to get to other instances to sub, but the instructions I provided are based just on the url so it should work for anyone while ya get used to the UI and new platform and whatnot.

epsilonneighbor,

Exact info I’ve been hoping to find, thorough and concise - thank you!

Kinolee,

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 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 was going to be the default memes community? Won't there be other communities that pop up at !memes and !memes etc? It seems like chaos to me. How do I know which one is the right one?

patchw3rk, (edited )
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I would add the following:

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

hoodatninja,
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Eyyy we made the list!

patchw3rk,
patchw3rk avatar

With Love,
Moderators of BestOf

hoodatninja,
hoodatninja avatar

We’ll try to earn it haha

simple,
@simple@lemmy.world avatar

These are pretty good, but I decided not to add kbin communities to the post for now. Kbin still has issues with federation so posts and comments coming from there often end up missing on Lemmy and vice-versa. Hopefully things will get fixed soon enough, and when they do I’ll check out all the kbin communities I’ve been missing out on.

Kinolee,

My understanding with this was that lemmy was actively blocking kbin content. I don't think it's kbin's fault, and lemmy/ml is being shady.

CupDock,

Fixing the links for us lemmy users (I think? Still getting used to this myself)

!BestOf
!newcommunities
!truegaming
!fediverse
!askkbin
!RedditMigration

Bassiette,

PS5 community is dead any alternatives??

abnormal_258,

thx for the list

Venutianxspring,

Come check out !spaceporn for all of your awe-inspiring space photos.

Rhabuko,

Don't miss out on:

WhiteHotaru,

!Ich_iel is missing

DonjonMaester,

Thanks for this!

WololoWarrior,

Omg, my instance got featured in this! I’m so happy 😁

will,

Which one is that? 😊

WololoWarrior,

Tripping through time in lemmy.ca

ryphez,

Thanks for the list!

Tygr,

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

SimplyChad,
@SimplyChad@lemmy.world avatar

Saving for later. Thanks!

soupspoon,

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,

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.

mrzip,

I’m getting the same. It’s all pending.

nergal,

Really appreciate the list!

Wayren,

Thank you so much for this list! Super helpful.

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