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 [email protected], updated link

Macaroni_ninja,
@Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world avatar

Great list. Already subbed to most :)

whoisearth,

Why the duplicate communities? My understanding was it shouldn’t matter where I subscribe to “games” the posts should be the same.

yote_zip,
@yote_zip@pawb.social avatar

The posts are different on each server. They are effectively separate communities with separate names, counting the server as part of its name.

gelberhut,
@gelberhut@feddit.de avatar

There are different communities. You can subscribe any of them from any instance, but they are not the same.

Like [email protected] and [email protected] are different emails, and you can mail any of them using your email provider.

JackOfAllTraits,
@JackOfAllTraits@lemmy.world avatar

Thank you so much! I saved this post. 😁

CashmereWitch,

This is great! Thank you! I’ve been struggling with finding new communities, so this is super helpful.

patchw3rk,
@patchw3rk@kbin.social avatar

I would add the following:

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

hoodatninja,
@hoodatninja@kbin.social avatar

Eyyy we made the list!

patchw3rk,
@patchw3rk@kbin.social avatar

With Love,
Moderators of BestOf

hoodatninja,
@hoodatninja@kbin.social avatar

We’ll try to earn it haha

CupDock,

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

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

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.

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.

possum,

Ironically, the trouble you’re having with subscribing is because you’re on Kbin. On Lemmy you can just click the links in the post

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@kbin.social 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,
@EatALime@kbin.social avatar

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.

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,
@I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 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/[email protected]

Lemmy is having a lie down at this time.

GeekFTW,
@GeekFTW@kbin.social avatar

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/[email protected], I'll see your gaming community. Same if you do lemmy.world/c/gaming you see yours, but lemmy.world/c/[email protected] you should see ours.

If I got those URL's right that is lol

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/[email protected] 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?

r00ty,
@r00ty@kbin.life avatar

I posted an answer above to the same question.

In case you cannot see it:

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.

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)

kite,

My addition to this would be !lemmyapps, 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.

Hanabie,
@Hanabie@kbin.social avatar

You forgot
!japanese_metal :)

Zeyfert162,

Super helpful post. Thank you!

kyrbi,

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

TeaHands,
@TeaHands@lemmy.world avatar

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 🤦‍♀️

r00ty,
@r00ty@kbin.life avatar

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.

barthol5280,

I’ve been sitting at “pending” for a couple days on some of them. Maybe there’s just one or two mods that approve adds a couple times a week?

TeaHands,
@TeaHands@lemmy.world avatar

Nah the pending thing is a known issue. It’s essentially a visual bug and you are subscribed and will see those communities in your feed, but the UI doesn’t update for whatever reason. Seen some reports that you can fix it by repeatedly unsubbing and trying again, but it shouldn’t affect the actual functioning.

(fun fact there is no such thing as “approving” community members even though that’s what this totally looks like it is!)

GataZapata,

Comment as bookmark

nieceandtows,

You can click on the star button to save it.

simple,
@simple@lemmy.world avatar

They’re from Kbin, there is no save on that website.

nieceandtows,

huh, didn’t know that

levetamae,

Can I save or bookmark this?

talos,
@talos@lemmy.world avatar

There is a save button, looks like a star (on the desktop Lemmy).

TheDarkKnight,

On lemmy.world there is a communities page that lists all the popular and trending communities on local to lemmy.world and all of the fediverse where you can subscribe to a bunch without leaving the list page.

Bebo,

I am using “connect for lemmy” app. Can someone please explain how to join communities? Just signed up and very confused.

XtendedImpact,

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

Bebo,

Hey thanks!

Mintyy,

I’ve used connect for a while now and while I’m pretty happy with it for browsing, I’m not in love with how difficult it is to join communities. Especially when you want to join a bunch of communities if your account is new.

I found it way easier to join a bunch of communities in Chrome (which is made a lot easier on the actual lemmy website) and then coming back to connect to browse.

It’s less of an issue if you just wanna join the odd community, but if you are looking to add a bunch I wouldn’t bother trying to do so through connect.

randomwither,

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!

Bebo,

Definitely a learning curve. At least sort of figured out finally how to join communities. What’s sort of confusing for me now is communities with same names but different instances (is that the right word?). Then I have check back to see whether I have joined it or is it a different one. This part is super confusing for me at present because I came across many such instances.

Bonzo,
@Bonzo@lemmy.world avatar

Anything for e-bikes or e-bike building?

_haha_oh_wow_,
@_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works avatar

!micromobility

chumbalumber,

Let me know if you find something!

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