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 [email protected] 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

    • n_emoo@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      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
        13·
        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.

  • SpamCamel@lemm.eeEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    btw the spaces in the links provided by OP effectively break the links if you’re not based on the community’s home server. Would be really great to get this updated.

      • ugh@lemm.eeEnglish
        01·
        1 year ago

        That’s because they’re on your home instance. They don’t work for me because those communities don’t exist on my home instance.

    • jennwiththesea@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think it’s an app issue, not dependent on which instance you’re on. I’m on world and clicked through to a couple shit just works links just fine. I’m using Liftoff on Android.

  • ugh@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

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

    • TeaHands@lemmy.world
      12·
      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 🤦‍♀️

    • t0fr@lemmy.ca
      5·
      1 year ago

      These are links with an “!” at the beginning. You should be able to copy and paste that into the search bar on your instance to search for it. The “!” will force your instance to search for it in other instances I’d no other users in your community have subscribed. If you click the link from your search results, you’ll access the community from your instance and then you’ll be able to subscribe in the sidebar.

      If for whatever reason the subscribe button is not working, and you click the button to create a post and just return to the previous page. It’s a known bug that depends on the version number of the instance.

    • r00ty@kbin.life
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • LessQuit@feddit.nu
      46·
      1 year ago

      Works exactly like Reddit. Open the community of interest and press the subscribe button lol

  • freamon@feddit.nlEnglish
    101·
    1 year ago

    I can’t claim to understand this tech yet, but I feel like so many of these communities being on the same instance isn’t the way it’s supposed to be.

  • Azzu@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    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.

  • Random_user@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I’m using connect and my home instance is lemmy.world. 2 questions: why don’t the majority of these links work and what do the exclamation points (!) mean?

    • simple@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      The ! is shorthand for linking to other communities, it provides an autocomplete link for referencing communities.

      The links work on the website and Liftoff app so I guess Connect still hasn’t been updated to work well with these links yet. These apps are all new so some bugs should be expected.

    • CadillacCalves@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      There appearsto be an extra space in the link before the " )". I’m also using Connect. Hopefully OP can address that.

    • jennwiththesea@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      If the links don’t work, you can just search for the communities through your app’s search feature, or on the website itself.

    • 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.