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@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

    • n_emoo@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      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
        3·
        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.

        • DrQuint@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          People posted saying they’d support the protest, so the mods locked down. Then they made a poll and the comments were almost exclusively against while the votes were split, so calls of manipulation and astroturfing were rampant because people couldn’t actually believe there were people in favor of the protest.

          I would agree that they didn’t care either way, and tried going with the flow. The mods basically acted, ah… What’s the word… Something like “pussy-whipped” but with Reddit users as the instigator? The “comments” made demands and they acquiesced every time then acted confused that there was no consistency with those comments and lots of anger then aimed at them. Which honestly, probably matches up with what they do day-to-day. I appreciate the esports match discussion and summary threads, but overall, the actual acts of moderation is extremely hands off and lenient towards things like xenophobia and whatnot. I wonder what actually happens in that subreddit’s mod queue and if half those people are even around. Outside of 3 people, their presence has taken a nosedive since the days ReaverXai was around.

          It was not the time to be so hands-off. It was not the time to tell people “oh just go on the pepe-emoji infested discord that not even us ourselves have used in 7 years, it’ll be fine”. It was the time to take a stance one way or another, the time to investigate alternatives and list them on the frontpage. The time to restrict the sub and filter comments from newer acoounts, or the time to stay open and declare you don’t think the cause will work. Something. Anything.

          • Azzu@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Yeah idk, there is of course a nice sentiment to do what the community wants, but it really looked like the mods had no opinion at all.

            I really wonder what kind of mindset is behind there. I have multiple theories but nothing definite.

  • ugh@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

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

  • soupspoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    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@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.

  • SpamCamel@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    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.

    • 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
        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.

    • simple@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      7·
      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
      6·
      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.