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The rules may be more established as time goes on, but it's important to have a foundation to work on.

1. Follow the rules of Lemmy.world - These rules are the same as Mastodon.world's rules, which can be found here.

2. Include a community title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.

Formatting

Please include this following format in your post:

[link text](/c/[email protected])

This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't

You should also include either:

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A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics) (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Searching Lemmyverse is good for finding communities. [email protected] is also a nice tool for finding new places.

I posted this on the other site but I thought I'd copy over here too, lots of good communities around to subscribe to if you want a more casual/fun frontpage that isn't just tech news, elon musk, or politics.

note: all of these communities have posts. If they appear empty, it simply means nobody on the instance you use has visited them before (or you might have blocked them and forgot, I've done it before, lol)! I will try to keep this thread updated over time.

My rough criterion was:

  • Of interest to me or a wide audience
  • Has a decent amount of activity
  • Casual / fun / interesting / cool / funny / chatty communities.
  • 0 negativity/negative vibes, news, politics, overload of tech or niche tech news/info, etc.

Directory

  • Conversation Communities - for chatty places
    • "ask" based
    • Casual chat / Misc
  • Hobbies, Creative, Passions
    • Misc
    • Artwork
    • Cooking, food, drinks
    • Gardening / Plants
    • Keyboard enthusiasts
    • Knitting, stitching, crocheting, etc
    • Reading and writing
  • Nice/Interesting/Funny pictures
    • Animals
    • Comics
    • Flags
    • Maps
    • Memes
    • Misc
    • Photography
    • Wallpapers
  • Games
    • Board games / Table top games
    • Chess
    • Video games
  • Knowledge (e.g history, science, etc)
  • Space
  • TV (television, movies, film)
  • Music

Conversation communities

These are places that are 'chatty', good if you want a lot of comments.

"ask" based
Casual chat / Misc

Hobbies, Creative, Passions

Misc
Artwork

(see also the list under the Wallpapers header)

Cooking, food, drinks

Generally mostly nice pics of food:

Gardening / Plants
Keyboard enthusiasts
Knitting, Stitching, Crocheting, etc
Reading and Writing
Sport

Honestly there are so many sport communities around - if you search Lemmyverse for popular sports, you will almost certainly find more.

Nice/Interesting/Funny pictures

Animals

Literally just pictures of cute animals.

Comics
Flags
Maps
Memes

Meme communities in general can overload your feed, so keep that in mind.

Misc
Photography
Wallpapers

Games

Board Games / Table top games

The ttrpg.network instance has a lot of communities based around table top gaming & RPGs.

note: the battlemaps communities seem to mostly cross-post between eachother at the moment.

Chess
Video Games

Knowledge (e.g history, science)

Space

TV (television), movies, film

Music

Lots of music communities on Lemmy. Search Lemmyverse for genres of interest for more, this definitely isn't exhaustive.

Note that music communities generally have low comment counts, from my experience.

There's also:

Previous

These communities have been removed from the list for not maintaining activity.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Bonus: don't have time and want to just auto-subscribe to all* (mostly, I forgot to add some I think) of these communities (please note this isn't reversible without manually unsubbing yourself, there's a lot of niche communities here that may not appeal to you - you can remove them from the JSON file if needed)?

  • On PC, download this JSON file.
  • On PC, download Lemmy Migration Tool
  • Enter instance name and login details, upload JSON.
  • It'll automatically subscribe you to them all. If it looks like it's frozen, it hasn't. Just let it run. If you're on a small instance, you may need to re-run it a couple times (it can error if your instance hasn't discovered the community yet, this is solved on a rerun).
  • Note: this will change your lemmy settings (e.g disable NSFW). No way around this, change back if needed.

Of course, some may not be of interest or may overload your feed (meme communities can do this). Unsubscribe as needed.

I wrote this list for a curious person on the other site. It took me awhile, figured I'd share. Finding these places takes more time than I'd care to admit so... hopefully it saves you some, Lol. It's not an exhaustive list by any means, but is mostly places I find of interest and/or I think has good content. But there's definitely others out there I have missed (either intentionally or not). Lemmyverse is a great resource for finding new places.

My rough criterion was:

  • Of interest to me or a wide audience
  • Has a decent amount of activity, at least a single page worth of posts.
  • Casual / fun / interesting / cool / funny / chatty communities.
  • 0 negativity/negative vibes, news, politics, overload of tech or niche tech news/info, etc.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For anyone finding this in the future:

The latest version of LASIM (0.2.1) has a Settings tab that allows you to choose what you want to upload.

If you are using the JSON file posted above, you'd want to choose just "Upload Community Subscriptions" on this tab so that your profile settings, etc. are not changed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm surprised this doesn't clobber your existing subscriptions - I assume LASIM is smart enough to add the 'followed' list to what is already 'followed' rather than replace it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

LASIM author here - you are correct. I explicitly made it "additive" to avoid accidents where you could end up erasing a bunch of subscriptions. Right now LASIM only calls the subscribe API interface so it's actually impossible for it to unsubscribe you from anything.

I am considering adding a "destructive" sync in the future which, if toggled on, would unsubscribe you from anything not in the JSON file. But it's not implemented yet!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Correct, though I'd be careful about adding such a list unless you're certain you won't mind all of these communities being added to your subscription list.

The meme communities can overload your feed for example. Just a thought. Figured I'd add it anyway, they can easily be removed from the json before using it though so there is that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hadn't even considered this use case for LASIM, but that's really neat.

I've been thinking about a settings page where you can toggle what to sync, among a few other future features. I'll definitely add an option in the future to NOT sync the profile settings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah that would be great! Love the tool btw, I plug it whenever it's relevant

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sneak peek :)

LASIM 0.1.3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is now released :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It would be awesome if this became a monthly pinned thread.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This thread is exactly what I needed. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is the exact reason I follow this community. You are so awesome for putting in the work!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

maybe that's blatant self-advertising, but you might want to have a look at my origami community I created a few weeks ago (and if it isn't something for you, others might find it interesting)... no drama, no politics, just simple paper folding, I promise :)

Here's the link: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Cool! Thanks for adding [email protected]!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Great list. Thanks for putting it together! Will definitely sub to a bunch here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is a great list of communities! Nice to see that [email protected] made it on here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's a bunch more on Feddit.uk:

edit: trimmed down a bit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Honestly I avoided even looking for music communities for this list. After gathering a list of British music communities elsewhere, I couldn't bare to look again, Lol, but the music ones you mentioned are on that list.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah yes that's right - it's a great list, so much so I shared it to UK Music and we had a chat about festivals. Keep up the good work. 👍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Absolutely outstanding contribution! Thank-you so much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

CAN WE JUST AGREE ON ONE CFB SUB BEFORE THE SEASONS STARTS?!?!

Seriously, I need my toxic gameday threads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty much all communities on beehaw are active enough

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They're still defederated from lemmy.world unfortunately, so 🤷‍♂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

[email protected] could use more engagement

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I automatically block political communities and also news (because it's mostly American shitfuckery) and I don't like seeing it, it makes me feel like shit. Thanks for posting up some great suggestions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Amazing list, thanks for sharing it! Don't suppose you could add [email protected]? Would love to get some more activity over there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You have bugmenagerie, but you missed [email protected].

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Also memes: [email protected]

Reading/writing: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm in shock the apex, the non plus ultra, the creme, the queen of all communities movie and tv related isn't listed! Oh, the humanity!

[email protected]

You're welcome! 🤭

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is awesome. I hope you guys don't mind, heres a link to one of the bigger pro-wrestling "subs" on the fediverse. It's on Kbin instead of Lemmy, but there's more than a few Lemmy users among us. Here's the link:

Squaredcircle

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not one of my communities made it 🥺

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Super helpful and really well organized—thanks a bunch!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I'm wondering where the NSFW is at!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Got anything for DIY, plumbing/carpentry etc... please?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Various other crafty hobby type communities listed at https://lemmy.world/post/1715954 too, for anyone mostly interested in that category of thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is exactly what I've been looking for, hoping to find something other than memes/news.
Another pretty active one is:
[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's also [email protected] and [email protected] on an instance I host if anyone is interested in those niches. But all in all this is a super amazing list thanks for taking the time to put it together!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oooh thank you I love the spiritual quotes!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Awesome! No problem!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's also plantclinic but I don't know how to type the whole address!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

[email protected] would fit under hobbies.

I'm hoping in the future it can grow and expand to other communities like bioactive. It's one of the niche communities I miss from reddit.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I really really hate the polarised politics, Elon Musk hatred and web integrity thing that gets showered here day in and day out. Honestly I'm tired of blocking the communities and users of that type

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