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

  • Kinolee@kbin.social
    21·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • GeekFTW@kbin.social
      12·
      1 year ago

      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

      • Kinolee@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

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

    • FinalBoy1975@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Azzu@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        It seems to be harder to subscribe to Lemmy communities from kbin.

      • Kinolee@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        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@lemmy.ml
          4·
          1 year ago

          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@kbin.social
        0·
        1 year ago

        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@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          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@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            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.

    • ZickZack@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      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)

    • Azzu@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      It seems to be harder to subscribe to Lemmy communities from kbin.

    • r00ty@kbin.life
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • phosphorik@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      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@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        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@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          I’m on kbin.

          What happens if I just type

          [email protected]

          It gives a 404

          How about if I change the ! to a @

          @NoStupidQuestions

          (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 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…

        • thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee
          2·
          1 year ago

          Fyi this is exactly how it works on Lemmy’s side, and tbh it’s usually how links work when they get pulled through to Kbin too, but something about this post has given Kbin an issue and it’s stripped out the clickable links which is why it’s super confusing for you lot over there!

      • Azzu@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        The communities in the list are all clickable from Lemmy. You’re just from kbin and that site doesn’t have that.

      • thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        The user you’re responding to is on Kbin, which is stripping the links out of this post for some reason. They literally can’t click through, that’s why people are confused.