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
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      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
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        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.

  • kite@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My addition to this would be !lemmyapps@lemmy.world, 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.

    • TeaHands@lemmy.world
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      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 🤦‍♀️

  • soupspoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    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

  • SpamCamel@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    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.

  • Kinolee@kbin.social
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    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
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      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. Same url format, just a C instead of an R on lemmy, and M instead of an R on kbin.

      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/gaming@lemmy.world, I’ll see your gaming community. Same if you do lemmy.world/c/gaming you see yours, but lemmy.world/c/gaming@kbin.social you should see ours.

      If I got those URL’s right that is lol

      Both kbin and lemmy instances do also have other ways to get to other instances to sub, but the instructions I provided are based just on the url so it should work for anyone while ya get used to the UI and new platform and whatnot.