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.

Note: if you wish to auto-subscribe to all of the communities below, I have a post in the comments that describes how to do so.

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
    • Crosswords / Daily games
    • 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.

Chess
Crosswords / Daily games
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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  • Andrew@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    This is a great list. Note, though, that lemmyverse.net (and by extension, [email protected]) are less useful at the current moment than before because lemmyverse needs an update before it can crawl the increasing numbers of instances on 0.19.4 or above.

  • Sunny' 🌻@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    5 months ago

    There is also: [email protected], for those interested in all sharing their experiences and findings when going foraging. Feel free to join now that the foraging season is starting again! 🍄🫐🌰

    Also, thanks for sharing this list, added a bunch I was interested in 🙌

  • rocker@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

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

  • Madbrad200@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    Bonus: don’t have time and want to just auto-subscribe to all (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 (download the relevant .zip file)
    • Unzip folder, run file. Lemmy Migration Tool will now be open, like in this pic.
    • Note: in the Settings tab, you may wish to untick everything except Upload Community Subscriptions. Failure to do so may result in your Lemmy settings being changed.
    • Click the Upload tab. Then, enter your instance name and login details, click the upload button and upload the JSON file.
    • 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).

    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.
    • CMahaff@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      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.

    • freamon@endlesstalk.orgEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      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?

      • CMahaff@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        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!

  • nfntordr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    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.