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A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics) (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Madbrad200@lemmy.world to c/communitypromo@lemmy.ca
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2216085

Searching Lemmyverse is good for finding communities. !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl 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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[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

My personal shortlist

And then a few specific

[-] schwim@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

It's a nifty list. I've not found a decent mini pc community yet but hope to someday.

[-] Madbrad200@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Thought I'd repost this over here too, seems relevant.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

How can I sub to all of these collectively?

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago

Lots of clicks I'm afraid

[-] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Not necessarily :) see my reply

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago

Nice!

[-] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 2 points 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.

[-] small44@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Hopefully this will revive some cummunities

[-] Elevator7009@kbin.run 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You might want to throw @bunnies@lemmy.world and @snakes@lemmy.world on there too. Also @incremental_games@incremental.social

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 5 points 4 months ago
[-] Elevator7009@kbin.run 2 points 4 months ago

I'll never remember the difference between !communityName@instance and @communityName@instance. When I go to view the community name and rules, at least on Kbin/Mbin I see it listing itself as @communityName@instance. I think I had a similar issue awhile back

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 3 points 4 months ago

To be honest it might be platform specific

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

I can also recommend the following communities:
!youshouldknow@lemmy.world
!coolguides@lemmy.ca

[-] eZen52@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

here's my pick.

[-] Emotional_Series7814@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

@musicals@kbin.social
@hobbydrama@lemmy.world

Sadly both are inactive. I just posted to @musicals@kbin.social though, and intend to post to @hobbydrama@lemmy.world… sometime.

@namethatsong@lemmy.wtf, for helping people find out what song they are thinking of, just like the subreddit of the same name.

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

You need to use an exclamation mark to link to communities, for example it should be !musicals@kbin.social instead of @musicals@kbin.social

[-] Emotional_Series7814@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Communities show up as @communityname@instance.com to me when I'm browsing—I am on Kbin. It would be really nice if the two could just agree on this or make the links work with each other, because I know when I view them on a Lemmy website they say [!communityname@instance.com](/c/communityname@instance.com).

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago

Never actually realized that Kbin/Mbin uses a different format for community links

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago

That would be great indeed

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