Lemmings.world

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A general-purpose Lemmy server that anyone can use.

Read the Code of Conduct and follow the rules. There's also the new user's guide.

We have a bot that travels the Fediverse and subscribes to the most popular communities, so that close to all Lemmy content gets synced here.

You can also go chat with others on our Matrix.

We're part of the Fediseer chain of trust:

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This instance is funded out of my pocket, if you wish to donate (or just see how much it costs), visit the donations page.

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Lemmy engage with you in meaningful conversation in c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago (5 children)

The phenomena is called "Eternal September": people enjoy a deeper level of discourse, then a flood of newcomers arrives that disrupts the old patterns, leaving people not so much merely mourning the presence of the new so much as the loss of the old, which gets lost / flooded / drowned out amidst all of the new noise.

And like, the kids really do need a place to play? I for one find it enjoyable to play along with them too - in spaces such as !tenforward@lemmy.world that are designed specifically for such a purpose. So long as communities conducive to more thoughtful discussions exist alongside of that. Each community has its own purpose, and it's cool that they can co-exist (relatively peacefully).

Some of all this relates to technology implementation - for instance if I did not tag @hendrik@palaver.p3x.de , then would OP ever see my reply here, to you, sanity_is_maddening@piefed.social ? (Sadly the answer is not merely yes or no, but rather depends on the method of access: based on usage patterns I would wager that some apps notify someone of such a matter, while the standard webbrowser interface that I use does not, and other apps even go so far as to offer to hide posts that someone has interacted with, meaning like voted or commented on, which further facilitates the "consumption culture" of viewing something at most once and moving on to new posts, rather than revisit a topic that now has more comments that have been added since your last visit)

Most of it relates to a (lack of) willingness to put forth actual true "effort": someone would need to create a community, then do all the work of moderating it, plus often suffer through being the sole poster for a (potentially) VERY long amount of time. It is not easy to blaze new trails, and it is all too comforting a thought that perhaps someone else will do all of that drudge work for us, leaving us free to do only the bare minimum of whatever we actually enjoy? And I perhaps am making this point too strongly: life really does get in the way of such things, especially if someone has family (esp. kids), issues with their job, lives in America or otherwise may suffer from the impending WWIII, and so on. So there are reasons for such, yet the principle is still the same: things do not exist until and unless we create them.

So e.g. I helped create !AskUSA@discuss.online , which ngl I am avoiding posting to right now since it will inevitably turn political, as the dissolution of America happens live in front of all of our eyes (plus I've been worried about my personal job and life as well as stressed due to same). I see many others putting forth much better efforts though, e.g. Lexam@lemmy.world posts nearly daily in !Autism@lemmy.world and those sometimes generate thoughtful discussions. Granted, it's for a specific, you might say "niche" topic, just like AskUSA, but isn't that the point - not merely to "discourse" about nothing at all in particular (hehe, Seinfeld?) but rather to have something specific to talk about?

So my advice is to worry far less about what other people may or may not do, and take matters into your own hands: create a community about a topic that you are passionate about, then promote it (places such as !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !fedigrow@lemmy.zip can help a lot), or perhaps take over a dead community that the original creator has abandoned - or even just help by making posts of your own, to existing communities. If you find the right "match" of people looking for the same thing, then it will happen.

You cannot force interactions though, you can only help create a place wherein such can occur, i.e. that people feel welcomed to do so within. So plant a seed, water it, shelter it, protect it from pests, and it will grow! There are a lot of more niche communities though, and you may simply not have delved deep enough to find one to suit your interests? e.g. there is !philosophy@lemmy.world, !poetry@lemmy.world, !deepthoughts@lemmy.world (only a singular post there - that one could seriously use some love, yet despite that already has 83 subscribers just waiting, patiently or otherwise, for a second one if you want to contribute?).

I am not advocating here for a mere "be positive" type of attitude - rather I am saying that fortune favors the prepared, and you can get what you want... but it will take effort on your part, and if you truly want something then you can make it happen. I hope these links help with your search.

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Let's explore the fediverse 🤓 - 27 (piefed.social)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Snoopy@piefed.social to c/fediverse@piefed.social
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!communitypromo@lemmy.ca • !newcommunities@lemmy.world • !fedigrow@lemmy.zip • !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

Hi ! I hope you are well ! Here is our weekly thread 😎

The fediverse is big ! Let's share our small gold nugget found in the fediverse. :)

It could be :

  • A new peertube channel
  • An interesting mastodon account to follow
  • Your new community ! Yes ! Why not ?
  • An cool gallery of picture from pixelfed
  • A playlist from funkwhale
  • A text that moved you

Let's dig together ! 😁

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Let's explore the fediverse 🤓 - 26 (piefed.social)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Snoopy@piefed.social to c/fediverse@piefed.social
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Piefed chat • Fediverse wiki • Guide and tutorial

!communitypromo@lemmy.ca • !newcommunities@lemmy.world • !fedigrow@lemmy.zip • !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

Hi ! I hope you are well ! Here is our weekly thread 😎

The fediverse is big ! Let's share our small gold nugget found in the fediverse. :)

It could be :

  • A new peertube channel
  • An interesting mastodon account to follow
  • Your new community ! Yes ! Why not ?
  • An cool gallery of picture from pixelfed
  • A playlist from funkwhale
  • A text that moved you

Let's dig together ! 😁

I've just created c/Ollama! in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Instance independent link: !Ollama@lemmy.world

Share links to communities this way, so everyone can subscribe easily.

You should also post about this in !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca for better discoverability!

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!fedigrow@lemmy.zip - To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks (ponder.cat)
 
 

To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks

Resources:

Megathreads:

Rules:

  1. Be respectful
  2. No bigotry

Community link: !fedigrow@lemmy.zip

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Trending Communities for Wednesday 11th June 2025 (feddit.nl)
 
 

Active User Growth

!politicalmemes@lemmy.ca, Political Memes, 113 => 1271, 301 posts (5 this week)
!antifascism@midwest.social, Antifascism, 97 => 894, 68 posts (5 this week)
!leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com, Lefty Memes, 285 => 1828, 656 posts (8 this week)
!Funny@europe.pub, Funny, 20 => 436, 108 posts (11 this week)
!flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, Flippanarchy, 626 => 2269, 255 posts (7 this week)
!firefox@lemmy.world, Firefox, 55 => 391, 402 posts (7 this week)
!worldnews@aussie.zone, Overseas News, 131 => 558, 229 posts (7 this week)
!softwaregore@lemmy.world, Software Gore, 14 => 298, 267 posts (2 this week)
!antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world, Antique Memes Roadshow, 428 => 1590, 638 posts (11 this week)
!holup@lemmy.world, Holup, 290 => 1244, 48 posts (11 this week)
!neat@lemmy.world, Neat - For neat stuff you found, 43 => 351, 624 posts (7 this week)
!newcommunities@lemmy.world, New Communities, 65 => 470, 3368 posts (13 this week)
!furry_scientists@pawb.social, Furry Scientists, 23 => 203, 113 posts (6 this week)
!tumblr@lemmy.world, tumblr, 1007 => 2203, 729 posts (13 this week)
!palestine@sopuli.xyz, Palestine, 52 => 449, 114 posts (64 this week)
!games@sh.itjust.works, Games, 842 => 1626, 13355 posts (29 this week)
!punk_rock@lemmy.ca, Punk Rock, 29 => 237, 329 posts (1 this week)
!news@lemmy.sdf.org, News, 33 => 363, 88 posts (12 this week)
!foss_de@feddit.org, FOSS - Freie Software, 28 => 228, 93 posts (4 this week)
!aboringdystopia@lemmy.world, A Boring Dystopia, 3413 => 4492, 1417 posts (25 this week)
!cars@lemmy.world, Cars - For Car Enthusiasts, 45 => 250, 693 posts (3 this week)
!technology@lemmy.ml, Technology, 707 => 1310, 5760 posts (23 this week)
!uspolitics@lemmy.world, USpolitics, 64 => 290, 265 posts (4 this week)
!autism@lemmy.world, Autism, 1114 => 1684, 1022 posts (18 this week)
!unions@lemmy.ml, unions, 37 => 202, 1830 posts (7 this week)

Subscriber Growth

!friendicaworld@lemmy.world, Friendica.World status, support and issues, 15 => 71, 2 posts (1 this week)
!weirdtube@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space, The weird parts of PeerTube, 196 => 294, 35 posts (1 this week)
!privacy@lemmy.ca, privacy, 4318 => 4656, 283 posts (9 this week)
!30rock@dubvee.org, 30 Rock, 716 => 854, 378 posts (4 this week)
!AskMenOver30@lemmy.world, AskMenOver30, 111 => 166, 5 posts (1 this week)
!inmymind@lemmy.dbzer0.com, In My Mind, 299 => 387, 166 posts (2 this week)
!trams_trolleys_streetcars@lemmy.blahaj.zone, Trams, Trolleys and Streetcars, 1334 => 1514, 410 posts (2 this week)
!biodiversity@mander.xyz, Biodiversity, 1892 => 2100, 619 posts (6 this week)
!mongabay@rss.ponder.cat, Mongabay, 110 => 162, 2076 posts (67 this week)
!baking@sh.itjust.works, Baking, 387 => 481, 11 posts (1 this week)
!theregister@rss.ponder.cat, The Register, 169 => 228, 4666 posts (111 this week)
!biology@mander.xyz, Biology, 2000 => 2194, 360 posts (2 this week)
!harrypotter@literature.cafe, Harry Potter, 441 => 531, 105 posts (13 this week)
!centuriichan@sh.itjust.works, Centurii chan, 88 => 130, 27 posts (10 this week)
!historyruins@lemmy.world, History Ruins, 1124 => 1263, 349 posts (6 this week)
!mastodon@lemmy.world, Mastodon, 2385 => 2576, 77 posts (2 this week)
!czech@lemmy.world, Czech, 373 => 450, 27 posts (1 this week)
!vegan@lemmy.dbzer0.com, Vegan, 19 => 38, 19 posts (9 this week)
!aiop@lemmy.world, AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND, 1640 => 1795, 1530 posts (10 this week)
!Technology@programming.dev, Technology, 110 => 151, 293 posts (61 this week)
!adultswim@adultswim.fan, Adult Swim, 179 => 229, 167 posts (2 this week)
!castles@lemm.ee, Castles, 1715 => 1865, 131 posts (1 this week)
!battlestations@lemmy.world, Battlestations, 1460 => 1597, 27 posts (1 this week)
!jazz@lemmy.world, Jazz - For all the jazz lovers, 1219 => 1344, 411 posts (1 this week)
!poc@beehaw.org, People of Color, 555 => 640, 200 posts (1 this week)

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[META] The lemm.ee instance that this community is hosted on will go down at the end of June 2025 (lemmy.today)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by tal@lemmy.today to c/arcaderacing@lemm.ee
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https://lemm.ee/post/65824884 for details.

Moderators interested in migrating to a new community on another instance might want to consider selecting an instance and doing so sooner rather than later so that users here have time to see a migration post here and subscribe to the new community.

The sole moderator here, @gandolfini_the_grey@lemm.ee, last commented/posted a month ago. I've no idea how closely he's monitoring the situation, but it's possible that if he doesn't log in for the next three weeks, he might not notice what's going on until after the instance has gone down.

If that happens, then he won't have a great way to point to any new community. Maybe monitor !newcommunities@lemmy.world or !communitypromo@lemmy.ca, and he could post an announcement there?

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Tip: when mentioning or promoting a community, use the exclamation point format for convenient linking (see post body for details) (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world to c/newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
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The exclamation point format is this:

[!communityname@instance.name](/c/communityname@instance.name)

As an example, mentions should look like these:

!newcommunities@lemmy.world
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca

This is especially relevant when promoting a new community in the aforementioned communities, as otherwise it's less convenient to visit and join your community. A standard link would take someone off-site to whichever site the community's on, instead of its copy on their home site.

Forgot to include this key point as I was writing and revising all this:
Include these mentions in your post bodies! Having it in the title of the post alone doesn't help, as it doesn't create any link to click or tap through.

p.s. when typing these mentions, the WebUI will try to provide suggestions to autocomplete, select the right one and it should do the trick. App interfaces will vary but should provide some method to do similar in their post/comment editors, either try typing the mention or looking for an exclamation point in the editor and following what the interface offers to help.

made a Linux community all about customizing your distro (link in the body) in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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Tip of My Joystick: a new Lemmy community for finding a game whose name you can't remember (lemmy.zip)
 
 

Not my community, but I figured it might be of interest to gamers here. Post stolen right off of !newcommunities@lemmy.world.

This community is to find that game you can’t remember. Like it’s on the tip of your tongue.

Do you remember something about a game, but can’t find the title? Do you want to finally know what it is? Post here and maybe someone can help.

Come to find your game, or help others find theirs!

!tipofmyjoystick@retrolemmy.com

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"Suggest a community" community? (lemmy.world)
 
 

I often come across ideas for new communities (sometimes I even have them myself), but I'm not always sure whether they would get traction.

How about a "suggest a community" community, where people can post suggestions, and get feedback on the idea, maybe tweak it a bit to be more useful, and also look for co-moderators?

It could act in parallel to !newcommunities@lemmy.world

Anyone have any ideas for how this could work better? Anyone want to co-moderate one?

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Resources for discovery across the open social web/fediverse (lemmy.world)
 
 

This is a more focused revision of a post I made a few months ago, with an aim to help with discovery across the fediverse.

List of various directory/index-style sites to help find people/communities of interest
Software overview

Finding instances/software-agnostic

Microblog specific

Forum/link aggregator specific

Video/Streaming specific

Searching and Following methods
This will vary across software, and may change as it changes, so take note of when this was written (end of March 2025).

By default, ActivityPub sites don't know of other, remote sites. Any remote site stuff you're seeing is because somehow the site your on was made aware of the other's stuff. Typically this may be that a user learns of a remote site's stuff in some way and decides to follow from their home site by looking it up via their site's search then subscribing/following.

All of the above format-specific links I've provided above are means of finding some remote sites' stuff to follow on one's home site. Below are some additional tools and methods to further help when using some of these different sites.

Microblog Tools and Methods
Tools

Methods

  • On Mastodon: follow hashtags to surface other accounts you might want to follow.
    • Also make use of its keyword/hashtag filters to cut down on the sorts of posts you don't want to see by going to account preferences, filters.
  • On Misskey & forks: create custom feeds via the "antenna" feature by choosing keywords and hashtags to track while using the same to exclude/filter out posts with other keywords/hashtags.
    • Also make use of its mute/block settings to cut down on the sorts of posts you don't want to see by going to settings, under other settings, mutes and blocks.
  • Post with hashtags more to help others searching by or following them find your posts. Even if it's just someone else on your home instance, if they share (boost/repost) your post and they have remote followers, it may help increase your visibility across the network.

Forum/link aggregator Tools and Methods
Tools

Methods

  • Follow the aforementioned communities under Forum/link aggregator specific above, or ask in !lemmy411@lemmy.ca or !communitypromo@lemmy.ca about communities.
  • On Piefed/Mbin sites, use the keyword filtering feature to filter out posts you're uninterested in.
  • Browse Local or All with sort set to New to see if any unfamiliar communities show up that you may want to follow.
    • Block communities/instances you're uninterested in to help improve potential communities of interest visibility as you browse.

If you're aware of other resources, tools, or methods that I've not mentioned here, please mention them in the comments! There's undoubtedly more to add that I've not come across.

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New Ansible comm (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 
 

Cross-posted from "New Ansible comm" by @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com in !newcommunities@lemmy.world

Hey all, I've created a comm for my favourite infra automation tool: Ansible.

There's one in l.w. but it's been abandoned for a while now and barely has any traffic, so I felt it's a good time to distribute things a while

!ansible@lemmy.dbzer0.com

EDIT: Ignore the thumbnail. Lemmy is bugging out again with the previews.

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New Member FAQ - [Frequently Asked Questions] (crazypeople.online)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by cpo_admin@crazypeople.online to c/main@crazypeople.online
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General FAQ

Below you'll find answers to some of the most commonly asked questions from new Lemmy users. If you don't see the answers you're looking for feel free to ask here or start a new post. Updates will be added as needed.

How can I find communities that interest me on Lemmy?

Show Answer

We've done our best to get everyone started with the Fediverse by offering some of the most popular communities on Lemmy on our All page, but this is only a tiny fraction of what the fediverse has to offer!

An unfortunate side effect of how federation works is that communities don't start sharing data until someone from your home instance discovers and subscribes to them. What this means is a lot of the time you won't be able to easily find communities on other instances if you're the first one to search for that topic on our instance. Luckily there are lots of tools around the Fediverse to help out!

Lemmyverse is a search engine designed to help people find new communities and instances. They index over 20,000 communities to search through with convenient features like setting your home instance so that all the links you click will open here for easy subscribing.

Community Promo is where new and existing communities let you know they're looking for people with shared interests. If you've started a community be sure to announce it here.

New Communities is a great resource to find out about the newest places or announce a space you've created.

Trending Communities offers a daily bot post highlighting a mix of the most popular and up and coming communities.

Communities is another bot post community but this one offers daily links with descriptions for established communities you may not have seen yet.

I subscribed to a community but it doesn't show anything/looks dead.

Show Answer

There's a good chance you joined a community on another instance. If you're the first person from our instance to join it there can be a delay before the content starts showing up. Refresh the page or check back in a few minutes and you should see things starting to come in. Be aware that sometimes this process can take significantly longer if the community isn't very active.

If you're seeing older content in a community but nothing new, it's likely someone else from our instance used to be subscribed there and unsubscribed. If no one locally is subscribed our instance will stop updating the community until someone resubscribes to it. Communities can die out and instances can shut down though so if you aren't seeing any updates after days or weeks it's likely the community is no longer active.

I can/can't see a post or comment from another account that I can't/can see here. Why?

Show Answer

It could be a number of things but there are a few likely culprits.

Accidentally hiding read posts is one of the most common causes of disappearing content. Please verify you have this setting enabled for your account if you're unable to see posts you've previously interacted with.

Account Settings Sample Image

NSFW and Language settings on your account can completely hide content from you. Make sure you have your settings adjusted appropriately to be able to see the content you are looking for. It's not uncommon to select every language option to make sure you are seeing everything on Lemmy. The only content we intentionally block is CSAM and spam.

Federation lag can also occur, causing data to be delayed by several minutes or even days between instances. Under normal conditions this shouldn't happen and should be reported if you notice it. Please provide any supporting data and links when reporting.

Instances can choose to federate or de-federate with one another for any reason. We are federated with all other instances with open federation and only de-federate from instances being used for malicious activities. If another instance can't see ours or we can't see them it's likely no one from our respective instances has subscribed to anything from the other, but you can check the instances list to see if they're being blocked on our side. Other instances should have a similar link near the bottom of the page on their site. If you believe an instance has been de-federated by mistake don't hesitate to contact us.

Where is the downvote button?

Show Answer

Our instance has chosen to disable downvotes. If you're using Lemmy through a browser you won't see the downvote button at all. If you use a mobile app you may still see the option to downvote but it doesn't do anything here. To our instance they simply do not exist. What this means is that local and federated content is not subject to attempts at censorship, harassment, or brigading via downvotes. We prefer to let our members decide how to filter their feed through subscriptions and blocks instead of allowing content to be buried by the downvotes of others.

Lemmy is making me depressed in c/goodoffmychest@lemmy.world
[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 57 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

Yeah, I know what you're saying, especially when I browse "All."

That's why I generally just subscribe to comms that I like (about non-politics non-tech things) and browse "Subscribed". Then when I'm ready after that, then I browse All. Or maybe I just skip All.

click here for a list of communities that are NOT politics, tech, or meme -related.

Most are currently active (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked) Sometimes politics, tech or memes sneak in but they're not the focus.

GENERAL DISCUSSION / QUESTIONS

ART / PHOTOS

ANIMALS

COMICS / GRAPHIC NOVELS

ENTERTAINMENT

GENRES / STYLES

HISTORY

INFORMATION / KNOWLEDGE

OTHER

FEDIVERSE

FINDING NEW/GOOD COMMUNITIES ON LEMMY

click here for a list of meme communities

MEMES, SOCIAL MEDIA REPOSTS, AND HUMOR ~~(NON-POLITICAL)~~

Most of these are currently active. (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked). ~~Sometimes politics sneaks in but that's not the focus.~~ Sometimes these include politics but that's not the primary focus.

Lemmy Just Broke the 54k MAU Record Set During the 2023 API Exodus! in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 23 points 3 months ago

I don't think the subs failed to get off the ground because of federation, I think they did because they didn't have a dedicated person tirelessly filling them with posts and single-handedly carrying them. Because that's still where we are population wise. 50k+ MAUs is very nice, but not nearly enough for niche subs to be self-sustaining. Look at any small but active Lemmy sub right now and it's often a single person doing 90% of the posting. The only real way to get a new sub going is to be that person.

At least now we have stuff like Lemmy Federate and places like !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca that are both fairly active, so getting a new sub off the ground should be much easier than two years ago.

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New to Lemmy? Start here (lemmy.ca)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by otter@lemmy.ca to c/newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
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A big welcome to everyone that has joined these past few weeks, we're all very excited to have you joining us! You'll find that people are more than happy to help you get started and learn how to use the site.

If you feel up for it, go ahead and make a post in this community introducing yourself, asking questions, or asking about topics that you want to find communities for. This community is intended for this purpose!

We have put together some resources to help new users get started.

You can also read:

These guides were published very recently, and we will be updating them over time. If you find that something is confusing or missing, please let us know and we can improve them further.

Welcome to Lemmy :)

A few common issues:

"I'm not seeing all the content"

Lemmy allows you to filter out content based on the language, but some new users will set this incorrectly in their settings. Please see this post for help. You can also post in either this community, or !languagesettings@lemmy.zip to ask for more help.

"I want to block posts with certain words"

It is possible to use uBlock Origin to do this in the web browser. See this post for detailed instructions.

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[Meta] Would anyone have any issue with locking this community, keeping all the posts and comments up, and redirecting to !television@lemm.ee ? (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Blaze@lemm.ee to c/moviesandtv@lemm.ee
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Follow up from https://lemm.ee/post/57999596 and https://lemm.ee/post/58201093 and

See https://lemmy.world/c/football for an example of what we would like to do.

The moderation team would stay the same. We’ll keep a pinned post here to say we are moving.

We’ll promote it on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !newcommunities@lemmy.world

Impact for people here would be minimal. We can even ping regular posters and commenters like https://lemmy.world/post/24312613

We can always revisit later if needed.

You can vote below about this decision. ~~We’ll see what the decision is in 24h hours.~~

Vote extended to Monday evening US time. We can then discuss what we want to do then.

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[Meta] Would anyone have any issue with locking this community, keeping all the posts and comments up, and redirecting to !television@lemm.ee ? (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Blaze@lemm.ee to c/showsandmovies@lemm.ee
18 comments fedilink
 
 

Follow up from https://lemm.ee/post/58201093

See https://lemmy.world/c/football for an example of what we would like to do.

The moderation team would stay the same. We’ll keep a pinned post here to say we are moving.

We’ll promote it on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !newcommunities@lemmy.world

Impact for people here would be minimal. We can even ping regular posters and commenters like https://lemmy.world/post/24312613

We can always revisit later if needed.

You can vote below about this decision. ~~We’ll see what the decision is in 24h hours.~~

Vote extended to Monday evening US time

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New Community about Drag Entertainment (Drag Race and other shows) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 
 

!drag_entertainment@fedia.io

cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/newcommunities@lemmy.world/t/1900088

There is a community in Lemmy but it's been abandoned. I use to run one in Kbin until it died, so I am launching a new one via Mbin. Come kiki and spill the T on your favorite drag shows!

https://fedia.io/m/Drag_Entertainment

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Trending Communities for Tuesday 11th March 2025 (feddit.nl)
 
 

Active User Growth

!nolawns@slrpnk.net, No Lawns, 32 => 664, 125 posts (1 this week)
!tabletopminis@lemmy.world, Tabletop Miniatures, 44 => 678, 638 posts (5 this week)
!actually_infuriating@lemmy.world, Actually Infuriating, 23 => 445, 34 posts (3 this week)
!buyeuropean@feddit.uk, Buy European, 4334 => 9267, 393 posts (211 this week)
!newcommunities@lemmy.world, New Communities, 350 => 1690, 3245 posts (8 this week)
!goodnewseveryone@sh.itjust.works, Good News Everyone, 22 => 387, 42 posts (1 this week)
!economics@lemmy.ml, Economics, 41 => 426, 694 posts (6 this week)
!art@lemmy.world, Art, 11 => 71, 307 posts (1 this week)
!palestine@lemm.ee, Palestine, 83 => 441, 552 posts (7 this week)
!simpleliving@lemmy.ml, Simple Living, 11 => 89, 92 posts (3 this week)
!texas@lemmy.world, Texas, 51 => 382, 771 posts (6 this week)
!buyfromeu@feddit.org, BuyFromEU, 1247 => 2475, 135 posts (65 this week)
!noncredibledefense@lemmy.world, NonCredibleDefense, 641 => 1224, 703 posts (12 this week)
!videos@lemmy.ml, Videos, 35 => 279, 2048 posts (11 this week)
!isglitch@lemmy.world, isGlitch.com - the online-est of tech rags, 67 => 287, 303 posts (5 this week)
!weedtime@crazypeople.online, weedtime, 121 => 520, 27 posts (9 this week)
!anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com, Anarchism, 34 => 176, 266 posts (2 this week)
!lemmyapps@lemmy.world, Lemmy Apps, 50 => 265, 308 posts (3 this week)
!funhole@lemmy.sdf.org, Funhole, 205 => 669, 524 posts (19 this week)
!antiwork@lemmy.world, Antiwork, 395 => 857, 279 posts (3 this week)
!digitalart@lemmy.world, Digital Art, 48 => 225, 1241 posts (3 this week)
!movies@lemmy.world, Movies, 368 => 900, 1543 posts (31 this week)
!dontdeadopeninside@lemmy.ohaa.xyz, Don't Dead - Open Inside, 136 => 460, 62 posts (2 this week)
!linux_gaming@lemmy.world, Linux Gaming, 1111 => 1746, 1233 posts (14 this week)
!leaky_cauldron@diagonlemmy.social, The Leaky Cauldron, 67 => 288, 275 posts (4 this week)

Subscriber Growth

!boycottus@lemmy.ca, Boycott US, 285 => 436, 20 posts (3 this week)
!peoplebluesky@lemmy.world, Bluesky, 599 => 758, 129 posts (6 this week)
!invincible@lemmy.world, Invincible (show and comics), 58 => 102, 33 posts (1 this week)
!internetisbeautiful@lemm.ee, Internet is Beautiful, 1241 => 1426, 270 posts (4 this week)
!upliftingnews@lemmy.world, Uplifting News, 13086 => 13625, 781 posts (11 this week)
!MapleResistance@lemmy.ca, MapleResistance, 94 => 134, 10 posts (1 this week)
!yurop@lemm.ee, YUROP, 1752 => 1913, 382 posts (4 this week)
!science_memes@mander.xyz, Science Memes, 12690 => 13116, 4075 posts (27 this week)
!peertube@lemmy.world, Peertube, 193 => 246, 241 posts (49 this week)
!showsandmovies@lemm.ee, Shows and TV, 1299 => 1425, 910 posts (23 this week)
!askacanadian@lemmy.ca, AskACanadian, 448 => 519, 20 posts (1 this week)
!severance@lemmy.world, Severance, 323 => 381, 31 posts (1 this week)
!bestoflemmy@lemmy.world, BestOfLemmy, 7953 => 8232, 140 posts (1 this week)
!fedimemes@feddit.uk, Fediverse memes, 860 => 953, 205 posts (6 this week)
!privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, Privacy, 1228 => 1338, 223 posts (23 this week)
!aww@lemmy.world, aww, 21169 => 21583, 1664 posts (4 this week)
!selfhosted@lemmy.world, Selfhosted, 43305 => 43893, 4140 posts (21 this week)
!aiop@lemmy.world, AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND, 1175 => 1273, 1367 posts (15 this week)
!privacy@lemmy.world, Privacy, 5075 => 5277, 405 posts (2 this week)
!dielinke@feddit.org, DIE LINKE, 292 => 341, 123 posts (8 this week)
!shittytattoos@lemmy.ca, Shitty/Trashy Tattoos, 163 => 199, 42 posts (5 this week)
!pics@lemmy.world, pics, 20833 => 21203, 3283 posts (14 this week)
!medicine@lemmy.ml, medicine, 114 => 142, 11 posts (1 this week)
!inperson@slrpnk.net, In Person Activism, 435 => 489, 140 posts (7 this week)
!world@quokk.au, World News, 707 => 775, 1785 posts (92 this week)

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Welcome, all new users, to RetroLemmy! - a quick guide to Lemmy (retrolemmy.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by DosDude@retrolemmy.com to c/general@retrolemmy.com
2 comments fedilink
 
 

There is currently a big influx of new users. Most, if not all, being reddit refugees.

I want to welcome you all to the fediverse, lemmy and retrolemmy specifically. If you need help starting out you can either try !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca or you can comment here, post in this community or message me or @Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com directly. We are here to help.

Some basic things:

Usernames are usually written out as @DosDude@retrolemmy.com. The @ in front indicates a user. It looks like an e-mail adress by design, Because there can be users with the same name on different instances. For example: @dosdude@feddit.nl

Communities are usually written out as !general@retrolemmy.com . The exclamation point indicates a community. This also looks like an e-mail address because there can also be communities with the same name on different instances.

Sometimes new communities will not load. This usually means that the community is not yet federated. You can either manually add it to lemmy-federate or you can subscribe. That way the community is federated and posts will show up. If you make a new community it is always good practice to add it to Lemmy federate. To make sure it's federated to all participating instances and maximize your user spread.

Here is a good FAQ via Lemm.ee.

Some good resources for finding communities:

https://lemmyverse.net/ - A website dedicated to finding new communities. Be sure to set your home instance using the domain name: for example: "retrolemmy.com". This is to make sure that if you click a community, it automatically links it through your instance.

https://lemmy-federate.com/ - a website to post communities so that servers' bots automatically subscribe to it, and it will show up in /all on all participating instances.

!newcommunities@lemmy.world - a community dedicated to promoting new communities.
!newcommunities@discuss.online - same as above.
!newcommunities@yiffit.net - same as above.
!lemmyapps@lemmy.world - lemmy apps community

Apps

There are loads of apps for your phone on the stores. Many of them were refitted from reddit apps to Lemmy. Here's a big megathread with all kinds of apps via lemmy.world
Or you can go to https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/ to find one not in the megathread

We hope you have a good time here!

returning to lemmy in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

You're on a good instance. Go crazy, fam.

click here for a list of communities that are NOT news, politics, tech, or meme -related.

Most are currently active (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked)

GENERAL DISCUSSION / QUESTIONS

ART / PHOTOS

ANIMALS

COMICS / GRAPHIC NOVELS

ENTERTAINMENT

GENRES / STYLES

HISTORY

INFORMATION / KNOWLEDGE

OTHER

FEDIVERSE

FINDING NEW/GOOD COMMUNITIES ON LEMMY

click here for a list of meme communities

MEMES, SOCIAL MEDIA REPOSTS, AND HUMOR (NON-POLITICAL)

Most of these are currently active. (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked). Sometimes politics sneaks in but that's not the focus.

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Trending Communities for Friday 7th March 2025 (feddit.nl)
 
 

Active User Growth

!ehbuddyhoser@sh.itjust.works, Eh Buddy Hoser, 103 => 942, 24 posts (10 this week)
!boycottus@lemmy.ca, Boycott US, 29 => 1095, 18 posts (9 this week)
!aboringdystopia@mander.xyz, A Boring Dystopia, 38 => 782, 16 posts (1 this week)
!newcommunities@lemmy.world, New Communities, 268 => 1187, 3238 posts (12 this week)
!unpopularopinion@lemmy.world, Unpopular Opinion, 92 => 591, 550 posts (5 this week)
!buyeuropean@feddit.uk, Buy European, 2205 => 4940, 204 posts (160 this week)
!noncrediblediplomacy@sh.itjust.works, NonCredibleDiplomacy, 92 => 664, 30 posts (4 this week)
!bestoflemmy@lemmy.world, BestOfLemmy, 202 => 1028, 139 posts (4 this week)
!nottheonion@lemmy.world, Not The Onion, 2671 => 4650, 1353 posts (28 this week)
!goblincore@lemmy.blahaj.zone, Goblincore, 299 => 1304, 179 posts (12 this week)
!buyfromeu@feddit.org, BuyFromEU, 402 => 1304, 76 posts (50 this week)
!lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works, Cross stitch and embroidery, 37 => 400, 293 posts (3 this week)
!buycanadian@lemmy.ca, Buy Canadian, 1060 => 2348, 149 posts (58 this week)
!teslamotors@lemmy.zip, Tesla, 40 => 334, 263 posts (5 this week)
!badtaxidermy@mander.xyz, Bad Taxidermy, 27 => 252, 65 posts (9 this week)
!palestine@lemm.ee, Palestine, 34 => 361, 548 posts (10 this week)
!fedimemes@feddit.uk, Fediverse memes, 1475 => 2972, 200 posts (14 this week)
!196@lemmy.world, 196, 2109 => 3624, 1121 posts (31 this week)
!science_memes@mander.xyz, Science Memes, 6199 => 8053, 4056 posts (59 this week)
!historymemes@lemmy.world, A Comm for Historymemes, 1474 => 2384, 848 posts (26 this week)
!usa@lemmy.ml, United States | News & Politics, 1203 => 2428, 7462 posts (67 this week)
!minnesota@midwest.social, Minnesota, 67 => 417, 305 posts (3 this week)
!steamdeckpirates@lemmy.dbzer0.com, SteamDeckPirates, 28 => 298, 28 posts (9 this week)
!retrogaming@lemmy.world, RetroGaming, 1105 => 2150, 1853 posts (30 this week)
!worldnews@sh.itjust.works, worldnews, 45 => 182, 577 posts (14 this week)

Subscriber Growth

!Boykot_USA@feddit.dk, Boykot USA - praktiske tips, 4 => 76, 6 posts (5 this week)
!privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, Privacy, 1000 => 1235, 202 posts (43 this week)
!shittytattoos@lemmy.ca, Shitty/Trashy Tattoos, 113 => 165, 38 posts (9 this week)
!Cyberstuck@lemmy.ca, Cyberstuck, 159 => 214, 36 posts (14 this week)
!dielinke@feddit.org, DIE LINKE, 233 => 293, 115 posts (15 this week)
!MapleResistance@lemmy.ca, MapleResistance, 67 => 95, 9 posts (4 this week)
!severance@lemmy.world, Severance, 272 => 325, 30 posts (2 this week)
!peoplebluesky@lemmy.world, Bluesky, 542 => 615, 125 posts (12 this week)
!utilisereuropeen@jlai.lu, Utiliser Européen, 57 => 81, 13 posts (2 this week)
!yurop@lemm.ee, YUROP, 1666 => 1780, 378 posts (10 this week)
!showsandmovies@lemm.ee, Shows and TV, 1222 => 1318, 891 posts (23 this week)
!internetisbeautiful@lemm.ee, Internet is Beautiful, 1188 => 1276, 267 posts (3 this week)
!anotherrealitydream@lemmy.world, Anotherrealitydream, 5 => 11, 4 posts (2 this week)
!peertube@lemmy.world, Peertube, 167 => 197, 196 posts (50 this week)
!memes@jlai.lu, Les mèmes en anglois, 49 => 65, 10 posts (3 this week)
!mehmes@lemmy.ca, mehmes, 103 => 126, 46 posts (6 this week)
!hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se, Hacker News, 736 => 795, 15091 posts (623 this week)
!wissenschaft@feddit.org, Wissenschaft, 203 => 234, 103 posts (5 this week)
!upliftingnews@lemmy.world, Uplifting News, 12893 => 13132, 773 posts (12 this week)
!privacy@lemmy.world, Privacy, 4952 => 5099, 404 posts (11 this week)
!privacy@lemmy.ml, Privacy, 34319 => 34704, 5081 posts (41 this week)
!onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone, 196, 2231 => 2327, 1493 posts (150 this week)
!opensource@lemmy.ml, Open Source, 33414 => 33783, 3310 posts (10 this week)
!selfhosted@lemmy.world, Selfhosted, 42963 => 43362, 4128 posts (44 this week)
!askacanadian@lemmy.ca, AskACanadian, 417 => 456, 20 posts (1 this week)

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Welcome! Newcomer Resources and Help (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world
1 comments fedilink
 
 

Thanks for checking this out! Below you'll find a few different resources to help you figure things out around here, but also feel free to ask any questions in the comments below. The aim of this post is to provide a reference point for new and returning people, so save or bookmark it and return to it either to ask questions or simply refresh your memory.

Is there an app?
For sites using Lemmy, yes, several in fact. One of the more often recommended ones for both iOS and Android is the Voyager app. Another cross-platform option is the Thunder app. For questions and discussions of other apps for sites using Lemmy, you may check out !lemmyapps@lemmy.world.

For sites using Mbin, and for Android and Linux there's currently the Interstellar app.

For sites using Piefed, there are no apps, but it's built to work well as a Progressive Web App.

Where's support?
Each site and app may have its respective support community and/or support contact info, which will differ accordingly, so this is out of scope for this post. Nevertheless you may ask for guidance below, and there's also the following community for people new to Lemmy in particular: !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

For help and feedback on the software behind the sites, it's a little easier:

Where do I find new communities/subreddits?
Ask here, or !lemmy411@lemmy.ca! You may also browse the front page of your chosen site (such as Lemmy World, Piefed Social, Kbin Earth, or the like), which will usually display the variety of communities people there may have subscribed to.

Otherwise, you may subscribe to the following communities:

Lastly, you may check out Lemmyverse to search even more broadly.

Can I make my own community?
It depends on the site you signed up on, but usually yes. Generally it's better to do so from a computer than a smartphone though, as you're less likely to run into odd issues that way. If you find you can't for some reason, ask below (mentioning whether trying from computer/smartphone and using apps or not) and someone may try to help you out, directing you to your site's support or otherwise.

If all has gone well, you may want to subscribe to !fedigrow@lemm.ee to talk to others working on building up communities.

Why is it asking me to sign in to post a comment?
You may have followed a link to a different site using Lemmy (or the like) than the one you registered on without realizing it, which at present is an unfortunate rough edge of things here. Signing up to one site doesn't provide a single sign-on to other sites using Lemmy or similar.

What's federation?
Without getting into the weeds, it's different websites sharing content between themselves to enable interaction with each other. Unless you're deep into all this or issues arise, ideally this should fade into the background. It's talked about a lot currently because many here are deep into it, and a lot of the software built around it is still developing, so unfortunately issues do still occur.

Any other questions or resources to add, the comments are open!

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Is communities discovery really that bad, do we just miss enough people, or should people revisit their expectations and go for more general communities? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 
 

Kind of a companion thread to the recent one on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com asking people which community there were missing.

I had a quick look, and most of those seem to be niches that can't be filled until we reach a higher population.

There is still maybe some potential improvement about some less well-known community that other people are interested in and that could some additional activity.

I try to help to make less known communities known with the regular threads on !newcommunities@lemmy.world (now moving to !communitypromo@lemmy.ca ), but there is probably only a level of detail we have to stop at with 47k monthly active users.

One example is !jrpg@lemmy.zip, it seems reasonable active, and is probably a better compromise than having each game having its own community.

Similar with !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works, or !showsandmovies@lemm.ee. I posted a thread about Ted Lasso a few days ago, it got some nice comments, but probably not enough to have a full fledged dedicated community.

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Astuce pour les nouveaux arrivants: !newcommunities@lemmy.world permet de découvrir de nouvelles communautés (jlai.lu)
 
 

La communauté: !newcommunities@lemmy.world

Une liste de 30 communautés actives:

Vous l'aurez sans doute remarqué, Jlai.lu n'est pas encore super actif, notamment sur les sujets de niches. Comme le Reddit des débuts, c'est souvent plus simple de trouver une communauté en anglais avec plus de monde.

Un exemple: !movies@lemm.ee

Welcome Redditors from the thread earlier today! in c/fedimemes@feddit.uk
[–] Blaze@feddit.org 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For new people

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General good communities list (ponder.cat)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to c/communities@ponder.cat
21 comments fedilink
 
 

Hey everyone. I thought it would be nice to keep a running list of generally high-quality communities available on Lemmy.

Probably I'm not the first person who has thought of this, but I haven't actually seen one. If this is useful, let me know, and I can keep it updated, or let me know any additions you think would be useful.

News

Catch-All News and Information

Memes and Randomness

Art (Traditional)

Art (Modern)

Art (User-Created)

Art (Photography)

Lemmy Metacommunities

Technology

Entertainment

Science

Hobbies

Cooking

Chat

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Trending Communities for Friday 10th January 2025 (feddit.nl)
 
 

Active User Growth

!antiwork@lemmy.ml, Antiwork, 11 => 267, 646 posts (1 this week)
!bisexual@lemmy.world, Bisexual, 14 => 122, 52 posts (1 this week)
!news@aussie.zone, Australian News, 28 => 276, 339 posts (6 this week)
!aww@lemmy.ml, cute dogs, cats, and other animals, 52 => 381, 1090 posts (4 this week)
!houseplants@mander.xyz, Houseplants, 18 => 242, 322 posts (4 this week)
!newcommunities@lemmy.world, New Communities, 241 => 770, 3157 posts (19 this week)
!steamdeck@sopuli.xyz, Steam Deck, 734 => 1627, 1212 posts (22 this week)
!vaporwave@sh.itjust.works, V a p o r w a v e, 12 => 109, 60 posts (2 this week)
!star_wars@lemmy.world, Star Wars, 28 => 151, 371 posts (1 this week)
!main@hexbear.net, Post on Main, 200 => 511, 37544 posts (14 this week)
!me_irl@lemmy.world, me_irl, 1491 => 1962, 533 posts (10 this week)
!legalnews@lemmy.zip, Legal News, 281 => 626, 929 posts (22 this week)
!lotrmemes@midwest.social, Lord of the memes, 524 => 1027, 918 posts (6 this week)
!dogs@lemmy.world, Dogs, 703 => 1129, 498 posts (10 this week)
!alternativenation@lemmy.world, Alternative Nation: The Fediverse's Alternative and Indie Music Community, 39 => 162, 2722 posts (8 this week)
!feminism@lemmy.world, Feminism, 11 => 97, 214 posts (4 this week)
!ghazi@lemmy.blahaj.zone, Ghazi, 129 => 394, 745 posts (10 this week)
!linux@programming.dev, Linux, 413 => 673, 818 posts (19 this week)
!apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world, Apple, 636 => 947, 1328 posts (13 this week)
!lovecraft_mythos@lemmy.world, Lovecraft Mythos - Cosmic Horror, 107 => 309, 211 posts (4 this week)
!perseverancerover@lemmy.world, NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover, 39 => 170, 728 posts (6 this week)
!photography@lemmy.world, Photography, 95 => 250, 514 posts (8 this week)
!cat@lemmy.world, cats, 2722 => 3143, 4669 posts (51 this week)
!monitors@lemm.ee, Monitors, 33 => 136, 133 posts (16 this week)
!explainlikeimfive@lemmy.world, Explain Like I'm Five, 287 => 473, 102 posts (2 this week)

Subscriber Growth

!soapmaking@sh.itjust.works, Soap Making, 145 => 175, 12 posts (1 this week)
!carnivore@lemm.ee, Carnivore, 39 => 52, 21 posts (18 this week)
!leagueoflegends@lemm.ee, League of Legends, 63 => 78, 20 posts (18 this week)
!plantbased@lemmy.dbzer0.com, Plantbased, 72 => 89, 12 posts (4 this week)
!52weeksofart@lemmy.world, 52 Weeks of Art, 65 => 77, 8 posts (2 this week)
!bready@lemmy.world, Bready, 1217 => 1275, 117 posts (1 this week)
!peertube@lemmy.ca, Peertube, 55 => 66, 5 posts (1 this week)
!600euro@feddit.org, 600 Euro, 321 => 348, 36 posts (2 this week)
!musicproduction@sh.itjust.works, Music Production, 572 => 598, 53 posts (2 this week)

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Trending Communities for Monday 6th January 2025 (feddit.nl)
 
 

Active User Growth

!shitty_million_dollar_ideas@lemmy.dbzer0.com, Shitty Million Dollar Ideas, 29 => 627, 75 posts (2 this week)
!cats@sh.itjust.works, cats, 23 => 318, 288 posts (2 this week)
!dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz, Data is Beautiful, 65 => 438, 145 posts (4 this week)
!cyberpunk@lemmy.zip, Cyberpunk, 10 => 268, 272 posts (2 this week)
!linux_gaming@lemmy.world, Linux Gaming, 498 => 2059, 1008 posts (18 this week)
!futurama@lemmy.world, Futurama, 141 => 883, 290 posts (3 this week)
!me_irl@lemmy.world, me_irl, 716 => 2329, 528 posts (10 this week)
!custardfist@feddit.nl, CustardFist, 18 => 201, 200 posts (4 this week)
!dogs@lemmy.world, Dogs, 283 => 1168, 495 posts (10 this week)
!trees@lemmy.world, Trees, 80 => 553, 579 posts (9 this week)
!aww@lemmy.world, aww, 1051 => 2144, 1571 posts (13 this week)
!goodoffmychest@lemmy.world, Off My Chest, 101 => 479, 126 posts (1 this week)
!newcommunities@lemmy.world, New Communities, 236 => 600, 3151 posts (15 this week)
!voyagerapp@lemmy.world, Voyager, 70 => 352, 876 posts (8 this week)
!asklemmy@lemmy.world, Ask Lemmy, 5605 => 6592, 4856 posts (84 this week)
!longreads@sh.itjust.works, Excellent Reads, 84 => 351, 262 posts (6 this week)
!nostupidquestions@lemmy.world, No Stupid Questions, 3700 => 4352, 3456 posts (35 this week)
!codingcafe@programming.dev, Coding Cafe, 34 => 166, 16 posts (3 this week)
!linux@lemmy.world, Linux, 557 => 974, 764 posts (20 this week)
!main@hexbear.net, Post on Main, 200 => 461, 37541 posts (11 this week)
!nathanwpyle@lemmy.world, Strange Planet by Nathan W. Pyle, 407 => 833, 80 posts (1 this week)
!apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world, Apple, 594 => 1055, 1319 posts (9 this week)
!stable_diffusion@lemmy.dbzer0.com, Stable Diffusion, 17 => 99, 863 posts (3 this week)
!sysadmin@lemmy.world, Sysadmin, 195 => 419, 219 posts (3 this week)
!lego@lemmy.world, LEGO, 75 => 220, 303 posts (3 this week)

Subscriber Growth

!plantbased@lemmy.dbzer0.com, Plantbased, 47 => 83, 11 posts (4 this week)
!ArtificialIgnorance@lemmy.ca, Artificial Ignorance, 57 => 70, 4 posts (1 this week)
!TwoGoobers@lemm.ee, Two Goobers — Just the Two of Us, 160 => 177, 35 posts (2 this week)
!noseears@lemm.ee, Nose Ears, 60 => 70, 46 posts (12 this week)
!52weeksofart@lemmy.world, 52 Weeks of Art, 65 => 73, 7 posts (2 this week)
!leagueoflegends@lemm.ee, League of Legends, 63 => 70, 8 posts (6 this week)
!bready@lemmy.world, Bready, 1213 => 1251, 117 posts (3 this week)

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Casual Fediverse Resources, or a Traveler's Guide to the Fediverse (lemmy.world)
 
 

If you're reading this, you may be new or interested in seeing what's up.

What the Fed?
So putting it overly simply and from the start, the whole federation thing is basically like you following/subscribing to people/channels to make your timeline or for you page, but it's a whole community activity and some of the people/channels are from a variety of places rather than a single platform.

From there, you then curate what the community's found to suit your interests as you would in other places, following/subscribing and blocking, muting, or keyword filtering, depending on where you're participating from. For what your place and community's found, you'll look through either the "All" or "Other Servers" feeds. "Other Servers" just means only from other places and their communities, meanwhile the "All" feed is a blend of both original stuff from your place and from other places.

If you want to see only what your place's posting, sharing, and discussing, you'd look to either the "Local" or "This Server" feed. If you're from a small place, chances are this may be quieter than bigger places, like a village compared to a city. This may also extend to the aforementioned "All" feeds, but that depends on your place's community and whether they're avid lurkers following and subscribing to many without saying much, or the opposite, highly chatty with each other while not looking much beyond their little place.

Gettin' Messy
But what if your community hasn't found what you'd like to follow yet?

Here's where things get messy and either fun, or frustrating, depending on your mindset and time of day. You gotta roam the web, be curious. See the weird thing after someone's name? Like "DingoDazzle@doughnut.delish?" That "doughnut.delish" is another place with who knows what there. Take a chance and see what else may be found on "doughnut.delish", then copy a username or profile/channel/community link you find there with a different place name like, "MadSodaScientist@chemical.soup" into the search for your place and try to follow it.

Okay, so that's a whole thing, and it's more involved than corporate social media where it's often just a click, but that's how the raw discovery tends to work around here because it's connecting different places. It's clunky and manual, but once you've done it, you've helped your place out by making sure others don't have to do that. It's often a thankless task, but so is much of finding things for strangers.

Also it's worth mentioning, sometimes it won't work in your place, because technology is complicated and hard and everyone's using it a little differently. It's always a little wonder any of this works even a quarter as well as it does, all things considering.

Some Discovery Resources
However, there's more to finding other stuff than that, because the point of all this is community, and that means you're not alone. There's a number of resources to help.

For link aggregators using Lemmy or similar, there's Lemmyverse, for finding communities to subscribe to. Not to mention there's a few communities in these places for announcing and promoting new ones, such as !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !community_promo@lemmy.ca.

For microblogging sites using Mastodon or similar, there's Trunk, Fediverse.info, and Fedi.directory. Also for trying to connect to groups across said sites, there's A.Gup.pe.

It's also commonly recommended to follow hashtags related to your interests, e.g. #SillyTech, but also it doesn't hurt to keep an eye on #FollowFriday. There's also FediFollows that posts regular lists of people and accounts they think may be worth following.

For video sites using Peertube, there's SepiaSearch, and streaming sites using Owncast, there's Owncast Directory.

And if you want to zoom out further, there's Fediverse.observer, where you can see a range of different places using different software to host their communities. It's a great way to explore even further afield.

Think that's all I have for now. Be kindweird, go strange places, share with others, and embrace confusion.

Toss in whatever else you think may be helpful that I'm forgetting/unaware of, keepin' with the attempt to stay on the lighter, non-technical side.

I really want to like Lemmy in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] Blaze@feddit.org 74 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Feel free to block communities with political content.

You can also use an app or alternative frontend to filter keywords. !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca has a post about that.

For communities, !newcommunities@lemmy.world can help

For home kit, the Apple communities are probably more active, and you should be able to post about it there too

US state propaganda is when you repeat easily verifiable facts about the Russo-Ukrainian War on .ml in c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

the main reason is because the people who run lemmy.ml are actually the people whi created lemmy.

Also welcome.

!newcommunities@lemmy.world and !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca are useful for new users.

Also if you’re looking for an instance that has ML defederatrd but is still well federated with everything else I recommend lemmy.cafe

Lemmy should have a community called lemmy_guess in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] ptz@dubvee.org 73 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I mean...

If you build it, they will come

Plan it out, spin it up, and then announce it at !newcommunities@lemmy.world or somewhere.

Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 137 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (18 children)

Welcome here!

Copy pasting from a recent thread on /r/RedditAlternatives trying to address usual criticism against Lemmy.

Federation is confusing, people want a single website they can go to

Email has been working on a federation model for decades. People have to remember if they use Gmail or Outlook, but that's it. It's similar here.

Several communities have the same name, it's confusing, active communities are hard to find

Reddit has a similar issue: you have /r/games as the main gaming community, but there is also /r/Gaming, /r/videogames /r/gamers, etc.

How does someone know what the main community is, whatever the platform? Looking at the number of subscribers and active members.

There was the example of beekeeping: if you search for that topic, the most active one is definitely https://mander.xyz/c/beekeeping with 97 users per month.

The others have barely 1 user: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=beekeeping

To find active communities: https://lemm.ee/c/newcommunities@lemmy.world. There are regular threads with active communities on topic such as gardening, movies, board games, anime, science, etc.

Who is going to pay for the server costs?

Here is a link to this question to Lemmy admins: https://lemm.ee/post/41577902

Summary of the answers:

  • lowest number so far: lemmy.ml with 0.03€ per user per month
  • a few others (feddit.uk, lemmy.zip) have around 0.11$ per user per month
  • some instances are running on infrastructure that the admins would be anyway, so it's virtually "free"

Most of the instances costs are paid using donations. They regularly post financial updates such as this one: https://lemm.ee/post/41235568

Obviously there is a sweet stop where you can minimize the cost by having the maximum number of users on a fixed infrastructure cost.

If you want to have a look at the number of monthly active user (the "MAU" column): https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/

Anyway, $ per user is usually meaningless because most of the servers are small enough to be hosted on some random cheap server - adding more users doesn't cost more because they are still well below server capacity. Only the biggest servers have to worry about $ per user.

I had posted this earlier this week on this thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1fiuuo5/how_much_does_it_cost_per_user_to_host_a_lemmy/

There is too much political content

You can block entire servers and specific communities.

Instances to block to avoid political content

Communities to block

With those blocked, you are avoiding 95% of the political content. There might be a few other communities that pop up, but blocking them is still one click away.

Lemmy is developped by hardcore tankies and I don't want to use their software

As Lemmy is federated using an open protocol, there are other options to connect to the communities without using Lemmy itself.

The first one is Piefed: https://piefed.social/c/newcommunities@lemmy.world

The other one is Mbin: https://fedia.io/m/newcommunities@lemmy.world

However, those are stil a bit less mature than Lemmy, so for instance if you want to use mobile apps a lot, Lemmy is a better choice.

On top of that, every Lemmy server is managed by different people. You can see regular criticism of lemmy.ml (the instance managed by the Lemmy devs) on threads such as this: https://lemm.ee/post/33872586 or even dedicated communities like https://lemm.ee/c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

That shows that even the Lemmy devs are not protected from criticism.

There isn't enough people

Lemmy has 46k monthly active users (https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats) (Mbin and Piefed have around 800 each). Active user is someone who voted, posted or commented.

In comparison, Discuit, which was praised during the API shutdown as "easier to use as it's centralized" has 234 active users: https://discuit.net/DiscuitMeta/post/KdiI1akq. Not 234k, 234 total.

For obvious reasons, the activity is not going to match Reddit levels, and niche communities aren't there.

But it's not an all or nothing situation. Most people on Lemmy still use Reddit for their niche communities, but are also active on Lemmy. And some niche communities are getting more active on lemmy. https://lemm.ee/c/newcommunities@lemmy.world (!newcommunities@lemmy.world ) promotes them.

Also, having less people provides better interactions, as your comments are less likely to get buried in thousands of others. And bots on Lemmy are quickly spotted and banned, while Reddit doesn't seem to do much about that: https://old.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1fmcelm/askreddit_is_simply_over_run_with_bots/

Reddit CEO Teases Paywalled Subreddits in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
600 more active users in the last few days, from 47225 to 47827 in two days in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 25 points 11 months ago

Which content are you interested in?

https://lemmit.online/ can be used to crosspost content from Reddit, but you won't get much comments as people tend to prefer content curated by humans

!newcommunities@lemmy.world has a weekly thread with active communities.

What are some unwritten rules of Lemmy most users don't know? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] Lemmeenym@lemm.ee 39 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

!newcommunities@lemmy.world helps. You can also post about them in related communities if the community rules allow and communities can partner with each other to link in community sidebars.

What do you think is a proper way to advertise a community on Lemmy? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
Is there a Lemmy community for finding other Lemmy communities? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
A message to new users in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
[–] otter@lemmy.ca 81 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

The list of apps is pretty out of date. For example, Boost already came out and !instance_assistant@lemmy.ca is a pretty popular extension. I use it a lot to make posts, and just used it to open that post on my instance.

Also related is how to find communities

I help with !communitypromo@lemmy.ca, and the idea is that you can subscribe to keep seeing more recommendations. We also have a guide for finding new communities here: https://lemmy.ca/post/5581032, which I've copied below:

A great way to find lesser known communities is to look at the /communities page on an instance. For example: https://lemmy.ca/communities

For a list of instances to look through:

  • pangora.social (NEW): Great way to find instances related to a particular topic. This is also great for picking an instance when first making an account/moving accounts.
  • awesome-lemmy-instances: not that organized, but it

🔎 Search pages

🔥 Apps and Browser Extensions

🙌 Communities for discovering new communities:

Here are some other communities, some of which are less active:

Remember, you can also post questions about finding new communities right here!

👽 Coming from Reddit?

https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/

Why is most content on Lemmy just old memes? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] chrisphero@lemmy.world 74 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (17 children)

Don’t use the “all” feed. I only use it to discover new communities (but there is also a specific community for that).

For my daily browsing I exclusively use the “subscribed” feed.

Edit: the community I mentioned is https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities@lemmy.world or !newcommunities@lemmy.world

I have just joined lemmy. What should I do next? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] Nemo@midwest.social 70 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Go to the communities page for your instance, set it to all, and scroll through the first several pages adding anything that sounds interesting. Don't worry if there are duplicates, sub them all. The search for any favorite topics and add those communities, too. Then browse by subscribed»new going forward.

You can also check out !newcommunities@lemmy.world for communities still getting off the ground.

Oh! And when linking, do it like I did above; this link works no matter what instance you're on.

How to promote a new instance? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a good question actually. there is !newcommunities@lemmy.world for communities, maybe you can reach out to them to see if you can also promote your server?

is there a community for finding communies? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Do you think Lemmy is going to cover niche topics like this someday? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 29 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Yeah it's tricky. I don't want to start a niche community cause i don't want to be a mod, but i guess maybe the best thing to do is start the community i want, pin a post saying "mods wanted", and post it to !newcommunities@lemmy.world

How do I properly promote a community? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

!newcommunities@lemmy.world for a proper link accessible from any instance.

List of popular communities you should visit! in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
What is the Lemmy.world equivalent of r/findareddit? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] Mir@lemmy.fmhy.ml 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

!newcommunities@lemmy.world

https://sub.rehab/

https://redditmigration.com/

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