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
      7·
      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
        14·
        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.

        • DrQuint@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          People posted saying they’d support the protest, so the mods locked down. Then they made a poll and the comments were almost exclusively against while the votes were split, so calls of manipulation and astroturfing were rampant because people couldn’t actually believe there were people in favor of the protest.

          I would agree that they didn’t care either way, and tried going with the flow. The mods basically acted, ah… What’s the word… Something like “pussy-whipped” but with Reddit users as the instigator? The “comments” made demands and they acquiesced every time then acted confused that there was no consistency with those comments and lots of anger then aimed at them. Which honestly, probably matches up with what they do day-to-day. I appreciate the esports match discussion and summary threads, but overall, the actual acts of moderation is extremely hands off and lenient towards things like xenophobia and whatnot. I wonder what actually happens in that subreddit’s mod queue and if half those people are even around. Outside of 3 people, their presence has taken a nosedive since the days ReaverXai was around.

          It was not the time to be so hands-off. It was not the time to tell people “oh just go on the pepe-emoji infested discord that not even us ourselves have used in 7 years, it’ll be fine”. It was the time to take a stance one way or another, the time to investigate alternatives and list them on the frontpage. The time to restrict the sub and filter comments from newer acoounts, or the time to stay open and declare you don’t think the cause will work. Something. Anything.

          • Azzu@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Yeah idk, there is of course a nice sentiment to do what the community wants, but it really looked like the mods had no opinion at all.

            I really wonder what kind of mindset is behind there. I have multiple theories but nothing definite.

  • ugh@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    Could you remove the spaces for people who aren’t browsing from .world?

  • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
    English
    23·
    1 year ago

    Why the duplicate communities? My understanding was it shouldn’t matter where I subscribe to “games” the posts should be the same.

    • Yote.zip@pawb.socialEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      The posts are different on each server. They are effectively separate communities with separate names, counting the server as part of its name.

      • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
        English
        27·
        1 year ago

        Which is stupid imho. I don’t want to sub to 10 different /c/movies or even 2 different /c/nba. Mark my words you’re going to see a consolidation here if this takes off and you’re going to lose the federation appeal that people want (I couldn’t care less just want a Reddit alternative). Already I’ve unsubbed from communities to simply sub to the biggest one.

        Let’s also ignore there’s an open issue from 2 years ago because no one apparently thought or cared of the scenario that some of us actually like a unified identity online and yet you can’t port your account across the fediverse.

        https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1985

        • Zeth0s@reddthat.com
          English
          3·
          1 year ago

          If it is so important for you to be so much outraged, I guess it is time for you to either learn to code and open a PR, or to pay someone to do it for you!

          • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
            English
            04·
            1 year ago

            I know how to code don’t have the time. It’s potential I may look into it. Doesn’t change the fact that it’s two glaring issues that weren’t thought through and there’s many more that have been brought up.

            • Zeth0s@reddthat.com
              English
              8·
              1 year ago

              So you know the reason those issues are still opened. There are only 2 paid developers for the whole thing, backend, front end, Android app… Everyone else, as you, don’t have time. We need to accept it and live with it

              • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
                English
                21·
                1 year ago

                You know I’m on this platform too? It’s completely acceptable to be critical and bring up those flaws without a need to make excuses. I understand there may be mitigating reasons that doesn’t make it more ok. Also, it is not “up to me alone” to fix these issues.

                I am simply highlighting glaring concerns and I encourage everyone else to also do so. The alternative is to do as you say and “just accept it” which quite frankly is a shit way to live life.

            • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eeEnglish
              4·
              1 year ago

              I get that you’re angry the new thing doesn’t work exactly the same as the thing you were used to. But take a deep breath, and remember they are in fact different things with their own pros and cons. Everything’s changing at a rapid rate. Some features you want will make it in, some features you want probably won’t, but there are ways to respectfully make and contribute to feature requests and have some small part in guiding the project in the direction you’d like to see.

        • gelberhut@feddit.deEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          Not sure about “stupid”, but agree - most probably we will see consolidation in the future. This is rather usual scenario in general.