cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2216085
Search Lemmyverse is good for finding communities.
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)!
Conversation communities
These are places that are 'chatty', good if you want a lot of comments.
"ask" based
- !asklemmy@lemmy.ml
- !asklemmy@lemmy.world
- !askmeanything@lemmy.ca
- !askscience@lemmy.world
- !asktheworld@lemm.ee
- !askuk@feddit.uk
- !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Casual chat / Misc
- !cafe@monyet.cc - casual chat community. Worth noting that the instance (and likely most users) are Malaysian.
- !casualconversation@lemmy.world
- !frugal@lemmy.world
- !showerthoughts@lemmy.world
- !ukcasual@lemmy.world
- !weddings@lemmy.world
Hobbies, Creative, & Passions
Misc
- !3dprinting@lemmy.world
- !dollhouse@lemmy.world
- !faceting@lemmy.world (gemstone cutting)
- !imadethis@lemm.ee
- !lasercutting@lemm.ee
- !pottery@lemmy.world
- !tabletopminis@lemmy.world
- !woodworking@lemmy.ca
Artwork
- !ai_art@lemmy.world
- !albumartporn@lemmy.world
- !artshare@lemmy.world - for artists to share their own work, more amateur than the others
- !artporn@lemm.ee
- !digitalart@lemmy.world
- !filmposterporn@lemmy.world
- !imageai@sh.itjust.works
- !hobbit_art@hobbit.world - Lord of the Rings/Hobbit related art
- !psychedelic_artwork@psychedelia.ink
- !traditional_art@lemmy.world
Cooking, food, drinks
- !castiron@lemmy.world
- !cocktails@lemmy.world
- !coffee@lemmy.world
- !cooking@lemmy.world
- !homebrewing@sopuli.xyz
- !recipes@feddit.uk
- !sourdough@lemmy.world
Generally mostly nice pics of food:
Gardening / Plants
Keyboard enthusiasts
Knitting, Stitching, Crocheting, etc
- !amigurumi@lemmy.world
- !crochet@lemmy.ca
- !knitting@lemmy.world
- !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works
- !sewing@lemmy.world
- !sewingrepairing@sh.itjust.works
- !quilting@lemmy.world
Reading & 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.
- !aww@lemmy.ml
- !aww@lemmy.world
- !awwnverts@lemmy.world
- !birding@lemmy.world
- !bugmenagerie@possumpat.io
- !bugs@lemmy.world
- !cat@lemmy.world
- !cats@lemmy.world
- !cats@midwest.social
- !dailydoseofcute@lemmy.world
- !foxes@lemmy.world
- !gatze@feddit.de
- !illegallysmolcats@lemmy.world
- !illegallysmolbirbs@mander.xyz
- !quackers@lemmy.world
- !shiba@lemmy.world
- !spiders@lemmy.world
- !wildlifephotography@lemmy.world
Comics
Flags
Maps
Memes
Meme communities in general can overload your feed, so keep that in mind.
- !animalswithjobs@lemmy.world
- !best_of_mastodon@sh.itjust.works
- !greentext@lemmy.ml
- !historymemes@kbin.social
- !lotrmemes@midwest.social
- !memes@lemmy.ml - note: this will 100% overload your feed.
- !memes@lemmy.world
- !memes@sopuli.xyz
- !memes@feddit.uk (uk memes)
- !meow_irl@sopuli.xyz
- !metalmemes@lemmy.world (metal music memes)
- !microblogmemes@lemmy.world
- !occultmemes@lemmy.world
- !programmer_humor@programming.dev
- !relationshipmemes@lemmyis.fun
- !risa@startrek.website (star trek memes)
- !rpggreentext@ttrpg.network
- !rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
- !science_memes@mander.xyz
- !starwarsmemes@lemmy.world
- !stonermemes@lemmy.beyondcombustion.net
- !trippinthroughtime@lemmy.ca
- !witchymemes@lemmy.world
Photography
- !abandonedporn@reddthat.com
- !accidentalrenaissance@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !AccidentalRenaissance@kbin.social
- !analog@lemmy.world - really cool photography pics
- !bewowed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- !castles@lemm.ee
- !cozy_places@lemmy.world
- !deserts@lemmy.world
- !earthporn@lemmy.ml
- !earthporn@lemmy.world
- !hiking@lemmy.world
- !nature@lemmy.world
- !oldschoolcool@lemmy.world
- !pictures@aussie.zone
- !pixelpassport@lemm.ee
- !raining@sh.itjust.works
- !reclaimedbynature@lemmy.world
- !travelphotography@lemmy.world
Games
Board Games / Table top games
The ttrpg.network instance has a lot of communities based around table top gaming & RPGs.
note: the battlemaps communities seem to mostly cross-post between eachother at the moment.
- !boardgames@feddit.de
- !battlemaps@lemmy.world
- !battlemaps@sh.itjust.works
- !battlemaps@ttrpg.network
- !dndnext@ttrpg.network
- !osr@lemm.ee
- !rpg@ttrpg.network
Video Games
- !games@lemmy.world
- !gaming@lemmy.ml
- !gaming@lemmy.zip
- !giftofgaming@lemmy.world
- !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works (more conversation based than the others)
- !pcgaming@lemmy.ca
- !retrogaming@lemmy.world
- !steamdeck@lemmy.ml
- !virtualreality@lemmy.world
Knowledge (e.g history, science)
- !archaeology@mander.xyz
- !biodiversity@mander.xyz
- !digitalbioacoustics@lemmy.world
- !history@lemmy.world
- !history@kbin.social
- !HistoryArtifacts@kbin.social
- !historyporn@lemmy.world
- !interestingasfuck@lemmy.world
- !longreads@sh.itjust.works
- !palaeontology@mander.xyz
- !science@lemmy.ml
- !science@lemmy.world
- !til@lemmy.world
Space
TV (television), movies, film
- !bluey@lemmy.world
- !daystrominstitute@startrek.website - in-depth conversations about Star Trek
- !moviesandtv@lemmy.film (very active community for all things movies & TV)
- !television@lemmy.world
- !sciencefiction@lemmy.world (note: covers science fiction across media, e.g games, tv, books, etc)
- !startrek@startrek.website
- !star_wars@lemmy.world
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.
- I made a fuller list of British music genres/communities/artists here (e.g grime, dnb, jungle, uk hh, idm, rock/metal/punk, etc)
There's also:
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It's less of an issue than it used to be but it's likely still true if you aren't subscribed to many communities; the large meme sublemmies (e.g !memes@lemmy.ml) get a disproportional amount of posts, & posts that are highly upvoted, which leads to them dominating feeds. It doesn't help that Lemmy's "hot" and "Active" feeds just aren't that good at diversifying content.