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I'm noticing an influx of Reddit users today, maybe revolving around their weird bug they had today. I know this question pops up semi regularly, but for those just getting their foot in the door maybe we can help show them what else is out here on the Fediverse to help them get started.

I'll kick us off, to any newcomers, I help run the following communities, and we'd welcome you to any of them. (Shameless self promotion I know, but I hope more people join in sharing theirs as well)

For help and support, taken right from the sidebar of AskLemmy here

An important one to kick off, we do have an entire community just for this over at [email protected] (https://lemmy.ca/c/communitypromo) for a more long-running conversation

For new users, I hope you find some communities that you enjoy! For current users, share your favorite communities that new folks may be interested in! (Please use both the !@_ notation and give a link, to help our new fediverse people out in learning how it works)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I'll never pass up a chance to promote [email protected] (Owls, not the NFL thing)

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's always nice to see some jokes stick around, I hope when I die this is still a joke. (No sarcasm either, I truly love it and how much it annoys some people)

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Wow, didn't know this was a thing. I was watching What They Do in the Shadows recently and there's a Superbowl episode.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Does it actually annoy people? Wow, that makes it even funnier.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I already subscribed to those feathery fowls the first day I joined :-)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also endose this recommendation!

[email protected] has everything for your owl related needs!

Love cats? Try owls, the cats of the sky!

We've got cute owls, angry owls, stern owls, and silly owls.

White, brown, red, grey, big, medium, and small!

Find out where to meet owls or how to get started working with owls.

If you want hard science or fluffy photos, [email protected] has got it, and if we don't have it, we'll get it!

We're pretty consistently in the top trending communities for a niche group, and there's an ever growing number of fans checking in daily.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Come on down to to Anon6789's Outrageous Owl Emporium on 100th st!"

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Lol it's a slow day at work, what can I say? ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey, admin of programming.dev here

Heres a nice selection of communities from various of the topic instances including ours that might be nice for most people

  • [email protected] - mander is the science and nature instance with this being one of their main communities
  • [email protected] - main community for the programming.dev instance which is the instance for programming
  • [email protected] - main community for the lemmy.zip instance which has most of the game communities so far in lemmy
  • [email protected] - community that just got started up in programming.dev where you can post any software malfunctions you come across
  • [email protected] - main community in lemdro which is focused primarily around android

edit, heres some more:

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not a specific community, but check out everything on mander.xyz if you haven't yet. Lots of great science related communities on there. It's already a pretty active instance but would love to see the communities on there get even more love.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Good rec, the mander.xyz stuff is great.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Wow I had no idea this entire instance existed, and there's some heavy following too, I'll definitely be subbing to some of those communities

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

A community for EMS professionals that I manage and desperately want to see more activity in:

[email protected] (https://lemm.ee/c/ems)

A community for sharing spooky stories, doesn't matter if they're true or not:

[email protected] (https://lemm.ee/c/rag_and_bone)

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

funny how one of the most popular subs in reddit still don't have a vary active community in lemmy. Will sub for hope

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh cool, subbed to the spooky one!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Had to look up what "EMS" is, it's not referred to as this in my country and your "about" section didn't provide any more description - you might get more international users if you use a more general term like "emergency service workers" or "ambulance" or something like that

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

https://lemmy.world/c/tvtoohigh

Has sooo much potential. I can feel the memes flowing through it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

gotta promote [email protected] for industrial, goth, and adjacent music styles!?!!

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Copy-pasting my usual response to these threads:


I'm legally obliged to shill the various crafting communities, my two most used are [email protected] and [email protected] but you can find lots more in the sticky thread in either of those.

Then there's also [email protected] which has been a bit quiet lately so if you've made something, go show it off!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

You made me click on [email protected]

Not disappointed.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm a mod of !startpages (https://kbin.social/m/startpages), which is all about the startpage/new tab page that resides in your browser. Right now It only has a few posts, so it'd be great to have some more users.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plz add a ! Infront so I can click on those in sync เผผ ใค โ—•_โ—• เผฝใค

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To mods here at !asklemmy, I know this is on the edge of rule 3 and 4, I'm seeing a lot of newbie questions though and was hoping this could head off a thousand new posts of users asking what and how to use lemmy. Actually, I'm going to add some of that to the post.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Other communities to subscribe to for more of this

[email protected] (for new users to ask any questions, including communities)

[email protected] (same purpose as this post)

[email protected] (for brand new communities as they're made)

Edit: oops you already linked some of this, thanks for making the post!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[email protected] is a pretty great community if you're into movies and tv. It's where a lot of the regulars from [email protected] went after the lemmy.film instance was shut down.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for helping out the newbees by making this post.

Also shamless plug https://sh.itjust.works/c/machinist

A community about machining, and other various trade and manufactoring shenniagans.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Shameless plug for a community that I moderate because we need more folks!

[email protected]

We even have a bot that posts the scores and basic stats of each NHL game.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[email protected]

We need more people so we can properly talk shit

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I want to suggest [email protected] , or [email protected] (general topic discussion that's been kind of inactive), [email protected], and other just general chat communities across servers that aren't memes and shitposts, just to give people a low bar of entry to talk about how they feel, what's going on in their lives (to the extent they wish to share).

Someone looking for general advice, share something cool that isn't yet part of any community (but it could help start one), ask a question that they feel isn't a good fit for asklemmy, newbs and forum veterans can talk about their experiences. I think it can foster contributions from power-posters, occasional posters, commentors and lurkers alike and grow the Lemmyverse organically.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I started a fantasy basketball community here for anyone interested. I try to share helpful articles I find and plan to do more if it grows.
[email protected]

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I'm going to shamelessly plug the community I just made for Ambigrams.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[email protected] cool shitposting sublemmit hahaha memes aaaaa

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