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I know there are sites out there designed for finding Lemmy communities that aren't within your instance but it can be a difficult to find some more abstract ideas.

For example a community for goofy joke "million dollar" ideas like a gag gift for suburban moms that consists of divorce papers in a red frame that says "Break in case of emergency" or a gun that plays the Danny Phantom lines "He's a phantom" or "I'm going ghost" whenever you pull the trigger.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, see the guide here!

https://lemmy.ca/post/11285664

If you can't see the post on your instance, you can find it on [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Copying it below, but please see the link above for the latest updates


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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can I advertise a kbin-based community in any of these links?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

For sure! I think most of them should be perfectly fine for Kbin communities. I don't even notice the difference when I interact with the Kbin ones. I assume there may be some federation issues so maybe I'm not seeing all the Kbin content, but I can't tell otherwise

You can for sure advertise it in [email protected] because it's open to communities on any platform (source: me because I wrote that guideline πŸ˜„)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

There’s a bunch but I can’t find them

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

well, if you cant find it i think you're required to make it.

i like to surf active new queues, so when looking for new instances/ communities i sort by volume of active users (MAU) on fedidb.org and then again in the individual instances by posts in their community search. this gives a good idea of general activity type and volume on the instance.

if you really want to find those niche places that might not have much traction youre stuck using those fediverse search sites