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A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

[email protected] is already on here :)

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A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics) (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2216085

Searching Lemmyverse is good for finding communities. [email protected] is also a nice tool for finding new places.

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)! I will try to keep this thread updated over time.

Note: if you wish to auto-subscribe to all of the communities below, I have a post in the comments that describes how to do so.

My rough criterion was:

  • Of interest to me or a wide audience
  • Has a decent amount of activity
  • Casual / fun / interesting / cool / funny / chatty communities.
  • 0 negativity/negative vibes, news, politics, overload of tech or niche tech news/info, etc.

Directory

  • Conversation Communities - for chatty places
    • "ask" based
    • Casual chat / Misc
  • Hobbies, Creative, Passions
    • Misc
    • Artwork
    • Cooking, food, drinks
    • Gardening / Plants
    • Keyboard enthusiasts
    • Knitting, stitching, crocheting, etc
    • Reading and writing
  • Nice/Interesting/Funny pictures
    • Animals
    • Comics
    • Flags
    • Maps
    • Memes
    • Misc
    • Photography
    • Wallpapers
  • Games
    • Board games / Table top games
    • Chess
    • Crosswords / Daily games
    • Video games
  • Knowledge (e.g history, science, etc)
  • Space
  • TV (television, movies, film)
  • Music

Conversation communities

These are places that are 'chatty', good if you want a lot of comments.

"ask" based
Casual chat / Misc

Hobbies, Creative, Passions

Misc
Artwork

(see also the list under the Wallpapers header)

Cooking, food, drinks

Generally mostly nice pics of food:

Gardening / Plants
Keyboard enthusiasts
Knitting, Stitching, Crocheting, etc
Reading and 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.

Comics
Flags
Maps
Memes

Meme communities in general can overload your feed, so keep that in mind.

Misc
Photography
Wallpapers

Games

Board Games / Table top games

The ttrpg.network instance has a lot of communities based around table top gaming & RPGs.

Chess
Crosswords / Daily games
Video Games

Knowledge (e.g history, science)

Space

TV (television), movies, film

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.

There's also:

Previous

These communities have been removed from the list for not maintaining activity.

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A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sure mate :)

A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Pruned and updated this list a bit. Feel free to let me know about places worth adding.

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TIL a fleet of electric taxi cars was first introduced to London, UK in 1897 (en.wikipedia.org)
 

We've gone full circle

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A mythical giant snake is helping raise climate awareness in Malawi (africanarguments.org)
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TIL of Naba Baongo II, a sub-national monarch in Burkina Faso. In 2015, he played a key role in ending a military coup in the country peacefully, without any bloodshed. His kingdom is 528+ years old (en.wikipedia.org)
Infinity For Lemmy update just dropped. dev is really active in the community in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

meh, it's a bit shit if the original dev wants to make his own Lemmy app.

Infinity For Lemmy update just dropped. dev is really active in the community in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Worth noting it is not affiliated with the original dev. This guy forked it and took the name.

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TIL in the 17th century, the San people in Southern Africa created rock art depicting colonial ships and colonists following first contact (africanrockart.britishmuseum.org)
A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just added a couple 😁

A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Bonus: don't have time and want to just auto-subscribe to all (please note this isn't reversible without manually unsubbing yourself, there's a lot of niche communities here that may not appeal to you - you can remove them from the JSON file if needed)?

  • On PC, download this JSON file
  • On PC, download Lemmy Migration Tool (download the relevant .zip file)
  • Unzip folder, run file. Lemmy Migration Tool will now be open, like in this pic.
  • Note: in the Settings tab, you may wish to untick everything except Upload Community Subscriptions. Failure to do so may result in your Lemmy settings being changed.
  • Click the Upload tab. Then, enter your instance name and login details, click the upload button and upload the JSON file.
  • It'll automatically subscribe you to them all. If it looks like it's frozen, it hasn't. Just let it run. If you're on a small instance, you may need to re-run it a couple times (it can error if your instance hasn't discovered the community yet, this is solved on a rerun).

Of course, some may not be of interest or may overload your feed (meme communities can do this). Unsubscribe as needed.

I wrote this list for a curious person on the other site. It took me awhile, figured I'd share. Finding these places takes more time than I'd care to admit so... hopefully it saves you some, Lol. It's not an exhaustive list by any means, but is mostly places I find of interest and/or I think has good content. But there's definitely others out there I have missed (either intentionally or not). Lemmyverse is a great resource for finding new places.

My rough criterion was:

  • Of interest to me or a wide audience
  • Has a decent amount of activity, at least a single page worth of posts.
  • Casual / fun / interesting / cool / funny / chatty communities.
  • 0 negativity/negative vibes, news, politics, overload of tech or niche tech news/info, etc.
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A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics) (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
26 comments fedilink
 

Searching Lemmyverse is good for finding communities. [email protected] is also a nice tool for finding new places.

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)! I will try to keep this thread updated over time.

Note: if you wish to auto-subscribe to all of the communities below, I have a post in the comments that describes how to do so.

My rough criterion was:

  • Of interest to me or a wide audience
  • Has a decent amount of activity
  • Casual / fun / interesting / cool / funny / chatty communities.
  • 0 negativity/negative vibes, news, politics, overload of tech or niche tech news/info, etc.

Directory

  • Conversation Communities - for chatty places
    • "ask" based
    • Casual chat / Misc
  • Hobbies, Creative, Passions
    • Misc
    • Artwork
    • Cooking, food, drinks
    • Gardening / Plants
    • Keyboard enthusiasts
    • Knitting, stitching, crocheting, etc
    • Reading and writing
  • Nice/Interesting/Funny pictures
    • Animals
    • Comics
    • Flags
    • Maps
    • Memes
    • Misc
    • Photography
    • Wallpapers
  • Games
    • Board games / Table top games
    • Chess
    • Crosswords / Daily games
    • Video games
  • Knowledge (e.g history, science, etc)
  • Space
  • TV (television, movies, film)
  • Music

Conversation communities

These are places that are 'chatty', good if you want a lot of comments.

"ask" based
Casual chat / Misc

Hobbies, Creative, Passions

Misc
Artwork

(see also the list under the Wallpapers header)

Cooking, food, drinks

Generally mostly nice pics of food:

Gardening / Plants
Keyboard enthusiasts
Knitting, Stitching, Crocheting, etc
Reading and 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.

Comics
Flags
Maps
Memes

Meme communities in general can overload your feed, so keep that in mind.

Misc
Photography
Wallpapers

Games

Board Games / Table top games

The ttrpg.network instance has a lot of communities based around table top gaming & RPGs.

Chess
Crosswords / Daily games
Video Games

Knowledge (e.g history, science)

Space

TV (television), movies, film

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.

There's also:

Previous

These communities have been removed from the list for not maintaining activity.

spoiler

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TIL of Taos Pueblo, a Native American 'Pueblo' built between 1000CE and 1450CE, containing some of the oldest continuously inhabited houses still occupied in the US (en.wikipedia.org)
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It's the rain (lemmy.world)
 
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TIL in 1956, Malta had a referendum on whether or not it wanted to be fully integrated with the United Kingdom. 76% voted 'Yes'. The referendum result was ignored. In 1964 Malta gained independence (web.archive.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2003433

In February 1956, the proposals were put to a referendum, in which 75 per cent voted 'Yes'. However, owing to a boycott called for by the opposition parties (who felt that the proposals had been forced through) and the Roman Catholic Church (which saw its status threatened), only 60 per cent of the electorate came out to vote. There were reservations in Westminster that the Maltese MPs would be able to hold the balance of power in the House of Commons. In 1957, the closure of British naval docks had a devastating effect on the local economy (a quarter of the workforce was employed in defence related activities.) This effectively killed off the integrationist cause, and Mintoff's Labour Party espoused independence. Malta gained independence in 1964, becoming a republic within the Commonwealth a decade later.

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TIL in 2013, an Italian mafia "Ndrangheta" made more money than McDonald's and Deutsche Bank combined (€53bn / £44bn) (www.theguardian.com)
Alternative Discord client? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Worth noting that Aliucord relies on a very outdated version of Discord. Vendetta is worth using if you want the newer features to work well

Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes I know, the owners of lemmygrad/lemmy.ml created lemmy

Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

this is technically true, but it's not why lemmygrad, ran by full on communists, chose the .ml tld

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TIL of Supai, Arizona, the only place in the US where mail is still delivered by mules. The community has been referred to as "the most remote community" in the contiguous United States (en.wikipedia.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1898671

It is accessible only by helicopter, on foot or by mule. Supai is 8 miles (13 km) from the nearest road and has no automobiles in the community.

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TIL that following the Roman departure from Britain (410 CE), systematic construction of paved highways in the UK did not resume until the early 18th century (en.wikipedia.org)
 

After the Romans departed, systematic construction of paved highways in the United Kingdom did not resume until the early 18th century. The Roman road network remained the only nationally managed highway system within Britain until the establishment of the Ministry of Transport in the early 20th century.

Is there a Decentralised Spotify / Music Platform Alternative? in c/[email protected]
Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah same thing, they were created by the same people

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