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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 4 months ago) by Madbrad200@lemmy.world to c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
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Searching Lemmyverse is good for finding communities. !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl 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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[-] trimmerfrost@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I really really hate the polarised politics, Elon Musk hatred and web integrity thing that gets showered here day in and day out. Honestly I'm tired of blocking the communities and users of that type

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[-] b000urns@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Really nice list 👍 appreciated

[-] gladflag@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Save

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

May I propose c/cocktails be added under cooking, or food? And those should probably be consolidated. Thanks.

[-] Madbrad200@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Added! And yes I probably should honestly

[-] james1@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
Reading & Writing
Video Games
Comics
Board Games / Table top games
[-] Madbrad200@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Added a couple of these :)

[-] Brekky@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

There's also plantclinic but I don't know how to type the whole address!

[-] Madbrad200@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

!plantclinic@lemmy.world :)

[-] biscoot@lemmy.getmeotter.work 3 points 1 year ago

Great list. Thanks for putting it together! Will definitely sub to a bunch here

[-] CoffeeDev@lemmy.studio 2 points 1 year ago

This is a great list of communities! Nice to see that !illegallysmolbirbs@mander.xyz made it on here.

[-] qnick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'd appreciate if you added !narrow@lemmy.world to the knowledge section

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[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Absolutely outstanding contribution! Thank-you so much.

[-] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Wait wait wait

Start wars memes hasn't already split between prequels and sequels?

[-] Madbrad200@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

technically, !prequelmemes@lemmy.world and !prequelmemes@lemmy.ml exist, the first one is relatively active.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the note on Faceting there. I read the community name and was like "face ting? Ooooh. Face ting!"

[-] Madbrad200@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

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

[-] small44@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Hiphopheads

[-] Madbrad200@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

!hiphopheads@sopuli.xyz is already on here :)

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[-] Ginrai@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] DudePluto@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Also memes: !comedyheaven@lemmy.world

Reading/writing: !worldbuilding@lemmy.ml

[-] reillypascal@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Super helpful and really well organized—thanks a bunch!

[-] ginerel@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty much all communities on beehaw are active enough

[-] Madbrad200@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They're still defederated from lemmy.world unfortunately, so 🤷‍♂

[-] Leviathanos@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I'm wondering where the NSFW is at!

[-] pencilled_robin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Amazing list, thanks for sharing it! Don't suppose you could add !football@lemmy.world? Would love to get some more activity over there.

[-] hairyfeet@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Got anything for DIY, plumbing/carpentry etc... please?

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