Community discovery communities
newcommunities@lemmy.world - New Communities - A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
communitypromo@lemmy.ca - Community Promo - Promote your favourite communities and ask about communities that you are looking for!
trendingcommunities@lemmy.cafe - Trending Communities - Daily post by a bot highlighting trending communities.
lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com - Lemmy Directory - This community has bots making regular posts showcasing best content from communities in given categories to help promote them.
findacommunity@lemmy.ml - Find a Community - A community to find other communities in any of the Lemmy instances.
Community and instance discovery tools
Lemmy Explorer -A tool to search and filter for communities or instances. You can change the software in the top left to switch to PieFed Explorer or Mbin Explorer (I believe there are plans to have a combined search in the future)
Fediverse Observer - Find a Lemmy instance near you, or view instance lists, maps, or stats. Can also be used with other Fediverse software including PieFed and Mbin.
Some Fediverse software, including Mbin, Friendica, and Mastodon, uses # tags to help with discovery on the microblogging side. Mastodon also treats community names as tags in a given post, e.g. posts in both fediverse@lemmy.world and fediverse@piefed.social having the # fediverse tag when propagating to there.
Communities for other questions
lemmy@lemmy.ml - Questions about Lemmy software/development
piefed_help@piefed.social - Questions about Piefed software/development
nostupidquestions@lemmy.world - Questions about any topic that you need help with
asklemmy@lemmy.world - Open-ended questions to prompt discussion
For support with a specific instance (e.g. login/account issues, requests to mod), check in your instance's local communities to see if there is a help/support community, such as support@lemmy.world for lemmy.world
The above was compiled to try to share active communities and resources to help with discovery. Some inactive communities were excluded, but could be added if they become active again. Please leave a comment if you want to add anything, or have any suggestions!
Dunno if it'd be quite the scope of the post, but some Lemmy-adjacent engines (Friendica and Mbin afaik) support tags, often used by microblogging for discoverability. Mastodon also treats community names as tags in a given post, e.g. posts in both fediverse@lemmy.world and fediverse@piefed.social having the # fediverse tag when propagating to there.
How to Join Lemmy and Find and Subscribe to Communities
3y 23d ago by lemmy.ca/u/tezoatlipoca in lemmy411@lemmy.caI'm looking for tech communities that are not specifically about AI but also not fanatically opposed to AI
9h 4m ago by feddit.uk/u/ReCursing in lemmy411@lemmy.caIs there a community like r/serendipity?
1mon 8d ago by lemmy.world/u/droning_in_my_ears in lemmy411@lemmy.caCommunity for sharing creative game worlds?
1mon 17d ago by lemmy.world/u/otacon239 in lemmy411@lemmy.caCommunities for support and chat regarding personality disorders?
3mon 23d ago by piefed.ca/u/BinzyBoi in lemmy411@lemmy.caCommunities where I can send in manga covers and people can send me where they find it to read online?
4mon 4h ago by lemmy.world/u/MeowerMisfit817 in lemmy411@lemmy.caCommunity for discussing solar power setups, getting started, planning, etc.
4mon 1d ago by startrek.website/u/IcedRaktajino in lemmy411@lemmy.caLooking for small foam adhesive disks, single-sided (pictures included)
5mon 8d ago by sh.itjust.works/u/Apytele in lemmy411@lemmy.caCommunities where I can ad a friend's dubbing project so new people can join it.
5mon 10d ago by lemmy.world/u/MeowerMisfit817 in lemmy411@lemmy.caA community where I can send an APK link and ask if it's safe, no malwares.
5mon 17d ago by lemmy.world/u/MeowerMisfit817 in lemmy411@lemmy.caIs there a place I can find people considered "weird"?
5mon 19d ago by thelemmy.club/u/may_be in lemmy411@lemmy.ca
[SOLVED] "KISS KISS BANG BANG" song I can't find the original no matter what I put on my search engine.
5mon 23d ago by lemmy.world/u/MeowerMisfit817 in lemmy411@lemmy.ca
Where can I find this image without the text and the button?
5mon 25d ago by lemmy.world/u/MeowerMisfit817 in lemmy411@lemmy.ca
Where can I find this book archived to read? Amazon says unavaliable and I can't find it anywhere.
5mon 28d ago by lemmy.world/u/MeowerMisfit817 in lemmy411@lemmy.caIs there a community where it's appropriate to post ttrpg character concepts and ask for feedback?
6mon 17d ago by fedia.io/u/can_you_change_your_username in lemmy411@lemmy.caComunities to talk about animations
7mon 10d ago by lemmy.world/u/MeowerMisfit817 in lemmy411@lemmy.caThe opposite of a rant
7mon 3d ago by swg-empire.de/u/bjoern_tantau in lemmy411@lemmy.caLooking for communities to ask for recomendedations
8mon 7d ago by lemmy.world/u/x4740N in lemmy411@lemmy.caask lemmy subreddit for political questions?
8mon 14d ago by lemmy.world/u/x4740N in lemmy411@lemmy.caSignal messenger community (not on lemmy.ml and blahaj.zone)
9mon 2d ago by lemmybefree.net/u/Electricd in lemmy411@lemmy.caAny active text-only adult communities?
10mon 6d ago by lemmy.zip/u/Cricket in lemmy411@lemmy.caWhere should I go to request to become the new moderator for a Lemmy.World community, whose moderator hasn't been active?
10mon 8d ago by lemmy.world/u/TehBamski in lemmy411@lemmy.caGeneral-purpose recipe-sharing community
10mon 1d ago by lemmy.ml/u/communism in lemmy411@lemmy.caIs there a conan exiles community on here?
11mon 14d ago by lemmy.world/u/x4740N in lemmy411@lemmy.caAuditing
11mon 15d ago by lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/SlyLycan in lemmy411@lemmy.caAny community related to Menieres, Vertigo, Hearing Loss, etc?
11mon 27d ago by mander.xyz/u/thicksliceham in lemmy411@lemmy.ca/c/BadMensAnatomy - about mis-/disinterpretation of male human body, similar to BadWomensAnatomy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
11mon 1d ago by thebrainbin.org/u/hankskyjames777 in lemmy411@lemmy.caIs there a community where I could share my favorite Japanese music discoveries once a month?
1y 9d ago by sh.itjust.works/u/ElPsyKongroo in lemmy411@lemmy.caLooking for a community just for Minecraft art builds
1y 1mon ago by lemmy.world/u/HoneyMustardGas in lemmy411@lemmy.caI'm looking for a community that's like /r/translator on Reddit.
1y 2mon ago by lemmy.ml/u/Web_Rand in lemmy411@lemmy.cacommunity to request consumer goods advice?
1y 2mon ago by lemmy.sdf.org/u/grysbok in lemmy411@lemmy.caIs there a community to request help around paywall access
1y 2mon ago by lemm.ee/u/AcidicBasicGlitch in lemmy411@lemmy.ca/r/UNBBBBIIVCHIDCTIICBB (UNBGB male version)
1y 2mon ago by thebrainbin.org/u/hankskyjames777 in lemmy411@lemmy.caIs there a community for learning how to spot bot activity on social media?
1y 2mon ago by lemm.ee/u/AcidicBasicGlitch in lemmy411@lemmy.caIs there a community to receive feedback on a song that I made?
1y 3mon ago by lemmy.world/u/HoneyMustardGas in lemmy411@lemmy.caIs there a community for discussing solutions to societal issues?
1y 3mon ago by feddit.nl/u/green in lemmy411@lemmy.caIs there a community for morbid questions ?
1y 3mon ago by lemm.ee/u/x4740N in lemmy411@lemmy.caIs there a community for virtual machine discussion?
1y 3mon ago by lemm.ee/u/ALostInquirer in lemmy411@lemmy.car/ehbuddyhoser?
1y 4mon ago by sh.itjust.works/u/CowsLookLikeMaps in lemmy411@lemmy.caA community for Lemmy comments
1y 4mon ago by sh.itjust.works/u/RmDebArc_5 in lemmy411@lemmy.cacommunitypromo@lemmy.ca to discover active communities
1y 4mon ago by feddit.org/u/Blaze in lemmy411@lemmy.caTangara /c/?
1y 4mon ago by infosec.pub/u/TheButtonJustSpins in lemmy411@lemmy.caA community for good ideas
1y 5mon ago by lemmy.world/u/HoneyMustardGas in lemmy411@lemmy.caa community to post political pics / current events pics
1y 5mon ago by lemmy.world/u/robocall in lemmy411@lemmy.caAre there any communities where I can ask for people with newspaper subscriptions to donate paywalled articles?
1y 6mon ago by lemmy.ca/u/hellfire103 in lemmy411@lemmy.caAre there any communities along the topic of practical DIY, 'Today/Recently I learnt to do''?
1y 7mon ago by lemmy.sdf.org/u/Achyu in lemmy411@lemmy.ca
[Meta] (Link in title) The list of mapped communities, for mods of this community to look in if users are asking for subr*ddit equivalents
1y 8mon ago by thebrainbin.org/u/hankskyjames777 in lemmy411@lemmy.ca from fediverser.networkLemmy communities for movie and TV show recommendations
1y 8mon ago by lemm.ee/u/x4740N in lemmy411@lemmy.caI would like a Things I Like community
1y 9mon ago by programming.dev/u/connect in lemmy411@lemmy.ca