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A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics)

2y 10mon ago by lemmy.world/u/Madbrad200 in newcommunities

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

  • Finding New Communities
  • 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
    • Transport
  • 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), general entertainment
  • Music

Finding New Communities

Aside from this post, searching Lemmyverse is good for finding communities. Also visit:

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

(see also Comics category)

Sport

Honestly there are so many sport communities around - if you search Lemmyverse for popular sports, you will almost certainly find more.

Transport

Nice/Interesting/Funny pictures

Animals

Literally just pictures of cute animals.

Comics

(see also Reading & Writing category)

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, general entertainment

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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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.

I'm surprised this doesn't clobber your existing subscriptions - I assume LASIM is smart enough to add the 'followed' list to what is already 'followed' rather than replace it?

LASIM author here - you are correct. I explicitly made it "additive" to avoid accidents where you could end up erasing a bunch of subscriptions. Right now LASIM only calls the subscribe API interface so it's actually impossible for it to unsubscribe you from anything.

I am considering adding a "destructive" sync in the future which, if toggled on, would unsubscribe you from anything not in the JSON file. But it's not implemented yet!

Correct, though I'd be careful about adding such a list unless you're certain you won't mind all of these communities being added to your subscription list.

The meme communities can overload your feed for example. Just a thought. Figured I'd add it anyway, they can easily be removed from the json before using it though so there is that.

I hadn't even considered this use case for LASIM, but that's really neat.

I've been thinking about a settings page where you can toggle what to sync, among a few other future features. I'll definitely add an option in the future to NOT sync the profile settings.

Yeah that would be great! Love the tool btw, I plug it whenever it's relevant

Sneak peek :)

LASIM 0.1.3

This is now released :)

For anyone finding this in the future:

The latest version of LASIM (0.2.1) has a Settings tab that allows you to choose what you want to upload.

If you are using the JSON file posted above, you'd want to choose just "Upload Community Subscriptions" on this tab so that your profile settings, etc. are not changed.

Thanks for sharing!

This is the exact reason I follow this community. You are so awesome for putting in the work!

CAN WE JUST AGREE ON ONE CFB SUB BEFORE THE SEASONS STARTS?!?!

Seriously, I need my toxic gameday threads.

There's a bunch more on Feddit.uk:

edit: trimmed down a bit

Honestly I avoided even looking for music communities for this list. After gathering a list of British music communities elsewhere, I couldn't bare to look again, Lol, but the music ones you mentioned are on that list.

Ah yes that's right - it's a great list, so much so I shared it to UK Music and we had a chat about festivals. Keep up the good work. 👍

Thank you! I automatically block political communities and also news (because it's mostly American shitfuckery) and I don't like seeing it, it makes me feel like shit. Thanks for posting up some great suggestions.

There is big homebrewing@sopuli.xyz community. Maybe add it too on rrredit it is 1mil+ subrredit.

I'm in shock the apex, the non plus ultra, the creme, the queen of all communities movie and tv related isn't listed! Oh, the humanity!

moviesandtv@lemmy.film

You're welcome! 🤭

added!

I love you.

@King Mongoose

Outstanding resource! Thanks for taking the time to assemble this!

Do you take suggestions for communities at all? I host some book related ones that are unrelated to those on there.

Feel free to link them here :)

libraries@literature.cafe & bannedbooks@literature.cafe

Oh hey there's a bunch more communities in my instance now, maybe link to some of em? I have a directory page 411@literature.cafe

This is exactly what I've been looking for, hoping to find something other than memes/news.
Another pretty active one is:
coffee@lemmy.world

added :)

Amazing dude, this definitely helps the community!

Not one of my communities made it 🥺

Just added a couple 😁

Thank you beautiful human! ❤

I think these can be useful Tech support techsupport@lemmy.world Products recommendations recommendations@lemmy.world Software recommendations softwareoptions@lemmy.world

This is awesome. I hope you guys don't mind, heres a link to one of the bigger pro-wrestling "subs" on the fediverse. It's on Kbin instead of Lemmy, but there's more than a few Lemmy users among us. Here's the link:

Squaredcircle

I'll add it!

lol Thanks :) Kbin, Lemmy, or Mastodon--it doesn't matter to me, as long as we're all working together to build something better than the last place.

You have bugmenagerie, but you missed awwnverts@lemmy.world.

Added.

Various other crafty hobby type communities listed at https://lemmy.world/post/1715954too, for anyone mostly interested in that category of thing.

52weeksofbaking@lemmy.world could use more engagement

It would be awesome if this became a monthly pinned thread.

bluey@lemmy.world -- one of the bigger TV show communities on lemmy.world

Added

Under hobbies, I run a community on gemstone faceting that I'm trying to get some traction on, can you add this to your list?

faceting@lemmy.world

added :)

maybe that's blatant self-advertising, but you might want to have a look at my origami community I created a few weeks ago (and if it isn't something for you, others might find it interesting)... no drama, no politics, just simple paper folding, I promise :)

Here's the link: origami@feddit.de

This is a great list. Note, though, that lemmyverse.net (and by extension, trendingcommunities@feddit.nl) are less useful at the current moment than before because lemmyverse needs an update before it can crawl the increasing numbers of instances on 0.19.4 or above.

Indeed

TV and film:

Terrariums@kbin.social would fit under hobbies.

I'm hoping in the future it can grow and expand to other communities like bioactive. It's one of the niche communities I miss from reddit.

I loved the reddit version of this! Would love to see it get a bit more activity

Cool! Thanks for adding dosgaming@retrolemmy.com!

This thread is exactly what I needed. Thanks!

Is there a dad community like daddit was on Reddit?

Daddit@kbin.social

Awesome, thanks, just joined

There is also: foraging@lemm.ee, for those interested in all sharing their experiences and findings when going foraging. Feel free to join now that the foraging season is starting again! 🍄🫐🌰

Also, thanks for sharing this list, added a bunch I was interested in 🙌

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

There's also psychedelic_artwork@psychedelia.ink and spirituality@psychedelia.ink on an instance I host if anyone is interested in those niches. But all in all this is a super amazing list thanks for taking the time to put it together!

Oooh thank you I love the spiritual quotes!!

Awesome! No problem!

I absolutely love psychedelic_artwork@psychedelia.ink, just subbed!

Hell yeah!

Really nice list 👍 appreciated

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

That's why I subscribed to a ton of communities! It's nice having a curated homefeed versus shifting through c/all

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

Save

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

Added! And yes I probably should honestly

Reading & Writing
Video Games
Comics
Board Games / Table top games

Added a couple of these :)

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

plantclinic@lemmy.world :)

This is amazing. Thank you so much!! You put a lot of work into this list. It's excellent. I'm bookmarking it. :)

Would be cool if lemmy communities could just tag themselves, so a directory like this could be automatically generated.. Maybe even just hashtags in the sidebar or something.

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

Nice one

Wait wait wait

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

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

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

Thank you for this list. I just moved from reddit where it has now become full of politics, bots, and toxicity. I miss the narwhal bacon days...

This list is more up to date: https://lemmy.world/post/25229405

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

Thanks so much for this! Been trying to replace the other site but it's been hard since most of the hot stuff on here is tech or politics (which is fine, but I don't want only that stuff haha)

Excited to find some new cool groups!

Absolutely outstanding contribution! Thank-you so much.

Can you please amplify:

Ehbuddyhoser@sh.itjust.works

For Canadian-centric shitposting

Thanks.

Sure.

Pretty much all communities on beehaw are active enough

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

Super helpful and really well organized—thanks a bunch!

Also memes: comedyheaven@lemmy.world

Reading/writing: worldbuilding@lemmy.ml

Just joined from the other site so thanks for this master post!

Could you please add

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

Thank you!

Could you please add movies@lemm.ee to the movies section?

There is also

that might interest people

Sure mate :)

Thanks!

Hiphopheads

hiphopheads@sopuli.xyz is already on here :)

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

I'm wondering where the NSFW is at!