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It's small enough that just browsing all will actually show you all.

TBH I just stick to the feed and block the communities I don't want to see. Especially avoid anything on Hexbear or lemmy ml, those instances are CCP propoganda trying to convince the west to off each other and themselves.

Most niche communities from R*ddit are pretty much dead here unless you are looking forward to being a regular poster yourself. This rather requires sticking to the lemmy.world open feed rather than creating a custom feed with your communities only, if you are looking to scroll a lot instead, of course. Just stick around a bit, see how often what communities and people reach the general feed, elect to block the ones that feel flooding your feed or not to your taste. Maybe give some regularly-posted communities that are previously not in your area of interest some chance before going on a mass block. This place does have a quality and rather genuine people, but in a limited scope.

Lemmy is a lot smaller than reddit so its more acceptable to post niche content in more generic communities. That being said I really like

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When I moved over I searched for versions of all my reddit communities. Sadly, a lot of them are inactive, but I subbed anyway just in case. Then I went onto all and looked for the top handful that had stuff I liked. Now I mostly stick to my subscribed and flip over to all if I run out.

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And I know I've forgot some community.

Just browse all tbh

Welcome! There's a lot of actually good content on here if you avoid Hexbear and lemmy.ml.

I go back and anonymously browse Reddit sometimes and it feels plastic.

Hope to see you in [email protected]

Funny communities and news ones are usually found in generalist instances such as lemmy.world or lemmy.ml but the most interesting ones are on specialised instances.

The best way to discover them is to go directly to the instance and scroll a bit on the local thread or to go to the community page (ex: lemmy.ml/communities).
Then come back to your instance to visit again or follow the communities you liked.

There is geographically or language specialised instances such as :

• feddit.uk
• feddit.it and most probably
• feddit.[your country code]

but a few geographically/language specialised instances were creative with there name such as

• aussie.zone
• jlai.lu
• midwest.social

There is also subject oriented instances for example

• mander.xyz. Science oriented
• slrpnk.net. Solarpunk oriented
• lemmy.dbzer0.com. Allow content about piracy

and [email protected] is probably the most follow community on the lemmyverse.

You can find community directly from your instance page or from a browser like :

• browse.feddit.de
• lemmyverse.net

The browser helps you find community's names that were never connected to your own instance or specialised instance you didn't knew about.
When connecting for the first time type the url lemmy.world/c/[community's name]@[community's instance], you'll get an error but after refreshing the page you will have access to the community. But that's not new-comers friendly as you'll need another maneuvers to access post published before you connect your instance to the remote community. Still, if you are interested, I can explain you how to do it.

There is also politically oriented instances but some may be blocked by the administrators of your instance. You can check that on lemmy.world/instances.

Finally, if you want to test your options on Lemmy without spamming your favorite communities, you can do that here [email protected].

linuxmemes and the worldnews communities on both .world and .ml

It's good to have both because they bias against each other.

Welcome to Lemmy! 🤗This website has helped me find the most popular communities and niche communities from all over the fediverse https://lemmyverse.net/communities

I hope you have fun here!

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c/wizards

c/golincore

c/comicstrips

c/thefarside

Rather than particular communities, I tend to just do all - last 12 hours.

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!lemmyshitpost

!bertstrips

!the_pack

!shitty_million_dollar_ideas

For discovering new communities !trendingcommunities

And finally !newtolemmy

Sadly, Lemmy is too small to have many active niche communities of its own, so as already said your best bet is just viewing all.

Alongside this, viewing specific instances can give you a slightly more curated experience than just all of Lemmy.

Not to be too biased or anything, but I mod

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I also really like

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The userbases on all of these communities are a little smaller, but steady and the vibe is more positively authentic than Reddit alternatives.

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