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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]
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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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TIL a fleet of electric taxi cars was first introduced to London, UK in 1897 (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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We've gone full circle

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Wallpaper dump (2560x1600 / 1600p / WQXGA) (imgur.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Tash Sultana - Jungle (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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West African leaders activate standby force to put pressure on junta in Niger (www.theguardian.com)
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West African leaders activate standby force to put pressure on junta in Niger (www.theguardian.com)
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Niger: Former Nigerian emir of Kano meets the putschists (www.africanews.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2989944

One of West Africa's most prominent traditional and religious leaders flew to Niger's capital, Niamey, Wednesday to meet with the country's coup leaders.

The visit of the former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, came a day ahead of an ECOWAS regional summit Thursday in Nigeria to determine the bloc's response to Niger's junta's non-compliance with their deadline to free President Mohamed Bazoum.

Sanusi, a respected Tijanniyah Sufi spiritual leader and former Nigerian Central Bank governor, was able to meet coup leader Gen. Abdourahamane Tchiani, former head of Bazoum's presidential guard. What was discussed has not yet been disclosed.

Niger's new military junta has taken steps in recent days to entrench itself in power and has rejected international efforts to mediate, a day early blocking emissaries from the African Union, United Nations and ECOWAS from visiting Niger.

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Niger: Former Nigerian emir of Kano meets the putschists (www.africanews.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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One of West Africa's most prominent traditional and religious leaders flew to Niger's capital, Niamey, Wednesday to meet with the country's coup leaders.

The visit of the former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, came a day ahead of an ECOWAS regional summit Thursday in Nigeria to determine the bloc's response to Niger's junta's non-compliance with their deadline to free President Mohamed Bazoum.

Sanusi, a respected Tijanniyah Sufi spiritual leader and former Nigerian Central Bank governor, was able to meet coup leader Gen. Abdourahamane Tchiani, former head of Bazoum's presidential guard. What was discussed has not yet been disclosed.

Niger's new military junta has taken steps in recent days to entrench itself in power and has rejected international efforts to mediate, a day early blocking emissaries from the African Union, United Nations and ECOWAS from visiting Niger.

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Squabbles, another recent reddit alternative, seems to be taking the doomed "free speech" path (i.imgur.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Squabbles, another recent reddit alternative, seems to be taking the doomed "free speech" path by Madbrad200 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

honestly reading this, it just sounds to me like he isn't cut out for community management. It is stressful and hard sometimes, so I get it, but he's going to kill his own site doing this. I did wonder about this before - it seemed like to me he regularly made changes based on feedback on a whim, and these changes were often rushed without much thinking. Needs to know when to pass the baton elsewhere and stick to development, but alas...

The last comments also speak to someone who's probably hiding some contrarian views of his own.

Shame.

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Priscilla Ahn - Fine On The Outside (When Marnie Was Here outro) (www.youtube.com)
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A mythical giant snake is helping raise climate awareness in Malawi (africanarguments.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A mythical giant snake is helping raise climate awareness in Malawi (africanarguments.org)
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Aggressive much? by Madbrad200 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's depressing how much I see this apps data misread. I feel like DDG needs to implement some sort of disclaimer.

It is misleading for link aggregator apps - any link that you click on or preload that has trackers, will appear, hence why the numbers are so high. It's not Sync itself that's doing this, it's the content that gets posted here...

You will see something similar on any other link aggregator app.

The official reddit app now has more 1 star reviews than 5 star (edit: on the Play store) by Madbrad200 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago

4.8/5 on the apple store, Lol.

Can we have some clarification on what "Usage Data" the app collects and shares with advertisers? by Madbrad200 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago

Discord is a closed garden, it's awful for things like this.

Fellow pirates, what are some underrated websites and softwares that more people should be using by Madbrad200 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

Copying an older comment of mine,

Download qBittorrent. Download Jackett. Configure Jackett to work inside qBittorrent. You now have a way to search hundreds of trackers all at once within seconds and find literally anything you want.

Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down by Madbrad200 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago

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

What is the hype about Boost? by Madbrad200 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago

Honestly IMO it's a bit cringe for me that so many people are like, "fuck these Lemmy apps this [insert unreleased app] is amazing!".

Like calm down, lol. Let's see how it'll be first, a lot of the Lemmy apps are great right now.

Signed, a Reddit Boost user.

American media regularly censors the word ass but not the English word arse despite most Americans not knowing the difference is spelling not pronunciation. by Madbrad200 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

arse is 100% pronounced differently to "ass"

What is a website everyone should know about? by Madbrad200 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago

Well since we're on Lemmy....

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active&nsfw=null < the best way to find active communities and instances on Lemmy.

Advanced pirates, whats a tip others might not know? by Madbrad200 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 220 points 1 year ago

stop manually browsing torrent sites! You're wasting your time.

Download qBittorrent. Download Jackett. Configure Jackett to work inside qBittorrent. You now have a way to search hundreds of trackers all at once within seconds and find literally anything you want.

Reddit: Into the Fediverse by Madbrad200 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's not what Reddit is anymore, maybe if this idea was proposed 10 years ago they'd consider it, but it's just not an open space anymore.

Would be cool though

should locking and forced "merger" of communities be allowed? by Madbrad200 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago

personally I find the whole "duplicate" community thing a bit of a problem. New forums already struggle to maintain activity and this just compounds it by fragmenting them even further.

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