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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  • Condiment2085@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    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!

  • thulesgold@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    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…

  • Apex_Fail@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

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

    Seriously, I need my toxic gameday threads.

  • naught101@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    11 days ago

    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.

  • Madbrad200@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    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.