Some people have been asking which communities they should join first, so I posted some remote communities you can subscribe to on the sidebar on the homepage :)
Tech → !technology@beehaw.org
News → !news@beehaw.org
Gaming → !gaming@beehaw.org
Memes → !memes@sopuli.xyz
Privacy → !privacy@lemmy.ca
FOSS → !foss@beehaw.org
Monero → !monero@monero.town
Music → !music@beehaw.org
Books → !literature@beehaw.org
LGBT → !lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org
Nature → !greenspace@beehaw.org
Sports → !sports@beehaw.org
Programming → !programming@beehaw.org
Find another cool community? Leave a comment :)
There’s also this universal community search tool you can try using. If you find a community, just copy its URL and paste it in /search to subscribe to it here. This just goes to show that while there might not be many local communities here on lemmy.one yet, the beauty of the fediverse means that doesn’t matter!
I’m here from reddit, and thank you for these recommendations. Time for my neuroplasticity to kick in so I can learn how all this works.
Also here from Reddit. Lemmy actually feels like how Reddit *used *to feel in its early years, i.e. fresh community with fresh ideas. Love it!
Avoid beehaw
What don’t you like about it? I find Beehaw pretty great. The only thing I could think of is that they’ve defederated some of the larger instances, but it’s understandable given their content philosophy and the current state of moderation tools on Lemmy (really terrible).
Why?
They’ve defederated over 400 instances including lemmy.world, they want centralization
Good to know, thanks.
Just wanted to say, thanks for hosting this instance! I’m a reddit refuge and this Lemmy instance has been really straightforward on how to get started.
🪴 Plants
- Houseplants !houseplants@mander.xyz
- What’s this Plant? !plantid@mander.xyz
🏺 Archaeology & Related
- Archaeology !archaeology@mander.xyz
- Anthropology !anthropology@mander.xyz
- Folklore, Myths, Legends, & Fairy Tales !folklore@mander.xyz
🌎 Geography
- Geography !geography@mander.xyz
- Biodiversity !biodiversity@mander.xyz
- Earth Science/Geosciences !earthscience@mander.xyz
- Geospatial !geospatial@mander.xyz
- Historic(al) Map Porn !old_maps@mander.xyz
- Palaeoecology !palaeoecology@mander.xyz
🔬 Science
- Science Communication !scicomm@mander.xyz
Ya’ll gonna have to nerd out with me now. 😎
Memmy for iOS makes it super easy to find and join communities. Highly recommended.
How can I create some for lemmy.one?
We’re open for all!~
I was going down the universal search tool list, subscribing to the communities that I was interested in, and I ran into an issue trying to sub to some of the communities. Thankfully I was able to quickly find the answer - anything that is on the block list under https://lemmy.one/instances you are not able to subscribe to from this instance.
Glad to see that Lemmygrad is on the blocklist.
Does anyone know of any communities for pigeons or capybaras (or tbh any other weird-but-cute critters)?
Edit: adding some as I find them:
!trendingcommunities@feddit.nl is my goto for discovery, for anybody else who might be struggling to find communities
Found a few very small communities with just a few posts from the universal search tool, when I search for these (they are on other instances) I can’t find them. They are not on a blocked instance (both are on lemmy.ml), am I doing something wrong or is there some limit in size of community that are reachable through federation? Thanks, am very new to how the federation works in both Lemmy and Mastodon.
Click the copy icon to the right of the community name on the search tool, then go to https://lemmy.one/search and paste in the URL it copied, and the community should show up. If it doesn’t immediately show up: wait 30 seconds, refresh the search page, and try again, and then it will work.
This process needs to be easier, somehow. New users are going to search, see it doesn’t show up, assume everything is broken, and leave.
Thanks, this worked. I was searching “community@instance.tld” but they showed right up when I used full URL copied from the search tool.
That should work too, but maybe you need an ! at the beginning, like
!community@instance.tld
Is there any community having an Indian context?
I appreciate you taking the time to share! I’ve only messed with Mastodon briefly and the fediverse is a little challenging to navigate at first (in my opinion).
I’ve been a lurker on the subreddit for ages and when I saw your post I decided it was time to check Lemmy out. Thanks for taking the time to set up an instance to keeps the community alive as Reddit implodes. Hopefully this works out or at least can act as a temporary home until we can figure out what is next.
yes, very much appreciated!
Time to wait for the cat ones
https://lemmy.one/c/aww@lemmy.ml you mean?
Work Reform & Unionizing! - !workreform@lemmy.world
