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

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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Madbrad200
lemmy.world

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.
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freamonreply
endlesstalk.org

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?

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CMahaffreply
lemmy.world

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!

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Madbrad200reply
lemmy.world

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.

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CMahaffreply
lemmy.world

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.

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Madbrad200reply
lemmy.world

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

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CMahaffreply
lemmy.world

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.

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rocker
kbin.social

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

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Apex_Fail
lemmy.world

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

Seriously, I need my toxic gameday threads.

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ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝reply
feddit.uk

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. 👍

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nfntordr
lemmy.world

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.

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King Mongoose
lemmy.film

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!

[email protected]

You're welcome! 🤭

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gabe [he/him]
literature.cafe

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

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TellumSiege
kbin.social

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

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TellumSiegereply
kbin.social

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.

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Crylos
lemmy.world

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?

[email protected]

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cosmoscoffee
feddit.de

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: ![email protected]

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Andrew
piefed.social

This is a great list. Note, though, that lemmyverse.net (and by extension, ![email protected]) 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.

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alwaysconfused
lemmy.ca

![email protected] 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.

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Madbrad200reply
lemmy.world

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

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Sips'
slrpnk.net

There is also: ![email protected], 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 🙌

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trimmerfrost
lemm.ee

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

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Madbrad200reply
lemmy.world

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

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RBWells
lemmy.world

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

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Brekky
lemmy.world

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

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naught101
lemmy.world

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.

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thulesgold
lemmy.world

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...

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Condiment2085
lemm.ee

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!

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Madbrad200
lemmy.world

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

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hairyfeet
lemmy.ml

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

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