My list of communities new users might consider, sorted in categories

An easily accessible list of communities with links and inputted descriptions from the op poster. edit: changed gaming community from beehaw to Lemmy.ml hopefully it'll be more easilly accessible.

tech/gaming news related communities:

[email protected] Keep up with the latest technology news
[email protected] Keep up with the latest fediverse updates
[email protected]
Linux content, could be news or something random
!gaming[email protected] Keep up with the latest gaming news content

fun and amusement communities:

[email protected] random pictures of food, could help inspire a meal. don't worry it is safe for work despite the potentially misleading name.
[email protected] ask whatever floats your boat to Lemmy users available to answer your questions.
[email protected] post or consume some wholesome material.
[email protected] a currated list of some of the best Lemmy content.

Lemmy help and support

[email protected] For if you're really really new to Lemmy.
[email protected] free costumer support for Lemmy?
[email protected] learn, discuss or ask about Lemmy apps.

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Nice little starter list for the techy folks, although I'd question the inclusion of a beehaw community since so many newbies are going to be unable to access that one and might get confused. Maybe a disclaimer or something, if you don't want to use a more available gaming community?
- OP's account is only 3 days old, they might not know that beehaw is defederated from a lot of instances.
  
  Good catch! In that case, also welcome OP 😄
- I appologise for the beehaw community, it did act a little weird as I was trying to link to it. Can someone explain why it wouldn't work like others, as i'm working on replacing it with another one.
  
  Basically what happened is Beehaw decided they'd rather be their own thing and defederated (essentially cut themselves off from) some of the biggest instances, including lemmy.world where your account is. So a very significant chunk of Lemmy users can't see activity from Beehaw users, and vice versa.
  
  What makes it confusing is that if you visit one of their communities from a defederated instance, there's no real indication that you're blocked. So it's just an unnecessary layer of complexity for newbies, was my worry.
  
  That said there are active gaming communities everywhere, search on https://lemmyverse.net/communities for "games" or "gaming" and there are plenty of results. I'm partial to [email protected] personally!
  
  That explains why that when I searched for it from Lemmy.world it still showed up. There does need to be indication if an instance is limited it shouldn't be up to users to just simply know, not everyone keeps up with the fediverse news or knows what the best news sources are yet for fediverse regarding things like this. A simple indication of pottential limitations of instance would solve this best.
  
  I've edited the post earlier with a different community for gaming.
  
  Yeah it's not ideal at all, one of many MANY improvements on the todo list I'm sure 😄

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