cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2216085

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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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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Conversation communities

These are places that are 'chatty', good if you want a lot of comments.

"ask" based

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Casual chat / Misc

• [email protected] - casual chat community. Worth noting that the instance (and likely most users) are Malaysian.
• [email protected]
• [email protected] (chat about things you carry everyday)
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Hobbies, Creative, Passions

Misc

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• [email protected] (gemstone cutting)
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Artwork

(see also the list under the Wallpapers header)

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• [email protected] - for artists to share their own work, more amateur than the others
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• [email protected] - Lord of the Rings/Hobbit related art
• [email protected]
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Cooking, food, drinks

• [email protected]
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Generally mostly nice pics of food:

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Gardening / Plants

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
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Keyboard enthusiasts

• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Knitting, Stitching, Crocheting, etc

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Reading and Writing

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Sport

Honestly there are so many sport communities around - if you search Lemmyverse for popular sports, you will almost certainly find more.

• [email protected]

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Nice/Interesting/Funny pictures

Animals

Literally just pictures of cute animals.

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Comics

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• [email protected]
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Flags

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Maps

• [email protected]

Memes

Meme communities in general can overload your feed, so keep that in mind.

• [email protected] (lgbt memes)
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
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• [email protected] (stargate memes)
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• [email protected] (uk memes)
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• [email protected] (metal music memes)
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• [email protected] (star trek memes)
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• [email protected] (star trek memes)
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Misc

• [email protected] - awful real estate photos, has a decent amount of comments
• [email protected] - posts from Mastodon users. Mostly memes and funny pics.

Photography

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• [email protected] - really cool photography pics
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Wallpapers

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Games

Board Games / Table top games

The ttrpg.network instance has a lot of communities based around table top gaming & RPGs.

• [email protected]
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Chess

• [email protected] (funny chess)
• [email protected]

Crosswords / Daily games

• [email protected] (daily crosswords)
• [email protected]

Video Games

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected] (more conversation based than the others)
• [email protected]
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• [email protected] (more news based)
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Knowledge (e.g history, science)

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
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Space

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
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TV (television), movies, film

• [email protected]
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• [email protected]
• [email protected] (note: covers science fiction across media, e.g games, tv, books, etc)
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

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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.

• I made a fuller list of British music genres/communities/artists here (e.g grime, dnb, jungle, uk hh, idm, rock/metal/punk, etc)

There's also:

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Previous

These communities have been removed from the list for not maintaining activity.

spoiler

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We've gone full circle

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.

>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.