A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics)
A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics)
Searching Lemmyverse is good for finding communities. !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl 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.
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
- 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
Conversation communities
These are places that are 'chatty', good if you want a lot of comments.
"ask" based
- !asklemmy@lemmy.ml
- !asklemmy@lemmy.world
- !askmeanything@lemmy.ca
- !askouija@lemmy.world
- !askscience@lemmy.world
- !askuk@feddit.uk
- !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Casual chat / Misc
- !cafe@monyet.cc - casual chat community. Worth noting that the instance (and likely most users) are Malaysian.
- !casualconversation@lemm.ee
- !edc@sopuli.xyz (chat about things you carry everyday)
- !frugal@lemmy.world
- !mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
- !nostalgia@lemmy.ca
- !showerthoughts@lemmy.world
- !streetwear@lemmy.world
- !ukcasual@lemmy.world
- !yurop@lemm.ee
Hobbies, Creative, Passions
Misc
- !3dprinting@lemmy.world
- !faceting@lemmy.world (gemstone cutting)
- !imadethis@lemm.ee
- !lego@lemmy.world
- !tabletopminis@lemmy.world
- !wetshaving@sub.wetshaving.social
- !woodworking@lemmy.ca
Artwork
(see also the list under the Wallpapers header)
- !ai_art@lemmy.world
- !albumartporn@lemmy.world
- !artshare@lemmy.world - for artists to share their own work, more amateur than the others
- !artporn@lemm.ee
- !apocalypticart@discuss.tchncs.de
- !cybermoe@ani.social
- !digitalart@lemmy.world
- !imageai@sh.itjust.works
- !imaginary@reddthat.com
- !imaginarycosmere@sffa.community
- !imaginarydragons@leminal.space
- !imaginarystarships@lemmy.world
- !imaginarywarhammer@lemmy.world
- !hobbit_art@hobbit.world - Lord of the Rings/Hobbit related art
- !psychedelic_artwork@psychedelia.ink
- !traditional_art@lemmy.world
Cooking, food, drinks
- !castiron@lemmy.world
- !cocktails@lemmy.world
- !coffee@lemmy.world
- !cooking@lemmy.world
- !espresso@infosec.pub
- !homebrewing@sopuli.xyz
- !recipes@feddit.uk
- !sourdough@lemmy.world
- !veganrecipes@sh.itjust.works
Generally mostly nice pics of food:
Gardening / Plants
- !gardening@lemmy.world
- !houseplants@mander.xyz
- !mushrooms@lemmy.world
- !mycology@mander.xyz
- !succulents@midwest.social
Keyboard enthusiasts
Knitting, Stitching, Crocheting, etc
- !amigurumi@lemmy.world
- !crochet@lemmy.ca
- !knitting@lemmy.world
- !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works
- !sewing@lemmy.world
- !sewingrepairing@sh.itjust.works
- !quilting@lemmy.world
Reading and Writing
- !books@lemmy.ml
- !comics@lemmy.ml
- !comicbooks@lemmy.world
- !eurographicnovels@lemm.ee
- !keepwriting@lemmy.world
- !writingprompts@lemmy.world
Sport
Honestly there are so many sport communities around - if you search Lemmyverse for popular sports, you will almost certainly find more.
Nice/Interesting/Funny pictures
Animals
Literally just pictures of cute animals.
- !aww@lemmy.ml
- !aww@lemmy.world
- !awwnverts@lemmy.world
- !bats@lemmy.world
- !beebutts@lemmy.world
- !birding@lemmy.world
- !bugmenagerie@possumpat.io
- !bugs@lemmy.world
- !cat@lemmy.world
- !cats@midwest.social
- !dogs@lemmy.world
- !foxes@lemmy.world
- !illegallysmolcats@lemmy.world
- !quackers@lemmy.world
- !squirrels@lemmy.ca
- !superbowl@lemmy.world
- !spiders@lemmy.world
- !wildlifephotography@lemmy.world
Comics
- !comicstrips@lemmy.world
- !cyanideandhappiness@lemm.ee
- !nathanwpyle@lemmy.world
- !thefarside@sh.itjust.works
- !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org
- !xkcd@lemmy.world
Flags
Maps
Memes
Meme communities in general can overload your feed, so keep that in mind.
- !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone (lgbt memes)
- !adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- !animalswithjobs@lemmy.world
- !anime_irl@ani.social
- !animemes@ani.social
- !antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world
- !best_of_mastodon@sh.itjust.works
- !bikinibottomtwitter@lemmy.world
- !boneappletea@lemmy.world
- !chevron7@lemmy.world (stargate memes)
- !curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works
- !dnd_memes@lemmy.world
- !fakehistoryporn@lemmy.world
- !foundsatan@lemmy.world
- !funny@sh.itjust.works
- !funny@lemmy.ml
- !funny@lemmy.world
- !greentext@sh.itjust.works
- !grimdank@lemmy.world
- !historymemes@kbin.social
- !lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world
- !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
- !lotrmemes@midwest.social
- !me_irl@lemmy.world
- !memes@midwest.social
- !memes@lemmy.ml
- !memes@lemmy.world
- !memes@sopuli.xyz
- !memes@feddit.uk (uk memes)
- !meow_irl@sopuli.xyz
- !metalmemes@lemmy.world (metal music memes)
- !microblogmemes@lemmy.world
- !okmatewanker@feddit.uk
- !programmer_humor@programming.dev
- !raccoons@lemmy.world
- !relationshipmemes@lemmyis.fun
- !risa@startrek.website (star trek memes)
- !rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
- !science_memes@mander.xyz
- !simpsonsshitposting@sh.itjust.works
- !starwarsmemes@lemmy.world
- !tenforward@lemmy.world (star trek memes)
- !tumblr@lemmy.world
- !trippinthroughtime@lemmy.ca
- !witchymemes@lemmy.world
Misc
- !badrealestate@feddit.uk - awful real estate photos, has a decent amount of comments
- !tails@lemmon.website - posts from Mastodon users. Mostly memes and funny pics.
Photography
- !abandonedporn@reddthat.com
- !abstractphotography@lemmy.ml
- !accidentalrenaissance@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !analog@lemmy.world - really cool photography pics
- !bewowed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- !castles@lemm.ee
- !cozy_places@lemmy.world
- !earthporn@lemmy.ml
- !hiking@lemmy.world
- !natures_patterns@lemmy.world
- !oldschoolcool@lemmy.world
- !pics@lemmy.world
- !streetphotography@lemmy.world
- !travelphotography@lemmy.world
Wallpapers
- !animewallpapers@ani.social
- !mobilewallpaper@lemmy.world
- !wallpapers@lemmy.world
- !wallpapers@lemmy.ca
Games
Board Games / Table top games
The ttrpg.network instance has a lot of communities based around table top gaming & RPGs.
- !boardgames@feddit.de
- !dnd@lemmy.world
- !dndnext@ttrpg.network
- !jrpg@lemmy.zip
- !osr@lemm.ee
- !rpg@ttrpg.network
Chess
- !anarchychess@sopuli.xyz (funny chess)
- !Chess@lemmy.ml
Crosswords / Daily games
- !crossword@lemmy.world (daily crosswords)
- !dailygames@lemmy.zip
Video Games
- !dosgaming@retrolemmy.com
- !games@lemmy.world
- !gaming@lemmy.ml
- !gaming@lemmy.zip
- !nintendo@lemmy.world
- !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works (more conversation based than the others)
- !pcgaming@lemmy.ca
- !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world
- !pokemon@lemmy.ml
- !retrogaming@lemmy.world
- !steam@lemmy.ml
- !steamdeck@lemmy.ml (more news based)
- !steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
- !virtualreality@lemmy.world
Knowledge (e.g history, science)
- !archaeology@mander.xyz
- !biodiversity@mander.xyz
- !digitalbioacoustics@lemmy.world
- !history@lemmy.world
- !historyporn@lemmy.world
- !interestingasfuck@lemm.ee
- !interestingasfuck@lemmy.world
- !longreads@sh.itjust.works
- !palaeontology@mander.xyz
- !science@lemmy.ml
- !science@lemmy.world
- !til@lemmy.world
- !wikipedia@lemmy.world
Space
- !astronomy@mander.xyz
- !astrophotography@lemmy.world
- !perseverancerover@lemmy.world
- !space@lemmy.world
TV (television), movies, film
- !anime@lemmy.ml
- !bluey@lemmy.world
- !bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world
- !futurama@lemmy.world
- !marvelstudios@lemmy.world
- !movies@lemm.ee
- !movies@lemmy.world
- !moviesandtv@lemm.ee
- !moviesuggestions@lemmy.world
- !television@lemmy.world
- !quarks@startrek.website
- !scifi@kbin.social
- !sciencefiction@lemmy.world (note: covers science fiction across media, e.g games, tv, books, etc)
- !startrek@startrek.website
- !star_wars@lemmy.world
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:
- !80smusic@lemmy.world
- !90smusic@lemmy.world
- !classicrock@lemmy.world
- !dancehall@lemmy.world
- !guitars@lemmy.world
- !guitarpedals@lemmy.world
- !hiphopheads@sopuli.xyz
- !kpop@lemmy.world
- !music@lemmy.world
- !popheads@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
- !ska@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !thelyricsgame@lemmy.ca
- !vgmusic@lemmy.world
Previous
These communities have been removed from the list for not maintaining activity.
spoiler
- !AccidentalRenaissance@kbin.social
- !amoledbackgrounds@lemmy.world
- !asktheworld@lemm.ee
- !apocalypticart@feddit.de (migrated to !apocalypticart@discuss.tchncs.de)
- !battlemaps@lemmy.world
- !battlemaps@sh.itjust.works
- !battlemaps@ttrpg.network
- !cats@lemmy.world
- !casualconversation@lemmy.world (migrated to !casualconversation@lemm.ee)
- !cyberpunk@lemmy.villa-straylight.social
- !dailydoseofcute@lemmy.world
- !daystrominstitute@startrek.website
- !deserts@lemmy.world
- !dollhouse@lemmy.world
- !earthporn@lemmy.world
- !filmposterporn@lemmy.world (community was deleted/removed)
- !fountainpens@wayfarershaven.eu
- !gardening@thegarden.land
- !gatze@feddit.de
- !giftofgaming@lemmy.world
- !greentext@lemmy.ml
- !history@kbin.social
- !HistoryArtifacts@kbin.social
- !illegallysmolbirbs@mander.xyz
- !interesting@feddit.de
- !jellyfish@lemmy.world
- !jwst@lemmy.world
- !lasercutting@lemm.ee
- !moviesandtv@lemmy.film
- !nature@lemmy.world
- !occultmemes@lemmy.world
- !oddlyspecificplaylists@sh.itjust.works
- !old_maps@mander.xyz
- !pf2general@pathfinder.social
- !pictures@aussie.zone
- !pixelpassport@lemm.ee
- !pottery@lemmy.world
- !raining@sh.itjust.works
- !ramen@lemmy.world
- !reclaimedbynature@lemmy.world
- !reggae@lemmy.world
- !rpggreentext@ttrpg.network
- !shiba@lemmy.world
- !sideoftheroad@possumpat.io
- !space@kbin.social
- !spacepics@lemmy.world
- !SquaredCircle@kbin.social (migrated to !squaredcircle@lemmy.zip)
- !strassenfotografie@feddit.de
- !stonermemes@lemmy.beyondcombustion.net
- !veganhomecooks@lemmy.world (migrated to !homecooks@vegantheoryclub.org)
- !undergroundhiphop@lemmy.world
- !weddings@lemmy.world
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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
Settingstab, you may wish to untick everything exceptUpload Community Subscriptions. Failure to do so may result in your Lemmy settings being changed. - Click the
Uploadtab. 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.
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?
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!
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.
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.
Yeah that would be great! Love the tool btw, I plug it whenever it's relevant
Sneak peek :)
This is now released :)
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.
