I assume !newcommunities@lemmy.world is for just that, and promoting new instances is unacceptable there. Where is an appropriate place to advertise a new instance?

Asking for one that is not my own. Decentralization is cool and I literally just found out about the existence of https://fanaticus.social/, a sports instance, from checking the !olympics@sh.itjust.works sidebar. I'd like to help this sports instance get attention and bolster its existing communities. I don't know where to go besides finding big preexisting sports communities and mentioning its existence there.

Yesterday I posted about rss.ponder.cat, with communities automatically fed from a selection of RSS feeds. Today I made !meta@rss.ponder.cat, with:

• A sticky-post roadmap of the RSS feeds that are already available
• A place for people to request communities to be added
• A place for me to post announcements about new communities

I don't plan to spam !newcommunities@lemmy.world with every new RSS feed, but I figured I would let people know the location of the community that will get announcements about new RSS feed communities, in case they want to subscribe to it.

Cheers!

We all know that content discoverability can be challenging on Lemmy.

!newcommunities@lemmy.world is a space dedicated about new and active communities.

We started a weekly thread yesterday about active communities (the requirement is to have at least one post in the last week), feel free to have a look at it and see if there are communities that might interest you!

This community has also been highlighted on Lemmy.world to increase its visibility

Hello,

As everybody knows, content discovery on Lemmy can sometimes be a bit tricky.

To help smaller communities to get more activity, I launch this thread for people to promote the communities they are active one.

One important criteria: please only promote communities that have been at least one post in the last 7 days. And if there is none, feel free to post there and then promote it here!

This could be a weekly thread, but let's see how it goes

Finally, !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca are communities that you can subscribe to to see updates about communities

Perhaps after some amount of time having announced themselves over in !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca, or...I don't know if there are communities for instances (the fediverse communities, presumably?), but likewise for them?

The combination of a promotional space and discussion for helping grow communities/instances could help ensure there's always some activity keeping this community visible to those seeking help.

Copying over the guide from !communityPromo@lemmy.ca so it's more accessible here

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🙌 Communities for discovering new communities

Stay subscribed to these to learn about more communities passively

• !communitypromo@lemmy.ca (alternate link)

  • Promote your favourite communities here
  • Ask about a community you are looking for &nbsp

• !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl (alternate link)

  • Regular posts with ALL the trending communities from across the threadiverse

• !newcommunities@lemmy.world (alternate link)

  • Learn about communities that are new / being rebooted

• !communityspotlight@lemmy.world (alternate link)

  • We pick two communities a week (one lemmy.world, and one from another instance) to highlight each week

• Other communities, some of which are less active:

  • !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca (alternate link)
  • !lemmy411@lemmy.ca (alternate link)
  • !findacommunity@lemmy.ml (alternate link)

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🌐 Instances to look through

You can find communities from specific instances

A great way to find lesser known communities is to look at the /communities page on an instance. Different instances may have different themes or focuses, and so you can find related communities that way.

For example: https://lemmy.ca/communities

• pangora.social: Great way to find instances related to a particular topic. This is also great for picking an instance when first making an account/moving accounts.
• awesome-lemmy-instances

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🔎 Search Engines

When you have a topic in mind, but don't know if a community exists for it

• https://lemmyverse.net/communities
• https://browse.feddit.de/ (run by feddit.de)

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🔥 Apps and Browser Extensions

These can make it easier to find, subscribe, and manage communities on different instances

• Instance Assistant: Browser extension with tools to help you redirect and search for communities
• Voyager Migrator: Tool to help you migrate Subreddits
• Other apps: https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/

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👽 Coming from Reddit?

See here

• sub.rehab: You can sort by official replacements & sister communities
• redditmigration.com: List from the migration
• quippd.com: Another list created by a user during the migration

Whenever I try to view the threads page of newcommunities@lemmy.world (i.e., https://kbin.social/m/newcommunities@lemmy.world), I get an error. It's only kbin.social where this happens, and it's only the threads page of this specific community. I can view the microblogs, the people, and even individual threads, but the threads page throws an error for some reason. Any idea what's causing this?

Hola a todos, Hago esta pregunta porque me intriga. Si nos fijamos en otros países e idiomas europeos, parece que les va bien: https://feddit.it/, https://jlai.lu/, https://feddit.nl/, https://feddit.de/, etc.

Aquí, casi nadie. ¿Tenéis alguna idea de por qué? Ya he intentado hablar de la comunidad en !europe@feddit.de et !newcommunities@lemmy.world pero por lo visto no es suficiente.

We're getting quite a few new users, so I thought it might be a great time to write some quick-start guide. This post will stay pinned for a week or so, afterwards it will be linked from the sidebar.

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Right now you're on Lemmy, a federated platform for discussion and link aggregation.

What's the federation thing you're reading about everywhere?

That's a fancy name for a protocol that makes it possible for all Lemmy servers to interact with each other - that means you can read content from other servers here on lemmings.world.

Does that mean that I can log in to any server with my account?

Nope, your account is tied to the server you created it on. But that doesn't restrict you from commenting on posts on different servers, creating posts in communities on different servers, or subscribing to communities on different servers. In fact, that's the whole point of federated platforms!

> Note that each server first needs to know that a community exists before it can fetch its posts. That happens when someone from the server subscribes to the community for the first time. If no one subscribed to a particular community, you won't see it in the "All" feed. But hey, you can always be the pioneer and be the first to subscribe.

How do I find communities?

You can always use the search at the top. You can also use the various communities for sharing communities:

• !lemmy411@lemmy.ca - general community for asking where to find a community
• !newcommunities@lemmy.world - a community where mods post about a new community they have created

And you can use https://lemmyverse.net/communities - a brilliant service which indexes all known Lemmy communities regardless of what server they're on.

> Tip: Set your home instance (lemmings.world if you've registered here) on Lemmyverse.net using the home button in the top right corner - all community links will point correctly to your instance.

How do I link to other communities on Lemmy?

You may have noticed already, but the format is !community_name@lemmy_server.tld. For example !wwdits@lemmings.world. This is similar to using r/subreddit_name on Reddit. In the same way, you can mention users like this: @rikudou@lemmings.world. Note that this will also notify the user that they have been mentioned.

> Some frontends don't render the user link correctly, sadly that's the case for the official one. In that case you have to use a little bit of markdown to help: [@rikudou@lemmings.world](/u/rikudou@lemmings.world) which will be rendered like this: @rikudou@lemmings.world. Note that if you only want to tag someone, just writing @username@server.tld is enough, the markdown thing is only if you want to make sure the user link is clickable for all users.

Frontends? What's that?

Aside from the official Lemmy frontend at https://lemmings.world there are also alternative frontends written by different people. All those frontends display the same data, they just have different ways to go about it. A sad fact remains that all of them look better than the official one, so I advise you to use a different frontend.

On Lemmings.world you can find these frontends:

• https://a.lemmings.world - a frontend called Alexandrite and my personal favorite
• https://p.lemmings.world - a frontend called Photon, another great and popular option
• https://old.lemmings.world - a frontend inspired by old Reddit

Mobile apps

There are many, many apps for your phone, whether you have an Android or an iPhone. There's even a separate community for them: !lemmyapps@lemmy.world. My personal favorite is Eternity (!eternityapp@lemdro.id) for Android.

NSFW

If you're here for that juicy NSFW, there are two Lemmy servers for that (lemmynsfw.com, pornlemmy.com) and pretty much all porn communities are there. Due to the federated nature, you can of course subscribe to their communities from lemmings.world. If, on the other hand, you don't want to see any NSFW, in your account settings you can check that you don't want to see any NSFW. If you see any untagged NSFW, please report it.

Bots

When you're at the settings page, you may notice two bot related settings: Bot Account and Show Bot Accounts. The first one marks your own account as a bot and the other can be used to disable seeing all bot posts and comments on Lemmy. It's completely up to you, but there are many useful ones. I run three such bots:

• @ChatGPT@lemmings.world - just mention the bot in a comment and it will reply to it.
• @autotldr@lemmings.world - automatically creates TL;DR for linked articles from supported sites
• @CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world - many people use URLs (like https://lemmings.world/c/wwdits) instead of the community name to link them, which doesn't work for people on different instances - if someone from a different instance clicks the link, they won't be logged in to their account and can't comment. This bot replies with the corrected link

While you can disable all bots in the settings, in my opinion it's better to block them individually - you might for example dislike ChatGPT but find automatic TL;DRs useful, so you can simply just block the ChatGPT bot.

Glossary

Defederation

You'll most likely hear this term sooner or later. It means that one instance's admin(s) decide that they don't want to see the content of another instance. The reason might be arbitrary, but on well-meaning instances (like this one) it's usually because of some serious reasons: hate speech, child sexual abuse material (CSAM), spamming other instances and so on. You can check the code of conduct this instance uses to defederate with other instances. We use Fediseer to manage our blocklist, you may view the reason for each defederation there.

> If you don't see some of the instancse we've defederated from on Fediseer, that's because one of the other instances we trust has marked it as containing CSAM or loli content

Fediverse

You might hear this term around. Lemmy isn't the only platform that uses the federated protocol (called ActivityPub) for federation with others. There are for example Mastodon (similar to Twitter), Kbin (has sections similar to both Twitter and Reddit), but also Bookwyrm (Goodreads alternative) and so on. These all services are collectively called Fediverse. Some of them can interact with each other (like Lemmy and Kbin), some of them can interact only a little (like Mastodon with Lemmy, but not Lemmy with Mastodon) and some of them not at alll (like Lemmy and Bookwyrm). Over time the integration with other Fediverse services will get better and better.

> You might also sometimes see the term Threadiverse for services like Kbin, Lemmy and others similar to Reddit.

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That's all I can think of for now, if you have any questions, feel free to ask!

🙌 Communities for discovering new communities

Stay subscribed to these to learn about more communities passively

!communitypromo@lemmy.ca (alternate link)

• Promote your favourite communities here
• Ask about a community you are looking for

!trendingcommunities@feddit.nl (alternate link)

• Regular posts with ALL the trending communities from across the threadiverse

!newcommunities@lemmy.world (alternate link)

• Learn about communities that are new / being rebooted

!communityspotlight@lemmy.world (alternate link)

• We pick two communities a week (one lemmy.world, and one from another instance) to highlight each week

Other communities, some of which are less active:

• !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca (alternate link)
• !lemmy411@lemmy.ca (alternate link)
• !findacommunity@lemmy.ml (alternate link)

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🌐 Instances to look through

You can find communities from specific instances

A great way to find lesser known communities is to look at the /communities page on an instance. Different instances may have different themes or focuses, and so you can find related communities that way.

For example: https://lemmy.ca/communities

• pangora.social: Great way to find instances related to a particular topic. This is also great for picking an instance when first making an account/moving accounts.
• awesome-lemmy-instances

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🔎 Search Engines

When you have a topic in mind, but don't know if a community exists for it

• https://lemmyverse.net/communities
• https://browse.feddit.de/ (run by feddit.de)

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🔥 Apps and Browser Extensions

These can make it easier to find, subscribe, and manage communities on different instances

• Instance Assistant: Browser extension with tools to help you redirect and search for communities
• Voyager Migrator: Tool to help you migrate Subreddits
• Other apps: https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/

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👽 Coming from Reddit?

See here

• sub.rehab: You can sort by official replacements & sister communities
• redditmigration.com: List from the migration
• quippd.com: Another list created by a user during the migration

Asking this to the general audience because that's a comment I've seen quite a lot recently.

So, let's start with a list of communities that could be interesting to a wide audience, sorted by monthly active users (MAU), the most active being on top.

• !moviesandtv@lemmy.film (1.6k MAU)
• !casualconversation@lemmy.world (521 MAU)
• !personalfinance@lemmy.ml (453 MAU)
• !fiction@literature.cafe (140 MAU)
• !gardening@thegarden.land (133 MAU)
• !relationship_advice@lemmy.world (130 MAU)
• !recipes@lemmy.world (69 MAU)
• !parenting@lemmy.world (56 MAU)
• !skincareaddiction@sh.itjust.works (31 MAU)
• !longreads@sh.itjust.works (24 MAU)
• !malefashionadvice@lemmy.world (12 MAU)
• !femalefashionadvice@lemmy.world (9 MAU)

Those numbers may seem low, but remember that those are active users, who at least commented or posted in the last month. So even if you are afraid to be shouting to the abyss, there will be other people next to you to keep the ball rolling.

Also, please note that those communities are suffering from the current tedious discoverability of new content on Lemmy. I'm hoping to make them more popular with this post, as I'm sure those are topics that can interest a lot of people.

Another thing to keep in mind is that Lemmy cannot replace 18 years of content creation overnight. It will take time for those communities to grow to the same level of content and activity than there counterpart, but with a bit of time, we'll get there.

In addition, there are a few places to look out for new communities.

The first place to look for is https://lemmyverse.net, but Lemmy.world communities are currently excluded for some reason (https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer/issues/139).

A second place is this community: !newcommunities@lemmy.world. People tend to promote their communities there, you can also ask for a community you are looking for.

Finally, !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl provides a daily report of communities becoming popular.

It was lagging the instance quite a bit, and really isn't necessary given the amount of active users we have now and the communities already federated in.

If you want to see new communities that might not be federated yet though, per usual feel free go to https://lemmyverse.net or !newcommunities@lemmy.world

57k active users on Lemmy, Casual Conversation seems a pretty common topic, and still there aren't that many people around here.

I posted on !newcommunities@lemmy.world , we are probably the most populous community with this name.

Maybe it's because LemmyWorld communities do not appear on Lemmyverse.net any more?

What do you think could be the issue?

The answer to this would be good to include in the sidebar so people would have a better idea what’s ok to post.

Epic music is its own genre, but it can also be used to describe music more broadly - music from other genres that evokes a feeling of awe or other strong emotion.

The, uh, other place’s epic music community describes it this way:

“Music that speaks to the soul either lyrically, melodically, instrumentally, aurally, rhythmically, vocally, technologically, emotionally, temporally, or in some other profound way.” (a broad definition that would encompass multiple genres)

What kind of music would you like this community to focus on?

EDIT:

I just came across ascallion's post on !newcommunities@lemmy.world from 2 months ago where they described it as Cinematic music that speaks to the soul.

That description answers my question.

So, to explain in more detail: I read about a new community on newcommunities and I decided to search for it so that it started federating with Kbin.

However, when I visit the community on lemmy.world, there are already 32 posts from before the community became visible on kbin, but I can only see the posts that were made after I "discovered" the community on Kbin.

Lemmy.CapeBreton uses lcsbot to auto-subscribe to the top communities on most of the major lemmy instances out there.

That's been working for us so far but we recognize that you may not find something to scratch a particular itch.

If you're not finding the community here or via search check out the resources below on where to look for both new (and ACTIVE) communities.

• !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl

• !newcommunities@lemmy.world

• !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

Feel to suggest any further resources in the comments below.

Please, comment on the thread to show people how strong, friendly and funny we all are ♥

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.intai.tech/post/47084

> > This is what I have so far for links > > - fediverse.info > - A 5-min Tour of the Fediverse > - Lemmy Intro > - Reddit migration > - sub.rehab > - Unoffical Subreddit Migration List > - Reddit Megathread > - Lemmymap > - Fediverse Observer > - Fedi DB > - to the Fediverse > - Awesome Lemmy Instances > - Lemmyverse Explorer > - lemmy the-federation.info > - Lemmy Community Browser > - Lemmy/Fediverse Mod Openings > - Guide to finding Lemmy Communities > - Topical Instances > - !communitysearchtips@lemmy.ninja > - !newcommunities@lemmy.world > - instance block check > - lemmy source > - lemmy andriod client > - What is ActivityPub? > - The Fediverse Could be Awesome (If We Don't Screw it Up) > > any others I should add? Any suggestions for copy/organization?

This is what I have so far for links

Fediverse New User Orientation

Reddit Migration

Here from reddit? Find your new home.

• Reddit migration
• sub.rehab
• Unoffical Subreddit Migration List
• Reddit Megathread

Fediverse

The "network" of instances that uses ActivityPub

• fediverse.info
• A 5-min Tour of the Fediverse
• Fediverse App List
• Fediverse Observer
• Fedi DB
• to the Fediverse

Lemmy

The Reddit-like federated forum app that runs on ActivityPub within the Fediverse

• Lemmy Intro
• Guide to finding Lemmy Communities
• Lemmymap
• Lemmyverse Explorer
• lemmy the-federation.info
• Lemmy Community Browser
• Lemmy/Fediverse Mod Openings

Instance Lists

Lists of Instances

• Topical Instances
• Awesome Lemmy Instances

Communities

Communities for getting started in the fediverse

• !communitysearchtips@lemmy.ninja
• !newcommunities@lemmy.world

For instance Admins

Tools and info for admins and admins-to-be

• Lemmy Easy Deploy
• Lemmy ansible playbook
• instance block check

For Devs

Building or contributing?

• awesome-lemmy for devs
• lemmy source

The Fediverse Could be Awesome (If We Don't Screw it Up) any others I should add? Any suggestions for copy/organization? list is maintained here

As Lemmy starts maturing, there starts being so many communities out there that it's pretty hard to keep track. I've been browsing for about a month now, here's a list of popular communities I've subscribed to that others would find interesting!

Not many of these were noticeable while browsing communities so you may have missed some of these. I've roughly ranked these based on which I'd spend the most time on in each category.

Also note that I would add Kbin communities as well, but federation between Lemmy and Kbin is still not working well, so right now this post is for Lemmy communities only!

General Discussion

• !NoStupidQuestions@lemmy.world
• !AskLemmy@lemmy.ml
• !YouShouldKnow@lemmy.world
• !Fediverse@lemmy.world
• !general@lemmy.world
• !showerthoughts@lemmy.world
• !UKCasual@lemmy.world
• !casualconversation@lemmy.world

Humor & Memes

• !LemmyShitpost@lemmy.world
• !memes@lemmy.ml
• !me_irl@lemmy.ml
• !dadjokes@lemmy.world
• !trippinthroughtime@lemmy.ca
• !humor@lemmy.world
• !linuxmemes@lemmy.world
• !programmerhumor@programming.dev
• !starwarsmemes@lemmy.world

Technology

• !technology@lemmy.world
• !technology@lemmy.ml
• !privacyguides@lemmy.one
• !privacy@lemmy.ml
• !linux@lemmy.ml
• !singularity@lemmy.fmhy.ml
• !android@lemdro.id
• !technews@radiation.party NOTE: This one is a bot community forwarding tech news. Not for discussion, but it's useful to browse.

Pictures & Videos

• !pics@lemmy.world
• !videos@lemmy.world
• !aww@lemmy.world
• !internetfuneral@lemmy.world
• !AnimalsWithJobs@lemmy.world
• !YoutubeHaiku@lemmy.world

Movies & TV

• !moviesandtv@lemmy.film
• !movies@lemmy.world
• !television@lemmy.world

Video Games

• !games@sh.itjust.works
• !games@lemmy.world
• !pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
• !linux_gaming@lemmy.world
• !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
• !retrogaming@lemmy.world
• !ps5@lemmy.ml
• !xbox@lemmy.world
• !nintendo@lemmy.world

And that's it. Whew. Obviously I might have missed some, but these are the most interesting communities for me.

Interested in finding more communities? Check out !newcommunities@lemmy.world to see people showing off their new communities.

Edit: Removed spaces from links, added xbox to games section

Edit 2: android community moved to android@lemdro.id, updated link