Is there a Lemmy community for finding other Lemmy communities?

Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 55 points – 10 months ago

I know there are sites out there designed for finding Lemmy communities that aren't within your instance but it can be a difficult to find some more abstract ideas.

For example a community for goofy joke "million dollar" ideas like a gag gift for suburban moms that consists of divorce papers in a red frame that says "Break in case of emergency" or a gun that plays the Danny Phantom lines "He's a phantom" or "I'm going ghost" whenever you pull the trigger.

Yes, see the guide here!

https://lemmy.ca/post/11285664

If you can't see the post on your instance, you can find it on !newToLemmy@lemmy.ca

Copying it below, but please see the link above for the latest updates

🙌 Communities for discovering new communities

::: spoiler 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:

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🌐 Instances to look through

::: spoiler 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

::: spoiler 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

::: spoiler 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?

::: spoiler 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

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Can I advertise a kbin-based community in any of these links?

For sure! I think most of them should be perfectly fine for Kbin communities. I don't even notice the difference when I interact with the Kbin ones. I assume there may be some federation issues so maybe I'm not seeing all the Kbin content, but I can't tell otherwise

You can for sure advertise it in !communityPromo@lemmy.ca because it's open to communities on any platform (source: me because I wrote that guideline 😄)

There’s a bunch but I can’t find them

!lemmy411@lemmy.ca

well, if you cant find it i think you're required to make it.

i like to surf active new queues, so when looking for new instances/ communities i sort by volume of active users (MAU) on fedidb.org and then again in the individual instances by posts in their community search. this gives a good idea of general activity type and volume on the instance.

if you really want to find those niche places that might not have much traction youre stuck using those fediverse search sites