Any non-Beehaw Lemmy communities anyone recommends following?

TMoney@beehaw.org to AskBeehaw@beehaw.org – 3 points –

I'm slowly trying to build my feed and while Beehaw offers plenty of great communities with great engagement, I'd like to add a few more to give me a little more variety. Open to anything really!

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Unfortunately a decent amount of active communities are on lemmy.world – but here are some other cool places from my subbed list:

  • mander.xyz — this place has a lot of nature and science communities; their houseplant community is great, they have a native plant gardening community, a moss community (please join and post more moss!!), and more.

  • sopuli.xyz — they have a map enthusiasts community I like, popular steam deck and meme communities, EDC, and more.

  • slrpnk.net — they have solarpunk and zero waste communities, no lawns, etc.

  • lemmy.zip — has good game specific communities, like Disco Elysium, Hades, Starfield, Diablo, and others

I’ll also recco lemmyverse.net as a great way to browse the communities that are across the fediverse!

Why is lemmy.world having a lot of active communities unfortunate? I'm a bit new here. Is there already drama between communities? Or some other reason, like slow servers or something?

Edit: Just saw that it's defederated. Any reason? I was worried about this being a thing, having to subscribe to other communities and shuffle subscriptions. What a pain. Hope it doesn't happen often.

Beehaw is defederated from lemmy.world for the reasons listed here.

Ah I see. Those are solid reasons, I don't blame them for defederating. Still kinda sucks, I was worried about this being a problem. Having multiple accounts and re-managing subscriptions each time it happens is going to be a nightmare without any centralization. I wonder if it's going to be a barrier for less tech savvy users. I suppose these types of problems can be solved over time.

I personally think people need to be more comfortable with multiple logins for social media, rather than putting everything into a single basket. Improvements to the front end + apps would help with that as well.

As with most things, there's trade offs. From a usability stand point, it's a pain. I try to keep the amount of accounts I have to a minimum. They're easy to lose track of, hard to keep them secure when I don't remember how many accounts I have out there (I don't have many accounts, so keeping track is easy right now), can't always account for the security of the platform, end up reusing similar or same passwords and user names a lot, etc... Yeah I can work around all of that, but that's part of the problem.. I'm also lazy :)

The part that I think would be most annoying is just knowing which servers got defederated at any given time, creating new accounts, shuffling subscriptions. Luckily it doesn't look like it forgot what I was subscribed too, so I just had to make a new account and then re-subscribe to everything. But if this grew to the size of reddit, it's almost nightmare material thinking about the drama between communities and constantly reshuffling. Bleh.

I mean I'm fine with it, not trying to complain here :) Just some things I'm worried about is all.

Here is a link to a post that another user made listing a lot of different communities. Maybe you would be interested in some of them.

https://lemmy.world/post/983150

Edit: Sorry, I just realized that the link that I listed is on lemmy.world, so I guess you would be unable to view it since beehaw has defederated from them.

No thank you. I still can view them anonymously I think.