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Looking for cool communities?

Some people have been asking which communities they should join first, so I posted some remote communities you can subscribe to on the sidebar on the homepage :)

Tech → !technology@beehaw.org
News → !news@beehaw.org
Gaming → !gaming@beehaw.org
Memes → !memes@sopuli.xyz
Privacy → !privacy@lemmy.ca
FOSS → !foss@beehaw.org
Monero → !monero@monero.town
Music → !music@beehaw.org
Books → !literature@beehaw.org
LGBT → !lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org
Nature → !greenspace@beehaw.org
Sports → !sports@beehaw.org
Programming → !programming@beehaw.org

Find another cool community? Leave a comment :)

There's also this universal community search tool you can try using. If you find a community, just copy its URL and paste it in /search to subscribe to it here. This just goes to show that while there might not be many local communities here on lemmy.one yet, the beauty of the fediverse means that doesn't matter!

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I'm here from reddit, and thank you for these recommendations. Time for my neuroplasticity to kick in so I can learn how all this works.
- Also here from Reddit. Lemmy actually feels like how Reddit *used *to feel in its early years, i.e. fresh community with fresh ideas. Love it!

🪴 Plants
Houseplants !houseplants@mander.xyz
What's this Plant? !plantid@mander.xyz
🏺 Archaeology & Related
Archaeology !archaeology@mander.xyz
Anthropology !anthropology@mander.xyz
Folklore, Myths, Legends, & Fairy Tales !folklore@mander.xyz
🌎 Geography
Geography !geography@mander.xyz
Biodiversity !biodiversity@mander.xyz
Earth Science/Geosciences !earthscience@mander.xyz
Geospatial !geospatial@mander.xyz
Historic(al) Map Porn !old_maps@mander.xyz
Palaeoecology !palaeoecology@mander.xyz
🔬 Science
Science Communication !scicomm@mander.xyz
Ya'll gonna have to nerd out with me now. 😎

Just wanted to say, thanks for hosting this instance! I'm a reddit refuge and this Lemmy instance has been really straightforward on how to get started.

Avoid beehaw
- What don't you like about it? I find Beehaw pretty great. The only thing I could think of is that they've defederated some of the larger instances, but it's understandable given their content philosophy and the current state of moderation tools on Lemmy (really terrible).
- Why?
  
  They've defederated over 400 instances including lemmy.world, they want centralization

Time to wait for the cat ones
- !aww@lemmy.ml
  
  https://lemmy.one/c/aww@lemmy.ml you mean?

Join us for all your sports talk over at https://fanaticus.social! We've got communities for all the major sports and their teams.
I also spent the past week forking the popular game day bot, redball, in order to bring game bots to lemmy! There are still a couple of kinks I'm working out but I've begun rolling them out to the teams' communities, starting with the baseball communities.
Check out:
!baseball@fanaticus.social
!cfb@fanaticus.social
!nfl@fanaticus.social
!nba@fanaticus.social
!hockey@fanaticus.social
!fantasyfootball@fanaticus.social
!fantasy_baseball@fanaticus.social
!fantasyhockey@fanaticus.social
And all the teams-specific communities!
- Is there a community for language learners? More specifically I am interested in learning Swedish.
  
  I think you replied to the wrong comment. My instance hosts communities for sports :)

I appreciate you taking the time to share! I’ve only messed with Mastodon briefly and the fediverse is a little challenging to navigate at first (in my opinion).
I’ve been a lurker on the subreddit for ages and when I saw your post I decided it was time to check Lemmy out. Thanks for taking the time to set up an instance to keeps the community alive as Reddit implodes. Hopefully this works out or at least can act as a temporary home until we can figure out what is next.
- yes, very much appreciated!

For those who missed /r/gamedeals and /r/buildapcsales while browsing lemmy
https://lemmit.online/c/buildapcsales
https://lemmit.online/c/gamedeals
It pulls in posts from the reddit subs.

How can I create some for lemmy.one?
- See a post regarding community creation on the instance lemmy.one. For example, on lemmy.ml, you have a button at the top of the page beside Create Post to create communities. That is not the case as of now for lemmy.one.

Work Reform & Unionizing! - !workreform@lemmy.world

Memmy for iOS makes it super easy to find and join communities. Highly recommended.

https://lemmy.one/c/privacyguides

Does anyone know of any communities for pigeons or capybaras (or tbh any other weird-but-cute critters)?
Edit: adding some as I find them:
https://lemmy.world/c/opossums
https://possumpat.io/c/possums

Theres some sciencey ones on Mander.xyz :
!chemistry@mander.xyz
!physics@mander.xyz
!biology@mander.xyz
Mander has a list that is really long of many different disiplines so I just grabbed the ones that I thought would of intrest
A version of r/nostupidquestions: !nostupidquestions@mander.xyz

!genderqueer@lemmy.one
We're open for all!~

Any community similar to r/PublicFreakout?

!gyrogaming@lemmy.world for fans of gyro (motion aiming) in video games
!steaminput@lemmy.world for Steam Input which is a controller remapper available in Steam.

!trendingcommunities@feddit.nl is my goto for discovery, for anybody else who might be struggling to find communities

Is there a community for news/world news? I always found interesting news in Reddit and liked seeing discussions about it.
- Also interested in this for the same reason

Hi! Does anyone know any good communities about the following topics:
-longboarding
-possum pictures and/or possum memes

Thanks you, subbed to a lot of them. The more content and more posts, the better. :)

Can somebody recommend me a community for people with cPTSD or abusive parents?

I was going down the universal search tool list, subscribing to the communities that I was interested in, and I ran into an issue trying to sub to some of the communities. Thankfully I was able to quickly find the answer - anything that is on the block list under https://lemmy.one/instances you are not able to subscribe to from this instance.
- Glad to see that Lemmygrad is on the blocklist.

Is there an OutOfTheLoop? I keep finding vague allusions to beehaw defederating lemmy.world, but I have no idea where to ask what happened.
- Beehaw appears to be staunchly against instances who allow open registration for any account. They want to foster a safe, friendly community and instances that allow open registration are a ripe spot for trolls and bad actors to register with Lemmy. Since these trolls and bad actors are then free to post on any federated instances, they can sign up on these open instances and attack places they otherwise wouldn't be allowed to register.
  Do the the limited functionality of moderation between federated instances, they decided to defederate from the two fast growing, open registration instances. They've developed a plan with sh.itjust.works to build a path to refederating but Lemmy.world admins have been non-responsive to Beehaw's attempts to reach out to them about doing the same.

https://lemmy.world/c/skywind
Skywind is officially on lemmy. They are Skyrim mod group that is doing a full conversion mod of Morrowind.

I think the reddit hug of love is affecting things today on the 12th.
Just a general question, on a mobile device is using your browser or an app the better experience? And if using an app is Jaebra the one most people use?
- I prefer the browser to apps personally, this is actually one of the main reasons I like Lemmy over Reddit and it's unusable mobile view. You'll find plenty of mobile app users here too and it sounds like it works fine, I'll just caution that some (all?) of them sound like they're feature-incomplete, so if you ever think something is missing from Lemmy, double-check on the website first, because it might just not be added to the app yet.

Found a few very small communities with just a few posts from the universal search tool, when I search for these (they are on other instances) I can't find them. They are not on a blocked instance (both are on lemmy.ml), am I doing something wrong or is there some limit in size of community that are reachable through federation? Thanks, am very new to how the federation works in both Lemmy and Mastodon.
- Click the copy icon to the right of the community name on the search tool, then go to https://lemmy.one/search and paste in the URL it copied, and the community should show up. If it doesn't immediately show up: wait 30 seconds, refresh the search page, and try again, and then it will work.
  
  This process needs to be easier, somehow. New users are going to search, see it doesn't show up, assume everything is broken, and leave.
  
  Thanks, this worked. I was searching "community@instance.tld" but they showed right up when I used full URL copied from the search tool.

For all things Futurama https://lemmy.world/c/futurama

Is there a community for soccer?
- There's one here, but I don't seem to be able to subscribe to it. https://lemmy.ml/c/soccer

Is there any community having an Indian context?

Is there a community for users of FreeDOS?

Anyone aware of an arts/culture community that’s not about posting your own work but more about cool exhibitions and performances across the art world?

Does anyone know if you can hide posts in Jerboa? This post and a lemmy.one welcome post are pinned at the top of my feeds, and they take up a lot of room visually. I'd also like to hide posts I've already seen, as on smaller communities I only want to see the occasional new posts, not see the same post from 3 days ago every time.

Where are my fellow C programmers? And those who prefer Basic ( qb64 and Gambas welcome too)?
- I took a look around over at programming.dev, but couldn't find a C-specific community. Although we do have these (semi-) related communities:
  !cpp@programming.dev
  !csharp@programming.dev
  ~~You can also request new communities in !community_request@programming.dev .~~ Oh man, I was totally wrong. Check out !c_lang@programming.dev !
  
  Thanks! I have joined c_lang!
- This, but data scientists!
  
  There's also !data_engineering@programming.dev , over at programming.dev, which is a software engineering/prorgramming/computer science focused instance.
  
  How about !dataengineering@lemmy.ml ?

Are there any UK-specific communities?
- Did you find !unitedkingdom@lemmy.ml?
  
  Oh great! Oh wait, it's r/UnitedKingdom not r/CasualUK... I'll pass, thanks
- There's a UK-specific instance: lemmy.org.uk
  So far the only community looks to be !general@lemmy.org.uk but I expect there'll be more soon.

What am I missing? I have subscribed to a few lemmy.ml communities here, but despite seeing https://lemmy.ml/c/overwatch2 as an extant community, trying to subscribe to !overwatch2@lemmy.ml returns errors/not found on lemmy.one's side. Is this community blocked here?
- lemmy.ml has a lot of federation issues unfortunately (uptime issues in general, actually). There’s not much that can be done until their server is fixed, and yes I agree it’s very annoying, but they’re working on it 👍

If anyone else is missing Breaddit as much as I, [!bread] (!bread@lemmy.ml) (I think, bear with me as it's my first time trying to link to a community) seems like a good place to start.
Is this link better? https://lemmy.ml/c/bread
- If you link it like this: Bread
  it will be load that community on the user's own instance, so they can just hit subscribe instead of having to search for it back on their own instance.
  [Bread](/c/bread@lemmy.ml)

@jonah - would you be willing to link mander.xyz to our community? They have a lot of science-based subs that look interesting. Thanks
- There should be no problem joining their communities, just paste the URL for any of them into the box on https://lemmy.one/search

I can't see some lemmy.ml communities like "sports" or "Star citizen"
- You can’t see them if nobody here has subscribed to them yet, but if you paste the URL for those communities in https://lemmy.one/search, they’ll show up.

Should this be edited to remove Beehaw now that they have de-federated?
- AFAIK beehaw defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. Not lemmy.one at the moment
- They are only de-federated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works
  Lemmy.one is still federated with those two and beehaw.org
  That means it has no impact on us at all, afaik. I'm no pro but I just made a new account, after having a beehaw one, on this instance specifically to see if I could still see everything on all three, and I can.
  
  It has an impact - you can't see posts or replies on beehaw communities by people from lemmy.world, even if we're federated with all of them. Only people from lemmy.world can see those (but they can't see anyone else's).

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