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!transmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone, Trans Memes, 191 => 1017, 128 posts (6 this week) !factorio@lemmy.world, Factorio, 140 => 925, 112 posts (13 this week) !housing_bubble_2@lemmy.world, Housing Bubble 2: Return of the Ugly, 566 => 1438, 566 posts (28 this week) !rcv@ponder.cat, Ranked Choice Voting, 27 => 334, 63 posts (10 this week) !funny@lemmy.world, Funny: Home of the Haha, 2191 => 3832, 1201 posts (19 this week) !mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml, Mechanical Keyboards, 16 => 157, 506 posts (6 this week) !newcommunities@lemmy.world, New Communities, 342 => 1125, 3069 posts (16 this week) !finanzen@feddit.org, Finanzen, 31 => 283, 32 posts (5 this week) !selfhosted@lemmy.world, Selfhosted, 1369 => 2738, 3517 posts (21 this week) !progressivepolitics@lemmy.world, Progressive Politics, 828 => 1673, 959 posts (33 this week) !goodoffmychest@lemmy.world, Off My Chest, 54 => 277, 98 posts (3 this week) !fdroid@lemmy.ml, F-Droid, 83 => 424, 365 posts (5 this week) !linux_gaming@lemmy.ml, Linux Gaming, 344 => 811, 1235 posts (15 this week) !unions@sh.itjust.works, unions, 571 => 1128, 1114 posts (22 this week) !programminghumor@lemmy.world, Programming Humor, 32 => 186, 58 posts (1 this week) !poetry@lemmy.world, Poetry, 79 => 323, 1088 posts (23 this week) !memes@lemmy.world, memes, 6964 => 8033, 3298 posts (65 this week) !communitypromo@lemmy.ca, Community Promo, 22 => 156, 290 posts (5 this week) !europeanfederalists@lemmy.world, European Federalists, 403 => 777, 577 posts (376 this week) !mlemapp@lemmy.ml, Mlem for Lemmy, 16 => 55, 330 posts (2 this week) !okmatewanker@feddit.uk, okmatewanker, 514 => 835, 199 posts (4 this week) !ontario@lemmy.ca, Ontario, 269 => 503, 418 posts (8 this week) !pets@hexbear.net, Pets, 64 => 229, 247 posts (11 this week) !sino@hexbear.net, sino, 169 => 386, 1075 posts (7 this week) !cyanideandhappiness@lemm.ee, Cyanide and Happiness, 1261 => 1569, 534 posts (9 this week)

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!cunkposting@lemmy.world, CunkPosting, 180 => 235, 9 posts (1 this week) !fedimemes@feddit.uk, Fediverse memes, 207 => 259, 46 posts (10 this week) !scrungycats@lemmy.world, scrungycats, 377 => 404, 17 posts (1 this week) !manul@lemmy.blahaj.zone, manul, 191 => 208, 27 posts (2 this week) !micro_maps@ttrpg.network, Micro-maps, 94 => 105, 47 posts (5 this week) !dandadan@ani.social, Dandadan, 45 => 53, 35 posts (1 this week) !assistive_technology@lemmy.sdf.org, Assistive Technology, 84 => 93, 109 posts (1 this week)

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!squirrels@lemmy.ca, Squirrels, 19 => 316, 115 posts (2 this week) !foodcrimes@midwest.social, Food Crimes - Offenses against nutrition, 11 => 312, 174 posts (2 this week) !newcommunities@lemmy.world, New Communities, 123 => 1164, 3065 posts (19 this week) !dadjokes@lemmy.world, Dad Jokes, 422 => 1885, 1082 posts (13 this week) !europeanfederalists@lemmy.world, European Federalists, 104 => 736, 397 posts (324 this week) !selfhosted@lemmy.world, Selfhosted, 1745 => 2575, 3514 posts (30 this week) !usa@lemmy.ml, United States | News & Politics, 1157 => 2306, 5982 posts (89 this week) !mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml, Mechanical Keyboards, 18 => 112, 503 posts (3 this week) !okmatewanker@feddit.uk, okmatewanker, 254 => 811, 197 posts (6 this week) !degoogle@lemmy.ml, DeGoogle Yourself, 16 => 141, 338 posts (3 this week) !factorio@lemmy.world, Factorio, 60 => 325, 103 posts (6 this week) !memes@midwest.social, Memes, 249 => 701, 384 posts (1 this week) !programminghumor@lemmy.world, Programming Humor, 25 => 188, 58 posts (2 this week) !ontario@lemmy.ca, Ontario, 128 => 416, 413 posts (7 this week) !funny@lemmy.world, Funny: Home of the Haha, 1961 => 2586, 1189 posts (16 this week) !energy@slrpnk.net, Green Energy, 387 => 696, 734 posts (15 this week) !startrek@startrek.website, Star Trek, 259 => 598, 1382 posts (21 this week) !herpetology@mander.xyz, Reptiles and Amphibians, 40 => 137, 109 posts (4 this week) !health@lemmy.world, Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related, 239 => 462, 1764 posts (14 this week) !cyberpunk@lemmy.zip, Cyberpunk, 16 => 127, 257 posts (6 this week) !games@sh.itjust.works, Games, 2689 => 3269, 11330 posts (121 this week) !communitypromo@lemmy.ca, Community Promo, 13 => 127, 289 posts (5 this week) !unions@sh.itjust.works, unions, 474 => 716, 1098 posts (12 this week) !livestreamfail@lemmy.world, Livestream Fails, 34 => 159, 118 posts (30 this week) !raining@sh.itjust.works, Raining, 41 => 166, 118 posts (2 this week)

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Subscriber Growth

!linuxsucks@lemmy.world, Linuxsucks, 5 => 60, 26 posts (22 this week) !infosec_news@infosec.pub, Infosec News, 57 => 113, 420 posts (347 this week) !fedimemes@feddit.uk, Fediverse memes, 185 => 249, 43 posts (10 this week) !historyruins@lemmy.world, History Ruins, 436 => 470, 171 posts (7 this week) !cosmichorror@lemm.ee, Cosmic Horror, 354 => 384, 132 posts (11 this week) !hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se, Hacker News, 95 => 109, 3744 posts (625 this week) !horrormovies@lemm.ee, Horror movies, 230 => 248, 248 posts (19 this week) !gummigoo@lemmy.world, gummigoo, 7 => 10, 11 posts (4 this week) !linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works, LinkedinLunatics, 3368 => 3429, 77 posts (1 this week)

Based on this thread (https://feddit.org/post/3912054 / !newcommunities@lemmy.world ) there are quite a few people who prefer not to interact with communities hosted on Lemmy.ml

Could we maybe consider moving this community to a less controversial instance, such as discuss.tchncs.de because !trucksim@discuss.tchncs.de and !diysimulators@discuss.tchncs.de are already hosted there, or Lemmy.zip ?

Active User Growth

!uspolitics@lemmy.world, USpolitics, 87 => 1418, 111 posts (5 this week) !fuck_cars@lemmy.ml, Fuck Cars, 277 => 2599, 1237 posts (6 this week) !internetisawesome@sh.itjust.works, Internet Is Awesome, 15 => 89, 63 posts (1 this week) !imgoingtohellforthis@lemmy.world, ImGoingToHellForThis, 18 => 606, 18 posts (17 this week) !books@lemmy.ml, Books, 11 => 109, 549 posts (1 this week) !internetofshit@suppo.fi, Internet of Shit, 17 => 398, 40 posts (2 this week) !goodlongread@lemmy.world, goodLongRead, 18 => 394, 82 posts (12 this week) !anime_irl@ani.social, anime_irl, 13 => 97, 244 posts (1 this week) !insanepeoplefacebook@lemmy.world, InsanePeopleFacebook, 805 => 1901, 640 posts (15 this week) !dataisbeautiful@lemmy.world, Data is Beautiful, 558 => 1217, 76 posts (2 this week) !usa@lemmy.ml, United States | News & Politics, 1456 => 2257, 5957 posts (86 this week) !acab@hexbear.net, acab, 53 => 295, 496 posts (4 this week) !retrogaming@lemmy.world, RetroGaming, 1728 => 2640, 1323 posts (45 this week) !newcommunities@lemmy.world, New Communities, 88 => 340, 3053 posts (10 this week) !microblogmemes@lemmy.world, Microblog Memes, 6140 => 7013, 1451 posts (31 this week) !startrek@startrek.website, Star Trek, 150 => 427, 1368 posts (9 this week) !linux@lemmy.ml, Linux, 2618 => 3495, 8078 posts (65 this week) !bikinibottomtwitter@lemmy.world, Bikini Bottom Twitter, 728 => 1225, 594 posts (9 this week) !conservative@sh.itjust.works, Conservative, 19 => 124, 98 posts (3 this week) !unpopularopinion@lemmy.world, Unpopular Opinion, 56 => 241, 486 posts (1 this week) !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ, 1538 => 2091, 3143 posts (14 this week) !anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com, Anarchism, 25 => 122, 171 posts (2 this week) !xkcd@lemmy.world, xkcd, 367 => 742, 247 posts (4 this week) !google@lemmy.world, Google, 192 => 437, 230 posts (12 this week) !technology@lemmy.ml, Technology, 1513 => 1927, 5005 posts (38 this week)

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!fedimemes@feddit.uk, Fediverse memes, 170 => 202, 36 posts (8 this week) !peanuts@midwest.social, Peanuts, 38 => 53, 14 posts (6 this week) !horrormovies@lemm.ee, Horror movies, 216 => 241, 241 posts (34 this week) !inktober@sh.itjust.works, Inktober 2024, 147 => 167, 163 posts (53 this week) !historyruins@lemmy.world, History Ruins, 415 => 446, 166 posts (7 this week) !cosmichorror@lemm.ee, Cosmic Horror, 339 => 367, 126 posts (10 this week) !echo@eventfrontier.com, Echo, 61 => 73, 5 posts (3 this week) !tja@feddit.org, tja, 115 => 129, 10 posts (1 this week) !nocontextpics@lemmy.world, no context, 1084 => 1120, 123 posts (13 this week) !wallpapersbr@lemmy.eco.br, Papéis de Parede, 8 => 11, 24 posts (7 this week)

To discover new communities:

• !newcommunities@lemmy.world
• !communities@ponder.cat
• !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl

For a community dedicated to community growing

• !fedigrow@lemm.ee

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.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/life-by-you-is-cancelled.1688889/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/paradox-interactive-completely-cancelled-life-by-you/

Thought people should still see this news (I linked the original post) if they are into life sims but don't subscribe to !thesims. Also need to post something here to give it activity in the last 7 days so I can list it on active communities at !newcommunities.

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.

The Plan

As an introductory subproject, I will be reaching out directly to Lemmy moderators and asking for their experiences establishing and growing their communities. Once compiled, a summary of the experiences will be written up in a living document for current best practices. To do this, I will be contacting moderators in sets of roughly 5-10 at a time. This will allow for constructive iteration in a way that posting on the “new community” subs (as is more or less standard practice) simply would not.

What then?

Once there are enough resources to be useful I'll make announcement posts in relevant communities as well as reach out to the mods of communities like !newcommunities@lemmy.world about being linked in the sidebar.

And long term?

We'll organize a series of activity drives intended to build bonds and strengthen the institutional knowledge of the fediverse. These initiatives may include:

• Wiki Building
• Outreach Drives
• Community Consolidation and Organization
• Cross-Community Collaboration
• Housecleaning

Have you just created a community (or undergone some major revamp)? Consider posting in one of the following places.

• !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
• !newcommunities@lemmy.world
• !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca
• !lemmy411@lemmy.ca
• !findacommunity@lemmy.ml

Posts to adjacent communities are also useful. Particularly if your community fills a totally separate purpose. Please do not make posts on competing communities. If you are not sure, it is a good idea to reach out to the other moderation team before posting.

--- This wiki is a living document. If you are interested in contributing, please comment below or make a post over at !digitalcommunitybuilding@slrpnk.net

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

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🙌 Communities for discovering new communities

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🌐 Instances to look through

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🔎 Search Engines

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🔥 Apps and Browser Extensions

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👽 Coming from Reddit?

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?

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

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🌐 Instances to look through

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🔎 Search Engines

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🔥 Apps and Browser Extensions

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👽 Coming from Reddit?

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?