You'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the profusion of AI-generated images on the internet. Some are beautiful, some are unsettling, but most of the ones people take the time to post are interesting. If you like the occasional artistic image to flow across your timeline, Stable Diffusion Art will make a great subscription for you.

Now, this is not to be confused with Stable Diffusion, also at dbzer0.com. Stable Diffusion Art is the showcase community, whereas Stable Diffusion is a discussion community about the generative program.

What I like the best about Stable Diffusion Art is that it has themed contests. Someone will post a theme (such as "zombie apocalypse"), and everyone is free to submit comments with the art they generated along that theme.

Go give it a look. W

Searching through communities can be a daunting task. At latest count, there are over 15,000 communities to choose from. In addition, it’s common to pick communities that you are already interested in. This forms a bit of a bubble, where the content you are exposed to is the content you already agree with and like. So how do you push those boundaries and find new and diverse communities?

One way is to visit a random community. Lemmy-Discover makes this easy by giving you an interface that will show you exactly one community. You’ll see its statistics as well as a few posts and their associated comments. If the community isn’t for you, you can press the big red skip button and see another random community.

(Those of us who are of a certain age will recognize this immediately — it’s just flipping through the channels on the TV to see what’s on. How many great shows did you discover this way?)

It looks like Lemmy-Discover is designed to b

What do you get when you mix corporate abuses of data, a shift from ownership to renting of software, and dozens of high-profile security breaches? You get a healthy distrust of putting your data on someone else’s computer (also known as “the cloud”). You also get Data Hoarder, a community dedicated to the practice of storing your data on machines that you control. Free from monthly subscriptions and free from prying eyes.

Even if you aren’t a self-hoster, there are a lot of things you can learn from this community. Do you own a PC? Saving money on new storage is a constant topic of discussion. For example, did you know that you can often find great deals on 3.5” hard drives by buying external enclosures with the drive already included? Manufacturers will often put very high quality drives in these enclosures because that’s the model they have the most unsold units of. When you buy the external enclosure, it can cost much less than buying the drive yo

Yesterday's community spotlight about the PC Master Race community got me thinking: is there a similar community for deals on PC components? Anyone who has ever built a PC knows that component prices vary widely. Getting a good deal is probably half the work of building or upgrading a PC.

Luckily for us Lemmings, there is buildapcsales over at lemmy.ml! Each post in the community showcases a single deal. The titles of the post are strictly regulated to make it easy to find the component type you're looking for and to see its brand and price.

So are the deals any good? Well, that, my friends, is beyond the scope of this article. But at least it's an extra arrow in your quiver to help you keep costs down!

One additional note: PC sales are region-specific. If you're not in the US, you may want to check out these related communities for component deals:

• Canada: [BAPC Sales Canada](https://lemmy.ca/c/bapcsales

Deep in the warren of Lemmy communities lies a place that focuses on the venerable personal computer and everything around it: the technology, the process of building one, or even just celebrating what it looks like when it's all done. It's PC Master Race. Longtime Reddit users may recognize that community name. It was a staple of Reddit whose posts rose to the popular feed on a regular basis. With over 10,000 subscribers already, lemmy.world's version is similarly popular.

I've used PC Master Race to get support, help others with similar builds fix their problems, find good peripherals for my own upgrade projects, and just to see what's possible with PC gaming.

Let's help this community with some posts! Go take a picture of your battlestation and share it, or post your build specs and ask the group how you can improve them. You'll be surprised what you can learn from the discussion!

What’s more fun than a trip to Bozeman, MT on First Contact Day? What’s more satisfying than a plate of salmon on Federation Day? What’s deeper than self-reflection on the sands of Vulcan? That’s right, it’s the Star Trek community over at startrek.website!

If you are a Star Trek fan, this is the community for you. It’s very active and full of high-quality content. Here you can read about the behind-the-scenes details of any show in the franchise. The sidebar helpfully lists the shows that are in development, production, and release. Really, anything that is Star Trek-related is talked about here. So go refill your Romulan ale and drop by for a visit!

It’s almost 11:00 AM, and I’m still exhausted. I can barely keep my eyes open. This seems like the perfect time to do a community spotlight for Espresso. Operated by our friends at infosec.pub, this community caters to lovers of espresso and the art of making it. It was created in response to the Reddit exodus, hoping to make a new home for espresso lovers here in the Fediverse.

It’s always a pleasure to find these smaller, niche communities on Lemmy. The moderators have thoughtfully migrated the wiki from the original Reddit community, and have filled out their sidebar with a ton of useful information. (All of that information is included in the bubble above this post. I feel a little guilty writing a spotlight article that’s shorter than the destination community’s sidebar!)

My only wish is that there was some sort of button that could deliver an espresso to me right now so that I could wake up the rest of the way. Oh, well. Maybe I should buy on

I'm back after a week hiatus where I was helping lemmy.ninja manage a large influx of new users. And that means it's time for a new Community Spotlight! Today I bring you Pitch A Youtuber, a community whose sole purpose is to spread the word about extraordinary youtube artists. I'm not much of a youtube-watcher myself, but I have to admit that there are some incredibly good offerings out there.

So today only, I'm going to give you a two-for-one deal. First you get this community spotlight telling you about the Pitch A Youtuber community! As an added bonus, I'm going to give you not one but two great Youtube channels that you should check out.

First there's Professor of Rock, a channel I only discovered last week when I watched the incredible Rick Roll episode. I'm not really a fan of rock culture, or music history. Sure, I loves me some techno, an

If you're looking for NSFW communities, Lemmyverse.net now provides a Show NSFW checkbox to help filter your search. Unlike a regular checkbox, however, this checkbox has three states.

By default when you visit Lemmyverse.net, the checkbox is unchecked. That means that any search you perform will exclude any community marked as NSFW.

Figure 1: The Show NSFW checkbox is unchecked, so no NSFW communities will be shown.

Clicking the checkbox once changes the filter to include both NSFW and SFW communities in the search result. This is indicated by a hyphen in the checkbox with a yellow background, as well as a tooltip if you over over it.

Figure 2: After clicking the Show NSFW checkbox once, NSFW communities will be included in search results alongside SFW communities.

Clicking th

INXS, Porno for Pyros, Presidents of the United States, The Primitives.... These are just a few of the large (large!) number of Alternative Rock offerings at Alternative Nation. This is a genuinely busy place, folks, with 287 posts so far, growing by a dozen a day! It even has its own Spotify playlist, which I'm not even going to link to because I think you should visit this community that much!

This community clearly has dedicated mods who love the content and work hard to curate and present it with quality. Drop in, subscribe, and be sure to post!

Today we’re bringing attention to lemmy.ninja’s own Team Red, a community all about AMD and their products. Maybe you switched to AMD when NVidia’s video cards were impossible to find outside of a scalper’s den. Maybe you bailed on Intel and their space heater processors, opting for a Ryzen Threadripper. Or maybe you’ve been in AMD’s ecosystem for years. No matter your circumstances, this community is here to cater to you!

Come on in and show us your build. Share a benchmark! Ask a question and get some help from your colleagues. It’s all welcome at Team Red!

For today's spotlight, I present Australia. The most active and subscribed community of aussie.zone, this community boasts a whopping 246 users per week. So many, in fact, that I almost feel like writing this spotlight is moot, because everyone already seems to know about it! Then again, there's always someone whose Lemmy journey is just beginning, and who could benefit from learning about the popular destinations of the platform.

If Australia is too broad, aussie.zone has communities for various cities and regions of Australia for a more local discussion. And, in a particularly neighborly fashion, they have even listed the other Australia-related communities in their sidebar.

Today we highlight ADHD Women, a community “for women to find support and discuss living with ADHD.” There are a lot of ADHD-related communities across Lemmy, but this is the first one I’ve seen that caters to women. It’s a recent addition to the Fediverse, with posts going back a month or so.

Here we have a venerable community for today's Community Spotlight. Linux Guides has been around since 2021, which makes it one of the oldest communities we've featured here so far. It's a community where users are encouraged to post anything they find useful in the realm of linux. So that github page about creating LXCs that you starred a few years ago that you keep referring back to? That would be a good candidate to post here!

It's not terribly active, which surprises me. It seems that every big project I do in Linux requires one or more guides to get through. So let's share our hidden treasures with the community and help it grow!

Going forward, the moderators of Community Search Tips will strongly encourage posts to use the URL of a community when linking to that community. We won't get upset at you for using the other methods; we just feel that the full URL provides the best user experience, especially for users of small instances.

This is a bit of a meta post, but please feel free to comment on it if you like.

Background

There are several ways to link to a community in Lemmy. The two most common you will see are these:

• URL Method. This involves using the URL found in your browser's address bar when you are visiting the community. For example, https://lemmy.world/c/transformers
• Shorthand Method. This method uses an exclamation point in the address, which tells Lemmy to load the remote community through the instance you are currently logged in at. For example,

If you're not familiar with it, Mastodon is a microblogging platform that works in a federated manner, just like Lemmy. In fact, since both Lemmy and Mastodon use the ActivityPub protocol to share their posts, Mastodon users can fully interact with Lemmy content.

So, in the spirit of broadening the Fediverse, today's community spotlight focuses on [email protected]. It's a busy place, but that should be no surprise, since it's hosted at lemmy.ml. So head on over there and say hello, especially if you're a Mastodon user!

It's Friday, so today's Community Spotlight post is brought to you by Cats! No, it's not a community about the awful 2019 movie based on the Broadway Play -- yeah, that one -- with the infamous butthole cut. No, this is a community focused on the core purpose of the internet.

No, not porn.

Cats! Posting cat pictures and cat videos and cat-related content! Glorious glorious cats!

Now, granted: this community is pretty small right now. But if there's one thing I've learned in my years on the internet, it's that cat communities grow exponentially. So get in there and secure your spot as one of the founding members of Cats!

Part of making communities discoverable is making the posts in those communities stand out. If you're an admin, moderator, or even if you're a contributor who wants to draw in subscribers and increase engagement, you should always try to attach an image to any text-only posts you make.

Overview

Important note: This post applies to Lemmy 0.18.0. In Lemmy 0.18.1, you will see separate text boxes for the URL and the image of a post.

When you create a post that has a URL, Lemmy will try to grab a picture from the URL's destination to insert into the post thumbnail. But when you create a text-only post, you need to supply that image yourself. Luckily, it's very easy to do.

How To

In the image below, we have a post I'm writing for Lemmy.ninja's Boomer Shooter community. It's about a patch for Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, a first-person boomer shooter game. As is often the case with announcements like this, there isn't a good web page for me

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1080409

I built this for myself some years ago and used it a lot to find many interesting niche subreddits. Today I expanded it to also help myself and others find interesting niche communities across the Lemmyverse!

There is a longer explanation here from an older article, but basically:

• You give this a link that you found interesting
• It will (try to) find everywhere it has been shared on the Lemmyverse (and other websites)
• It will show you all comments from everywhere it's been shared on a single page
• You can do all the regular stuff like filter, sort, isolate etc.

One thing I find myself doing very often is hitting "toggle sources" on the top banner; this shows me everywhere the link has been shared and commented on, and if I see a community I'm not familiar with, I'll isolate the comments from that source and ha

[Edit: Wefwef has been rebranded as Voyager, and the community has moved as well. This post was updated to include the new name and links.]

Today's spotlight centers on the community for the nascent Lemmy web application Voyager! Voyager isn't a binary application that you install; it's a web application that you can run on most phones with a web browser. It's targeted toward iOS, but the developers say that you can run it on Android, too! It is a spiritual successor to the extraordinarily popular Apollo mobile app for viewing Reddit content.

Much of that enthusiasm for Apollo has certainly carried over. Just look at these engagement statistics for the Voyager community:

The community is a hive of activity, with pretty much what you would expect from an application community: bug reports, feature requests, and feature comparisons. The community users are even submittin