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List of popular Lemmy communities and their alternatives

Just by checking https://lemmy.ml/communities one can see the most popular communities of lemmy.ml. The plan here is to list all the alternatives for those from other instances. One can also suggest alternatives to be added here and I update this living document.

Anarchism --> !anarchism@lemmy.ca
Anime --> !anime@jeremmy.ml
Art --> !art@forum.dxcomplex.com, !photogrammetry@suppo.fi
Ask Lemmy --> !askwomen@lemmy.ca
Gaming --> !gaming@beehaw.org, !gaming@forum.dxcomplex.com
General --> !general@forum.dxcomplex.com, !general@beehaw.org
Green --> slrpnk.net, !environment@beehaw.org, !greenspace@beehaw.org
Cryptocurrency --> !cryptocurrency@lemmy.ca
Fediverse --> !fedizens@lemmy.ca, !thefedizenenquirer@lemmy.ca, !fediverse@midwest.social, !fediverselore@lemmy.ca, !bestofthefediverse@lemmy.ca
Late Stage Capitalism, futurology etc. --> !aboringdystopia@mander.xyz
Libre Culture --> !libre@fediverse.ro
Linux --> !linux@sopuli.xyz
Memes --> !memes@lemmy.ca, !memes@sopuli.xyz, !politicalcompassmemes@lemmy.perthchat.org
Music --> !music@sopuli.xyz, !music@baraza.africa, !metal@lemmy.helvetet.eu, !music@beehaw.org, !midi@suppo.fi
Open Source --> !opensource@lemmy.helvetet.eu
Piracy --> !piracy@poggerinos.ml
Politics --> !moderatepolitics@sopuli.xyz, !politics@beehaw.org, !politics@gtio.io, !geopol@sopuli.xyz, !politics@lemmy.helvetet.eu
Political Humor --> !politicalmemes@lemmy.ca
Privacy --> !privacy@lemmy.ca, !privacy@community.nicfab.it, !privacy@nrsk.no, !privacy@sopuli.xyz, !privacyguides@lemmy.one
Programming language communities --> !programming@beehaw.org
Self-Hosting --> !selfhosting@slrpnk.net, !main@selfhosting.pub
Socialism --> !socialism@midwest.social, !armchairsocialist@lemmy.ca
Science --> !science@beehaw.org, !science@mander.xyz, !science@gtio.io !music@forum.dxcomplex.com
Technology --> !technology@beehaw.org, !technology@gtio.io, !tech@links.roobre.es, !technology@forum.dxcomplex.com
Videos --> !videos@nrsk.no, !video@baraza.africa, !videos@sopuli.xyz
World News --> !news@beehaw.org
Misc --> !sauna@suppo.fi

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Beehaw seems to make a fair bit of effort in providing communities for most common topics and providing content in a non-toxic and non-politically polarized environment. Would recommend alternatives in either of the two recommended instances.

I'd be happy to take on a meme community or news or something like that.
- How about I create a meme community here and make you its moderator?
  
  That's fine

There's also now !socialism@midwest.social and !fediverse@midwest.social

if this list is still being updated, we just started up a new instance at forum.dxcomplex.com. we've got:
!music@forum.dxcomplex.com
!gaming@forum.dxcomplex.com
!art@forum.dxcomplex.com
!technology@forum.dxcomplex.com
!general@forum.dxcomplex.com (catch all for anything/everything else)
Our community in general has a slight DIY and/or retro slant to it but you can discuss whatever within the limits of the rules
- Yes, this list is being updated regularly. But really nice to hear that you have set up your own instance, I will add those right away!
  
  thank you! i'll check back reguarly to see what else gets added

Nice list.
NRSK.no is a rather new Norwegian instance, and it looks like we're going for mostly Norwegian language posts. One community dedicated to content in English is Norway, where everybody is welcome to both subscribe and post.
Our Meta-community is Main.

Music --> music@sopuli.xyz, music@baraza.africa, music@beehaw.org
- There is of course the venerable metal@lemmy.ml, but I generally post in the generalist communities to help grow them.

we have a few fediverse ones here, let me find them.
- https://lemmy.ca/c/fedizens
  \ https://lemmy.ca/c/thefedizenenquirer
  \ https://lemmy.ca/c/fediverselore
  \ https://lemmy.ca/c/bestofthefediverse
  can create a generic fediverse one if needed?
  
  there's one over at https://lemmy.ml/c/fediverse
  
  Nah, those separate communities have specific purposes and are just fine.

programming@beehaw.org, greenspace@beehaw.org

Some of these take an ethical step backwards. I see the pattern: lemmy.ml on the left-hand side, which is generally a good idea because lemmy.ml is centralized by disproportionate numbers. But when you have another quite large node on the RHS which is rendered strictly centralized by Cloudflare, you have a downgrade. E.g. the nodes lemmy.ca and lemmy.one should appear on the LHS, and for transparency I suggest tagging them with a lightening cloud (🌩).
- Far too obviously this list has aged like milk as Lemmy has grown so huge and better tools are available for finding different communities.
  
  I agree, but this list is pinned which made me think there’s an attempt to maintain it.

Is https://heapoverflow.ml gone or just momentarily down? If gone it might be good to update this great posting 😁

@QuentinCallaghan For libre culture I found !libre
It doesn't really seem active tho.

Anime --> !anime@jeremmy.ml
Broken link? Doesn't work anymore. If you'll be replacing an alternative, I suggest not substituting it with !anime@lemmy.ml as that one's owned by an infamous subreddit hoarder on Reddit.

i wouldn't recommend anything from mander.xyz, it's a freezepeach instance
- Just by looking at the instance's posts, it doesn't look like it. I however remember it becoming a spam haven at one point.
  
  it federates indiscriminately, including with the far-right wolfballs and the Marxist-Leninist lemmygrad
- Why would a science / nature instance block? My assumption is it would be open to anyone if posts were on topic, and there were no dodgy posts. Moderation might need to be more on point.
  
  C/monkey pox has been hit with some antivax action before

I just started !titanfall@sopuli.xyz, the one sub from reddit I feel like I could run myself. Come join if you're a fan of the game/games! There were more that I was active in, I'm going to be trying to be even more of a contributor than I was on reddit, but I'll ramp up as I figure out lemmy.

https://mander.xyz/c/covid19

Linux --> /c/linux@heapoverflow.ml
- Looks like it's case sensitive

Dope thank you

Once one of these get big enough, not a bad idea to make those on other instances. In case the instance goes down, admin goes rogue etc.

new finds:
https://lemmy.ca/c/anarchism
https://lemmy.ca/c/fuckcars
https://lemmy.ml/c/green has 1.45k subscribers - beehaw: https://beehaw.org/c/environment, also slrpnk.net as a whole.

Don't how up to date this is, but here are a few communities:
!usa@midwest.social
!gaming@midwest.social

https://lemmygrad.ml/c/shitliberalssay, shit fascists say, shit patsocs say, leftist infighting, shit soc dems say, shit white people say, shit anarchists say, shit etc says --> https://lemmy.ca/c/armchairsocialist mostly
communism --> !socialism@midwest.social
late stage capitalism, boring dystopia, futurology, collapse --> https://mander.xyz/c/aboringdystopia
anti usa, pro usa, usa news --> https://lemmy.ca/c/usa

Additional Privacy --> privacy@community.nicfab.it,privacy@lemmygrad.ml,privacy@wolfballs.com,privacy@nrsk.no
- Why can't I follow @privacy@lemmygrad.ml and @privacy@wolfballs.com from my instance from? The other two worked...
- Pretty sure we're not doing lemmgygrad since it's the problems of lemmy.ml x10 and wolfballs is far right
  
  They're both legitimate privacy instances and part of the lemmyverse, is it a proper list if it doesn't give all the alternatives? Up to the maintainer.
  
  Dude I Can't get in to wolf balls I've tried but I never receive the email verification

I'm very new to Lemmy and trying to find some interesting and live communities. I found this list and it is not good at all. Check !memes@lemmy.ca - 0 posts. Check other one - 1 post. Check another one - someone reposts links from twitter. That is not helpful list.
- The purpose of this list is simply to collect alternative communities on different Lemmy instances, not to filter them out by popularity or a similar metric.

Should we nominate !fuckcars@lemmy.ml to find an alternative? seems pretty active

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