A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics)
A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics)
Searching Lemmyverse is good for finding communities. !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl is also a nice tool for finding new places.
I posted this on the other site but I thought I'd copy over here too, lots of good communities around to subscribe to if you want a more casual/fun frontpage that isn't just tech news, elon musk, or politics.
note: all of these communities have posts. If they appear empty, it simply means nobody on the instance you use has visited them before (or you might have blocked them and forgot, I've done it before, lol)! I will try to keep this thread updated over time.
Note: if you wish to auto-subscribe to all of the communities below, I have a post in the comments that describes how to do so.
My rough criterion was:
- Of interest to me or a wide audience
- Has a decent amount of activity
- Casual / fun / interesting / cool / funny / chatty communities.
- 0 negativity/negative vibes, news, politics, overload of tech or niche tech news/info, etc.
Directory
- Conversation Communities - for chatty places
- "ask" based
- Casual chat / Misc
- Hobbies, Creative, Passions
- Misc
- Artwork
- Cooking, food, drinks
- Gardening / Plants
- Keyboard enthusiasts
- Knitting, stitching, crocheting, etc
- Reading and writing
- Nice/Interesting/Funny pictures
- Animals
- Comics
- Flags
- Maps
- Memes
- Misc
- Photography
- Wallpapers
- Games
- Board games / Table top games
- Chess
- Crosswords / Daily games
- Video games
- Knowledge (e.g history, science, etc)
- Space
- TV (television, movies, film)
- Music
Conversation communities
These are places that are 'chatty', good if you want a lot of comments.
"ask" based
- !asklemmy@lemmy.ml
- !asklemmy@lemmy.world
- !askmeanything@lemmy.ca
- !askouija@lemmy.world
- !askscience@lemmy.world
- !askuk@feddit.uk
- !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Casual chat / Misc
- !cafe@monyet.cc - casual chat community. Worth noting that the instance (and likely most users) are Malaysian.
- !casualconversation@lemm.ee
- !edc@sopuli.xyz (chat about things you carry everyday)
- !frugal@lemmy.world
- !mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
- !nostalgia@lemmy.ca
- !showerthoughts@lemmy.world
- !streetwear@lemmy.world
- !ukcasual@lemmy.world
- !yurop@lemm.ee
Hobbies, Creative, Passions
Misc
- !3dprinting@lemmy.world
- !faceting@lemmy.world (gemstone cutting)
- !imadethis@lemm.ee
- !lego@lemmy.world
- !tabletopminis@lemmy.world
- !wetshaving@sub.wetshaving.social
- !woodworking@lemmy.ca
Artwork
(see also the list under the Wallpapers header)
- !ai_art@lemmy.world
- !albumartporn@lemmy.world
- !artshare@lemmy.world - for artists to share their own work, more amateur than the others
- !artporn@lemm.ee
- !apocalypticart@discuss.tchncs.de
- !cybermoe@ani.social
- !digitalart@lemmy.world
- !imageai@sh.itjust.works
- !imaginary@reddthat.com
- !imaginarycosmere@sffa.community
- !imaginarydragons@leminal.space
- !imaginarystarships@lemmy.world
- !imaginarywarhammer@lemmy.world
- !hobbit_art@hobbit.world - Lord of the Rings/Hobbit related art
- !psychedelic_artwork@psychedelia.ink
- !traditional_art@lemmy.world
Cooking, food, drinks
- !castiron@lemmy.world
- !cocktails@lemmy.world
- !coffee@lemmy.world
- !cooking@lemmy.world
- !espresso@infosec.pub
- !homebrewing@sopuli.xyz
- !recipes@feddit.uk
- !sourdough@lemmy.world
- !veganrecipes@sh.itjust.works
Generally mostly nice pics of food:
Gardening / Plants
- !gardening@lemmy.world
- !houseplants@mander.xyz
- !mushrooms@lemmy.world
- !mycology@mander.xyz
- !succulents@midwest.social
Keyboard enthusiasts
Knitting, Stitching, Crocheting, etc
- !amigurumi@lemmy.world
- !crochet@lemmy.ca
- !knitting@lemmy.world
- !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works
- !sewing@lemmy.world
- !sewingrepairing@sh.itjust.works
- !quilting@lemmy.world
Reading and Writing
- !books@lemmy.ml
- !comics@lemmy.ml
- !comicbooks@lemmy.world
- !eurographicnovels@lemm.ee
- !keepwriting@lemmy.world
- !writingprompts@lemmy.world
Sport
Honestly there are so many sport communities around - if you search Lemmyverse for popular sports, you will almost certainly find more.
Nice/Interesting/Funny pictures
Animals
Literally just pictures of cute animals.
- !aww@lemmy.ml
- !aww@lemmy.world
- !awwnverts@lemmy.world
- !bats@lemmy.world
- !beebutts@lemmy.world
- !birding@lemmy.world
- !bugmenagerie@possumpat.io
- !bugs@lemmy.world
- !cat@lemmy.world
- !cats@midwest.social
- !dogs@lemmy.world
- !foxes@lemmy.world
- !illegallysmolcats@lemmy.world
- !quackers@lemmy.world
- !squirrels@lemmy.ca
- !superbowl@lemmy.world
- !spiders@lemmy.world
- !wildlifephotography@lemmy.world
Comics
- !comicstrips@lemmy.world
- !cyanideandhappiness@lemm.ee
- !nathanwpyle@lemmy.world
- !thefarside@sh.itjust.works
- !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org
- !xkcd@lemmy.world
Flags
Maps
Memes
Meme communities in general can overload your feed, so keep that in mind.
- !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone (lgbt memes)
- !adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- !animalswithjobs@lemmy.world
- !anime_irl@ani.social
- !animemes@ani.social
- !antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world
- !best_of_mastodon@sh.itjust.works
- !bikinibottomtwitter@lemmy.world
- !boneappletea@lemmy.world
- !chevron7@lemmy.world (stargate memes)
- !curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works
- !dnd_memes@lemmy.world
- !fakehistoryporn@lemmy.world
- !foundsatan@lemmy.world
- !funny@sh.itjust.works
- !funny@lemmy.ml
- !funny@lemmy.world
- !greentext@sh.itjust.works
- !grimdank@lemmy.world
- !historymemes@kbin.social
- !lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world
- !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
- !lotrmemes@midwest.social
- !me_irl@lemmy.world
- !memes@midwest.social
- !memes@lemmy.ml
- !memes@lemmy.world
- !memes@sopuli.xyz
- !memes@feddit.uk (uk memes)
- !meow_irl@sopuli.xyz
- !metalmemes@lemmy.world (metal music memes)
- !microblogmemes@lemmy.world
- !okmatewanker@feddit.uk
- !programmer_humor@programming.dev
- !raccoons@lemmy.world
- !relationshipmemes@lemmyis.fun
- !risa@startrek.website (star trek memes)
- !rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
- !science_memes@mander.xyz
- !simpsonsshitposting@sh.itjust.works
- !starwarsmemes@lemmy.world
- !tenforward@lemmy.world (star trek memes)
- !tumblr@lemmy.world
- !trippinthroughtime@lemmy.ca
- !witchymemes@lemmy.world
Misc
- !badrealestate@feddit.uk - awful real estate photos, has a decent amount of comments
- !tails@lemmon.website - posts from Mastodon users. Mostly memes and funny pics.
Photography
- !abandonedporn@reddthat.com
- !abstractphotography@lemmy.ml
- !accidentalrenaissance@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !analog@lemmy.world - really cool photography pics
- !bewowed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- !castles@lemm.ee
- !cozy_places@lemmy.world
- !earthporn@lemmy.ml
- !hiking@lemmy.world
- !natures_patterns@lemmy.world
- !oldschoolcool@lemmy.world
- !pics@lemmy.world
- !streetphotography@lemmy.world
- !travelphotography@lemmy.world
Wallpapers
- !animewallpapers@ani.social
- !mobilewallpaper@lemmy.world
- !wallpapers@lemmy.world
- !wallpapers@lemmy.ca
Games
Board Games / Table top games
The ttrpg.network instance has a lot of communities based around table top gaming & RPGs.
- !boardgames@feddit.de
- !dnd@lemmy.world
- !dndnext@ttrpg.network
- !jrpg@lemmy.zip
- !osr@lemm.ee
- !rpg@ttrpg.network
Chess
- !anarchychess@sopuli.xyz (funny chess)
- !Chess@lemmy.ml
Crosswords / Daily games
- !crossword@lemmy.world (daily crosswords)
- !dailygames@lemmy.zip
Video Games
- !dosgaming@retrolemmy.com
- !games@lemmy.world
- !gaming@lemmy.ml
- !gaming@lemmy.zip
- !nintendo@lemmy.world
- !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works (more conversation based than the others)
- !pcgaming@lemmy.ca
- !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world
- !pokemon@lemmy.ml
- !retrogaming@lemmy.world
- !steam@lemmy.ml
- !steamdeck@lemmy.ml (more news based)
- !steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
- !virtualreality@lemmy.world
Knowledge (e.g history, science)
- !archaeology@mander.xyz
- !biodiversity@mander.xyz
- !digitalbioacoustics@lemmy.world
- !history@lemmy.world
- !historyporn@lemmy.world
- !interestingasfuck@lemm.ee
- !interestingasfuck@lemmy.world
- !longreads@sh.itjust.works
- !palaeontology@mander.xyz
- !science@lemmy.ml
- !science@lemmy.world
- !til@lemmy.world
- !wikipedia@lemmy.world
Space
- !astronomy@mander.xyz
- !astrophotography@lemmy.world
- !perseverancerover@lemmy.world
- !space@lemmy.world
TV (television), movies, film
- !anime@lemmy.ml
- !bluey@lemmy.world
- !bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world
- !futurama@lemmy.world
- !marvelstudios@lemmy.world
- !movies@lemm.ee
- !movies@lemmy.world
- !moviesandtv@lemm.ee
- !moviesuggestions@lemmy.world
- !television@lemmy.world
- !quarks@startrek.website
- !scifi@kbin.social
- !sciencefiction@lemmy.world (note: covers science fiction across media, e.g games, tv, books, etc)
- !startrek@startrek.website
- !star_wars@lemmy.world
Music
Lots of music communities on Lemmy. Search Lemmyverse for genres of interest for more, this definitely isn't exhaustive.
Note that music communities generally have low comment counts, from my experience.
- I made a fuller list of British music genres/communities/artists here (e.g grime, dnb, jungle, uk hh, idm, rock/metal/punk, etc)
There's also:
- !80smusic@lemmy.world
- !90smusic@lemmy.world
- !classicrock@lemmy.world
- !dancehall@lemmy.world
- !guitars@lemmy.world
- !guitarpedals@lemmy.world
- !hiphopheads@sopuli.xyz
- !kpop@lemmy.world
- !music@lemmy.world
- !popheads@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
- !ska@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !thelyricsgame@lemmy.ca
- !vgmusic@lemmy.world
Previous
These communities have been removed from the list for not maintaining activity.
spoiler
- !AccidentalRenaissance@kbin.social
- !amoledbackgrounds@lemmy.world
- !asktheworld@lemm.ee
- !apocalypticart@feddit.de (migrated to !apocalypticart@discuss.tchncs.de)
- !battlemaps@lemmy.world
- !battlemaps@sh.itjust.works
- !battlemaps@ttrpg.network
- !cats@lemmy.world
- !casualconversation@lemmy.world (migrated to !casualconversation@lemm.ee)
- !cyberpunk@lemmy.villa-straylight.social
- !dailydoseofcute@lemmy.world
- !daystrominstitute@startrek.website
- !deserts@lemmy.world
- !dollhouse@lemmy.world
- !earthporn@lemmy.world
- !filmposterporn@lemmy.world (community was deleted/removed)
- !fountainpens@wayfarershaven.eu
- !gardening@thegarden.land
- !gatze@feddit.de
- !giftofgaming@lemmy.world
- !greentext@lemmy.ml
- !history@kbin.social
- !HistoryArtifacts@kbin.social
- !illegallysmolbirbs@mander.xyz
- !interesting@feddit.de
- !jellyfish@lemmy.world
- !jwst@lemmy.world
- !lasercutting@lemm.ee
- !moviesandtv@lemmy.film
- !nature@lemmy.world
- !occultmemes@lemmy.world
- !oddlyspecificplaylists@sh.itjust.works
- !old_maps@mander.xyz
- !pf2general@pathfinder.social
- !pictures@aussie.zone
- !pixelpassport@lemm.ee
- !pottery@lemmy.world
- !raining@sh.itjust.works
- !ramen@lemmy.world
- !reclaimedbynature@lemmy.world
- !reggae@lemmy.world
- !rpggreentext@ttrpg.network
- !shiba@lemmy.world
- !sideoftheroad@possumpat.io
- !space@kbin.social
- !spacepics@lemmy.world
- !SquaredCircle@kbin.social (migrated to !squaredcircle@lemmy.zip)
- !strassenfotografie@feddit.de
- !stonermemes@lemmy.beyondcombustion.net
- !veganhomecooks@lemmy.world (migrated to !homecooks@vegantheoryclub.org)
- !undergroundhiphop@lemmy.world
- !weddings@lemmy.world
Bonus: don't have time and want to just auto-subscribe to all (please note this isn't reversible without manually unsubbing yourself, there's a lot of niche communities here that may not appeal to you - you can remove them from the JSON file if needed)?
- On PC, download this JSON file
- On PC, download Lemmy Migration Tool (download the relevant .zip file)
- Unzip folder, run file. Lemmy Migration Tool will now be open, like in this pic.
- Note: in the
Settings
tab, you may wish to untick everything exceptUpload Community Subscriptions
. Failure to do so may result in your Lemmy settings being changed. - Click the
Upload
tab. Then, enter your instance name and login details, click the upload button and upload the JSON file. - It'll automatically subscribe you to them all. If it looks like it's frozen, it hasn't. Just let it run. If you're on a small instance, you may need to re-run it a couple times (it can error if your instance hasn't discovered the community yet, this is solved on a rerun).
Of course, some may not be of interest or may overload your feed (meme communities can do this). Unsubscribe as needed.
I wrote this list for a curious person on the other site. It took me awhile, figured I'd share. Finding these places takes more time than I'd care to admit so... hopefully it saves you some, Lol. It's not an exhaustive list by any means, but is mostly places I find of interest and/or I think has good content. But there's definitely others out there I have missed (either intentionally or not). Lemmyverse is a great resource for finding new places.
My rough criterion was:
- Of interest to me or a wide audience
- Has a decent amount of activity, at least a single page worth of posts.
- Casual / fun / interesting / cool / funny / chatty communities.
- 0 negativity/negative vibes, news, politics, overload of tech or niche tech news/info, etc.
35ReplyI'm surprised this doesn't clobber your existing subscriptions - I assume LASIM is smart enough to add the 'followed' list to what is already 'followed' rather than replace it?
7ReplyLASIM author here - you are correct. I explicitly made it "additive" to avoid accidents where you could end up erasing a bunch of subscriptions. Right now LASIM only calls the subscribe API interface so it's actually impossible for it to unsubscribe you from anything.
I am considering adding a "destructive" sync in the future which, if toggled on, would unsubscribe you from anything not in the JSON file. But it's not implemented yet!
16ReplyCorrect, though I'd be careful about adding such a list unless you're certain you won't mind all of these communities being added to your subscription list.
9Reply
I hadn't even considered this use case for LASIM, but that's really neat.
I've been thinking about a settings page where you can toggle what to sync, among a few other future features. I'll definitely add an option in the future to NOT sync the profile settings.
5ReplyYeah that would be great! Love the tool btw, I plug it whenever it's relevant
4Reply
For anyone finding this in the future:
The latest version of LASIM (0.2.1) has a Settings tab that allows you to choose what you want to upload.
If you are using the JSON file posted above, you'd want to choose just "Upload Community Subscriptions" on this tab so that your profile settings, etc. are not changed.
3Reply
Thanks for sharing!
23ReplyThis is the exact reason I follow this community. You are so awesome for putting in the work!
22ReplyCAN WE JUST AGREE ON ONE CFB SUB BEFORE THE SEASONS STARTS?!?!
Seriously, I need my toxic gameday threads.
17ReplyThere's a bunch more on Feddit.uk:
- !casualuk@feddit.uk and !CasualUK@kbin.social
- !recipes@feddit.uk
- !cooking_with_fire@feddit.uk
- !ukmusic@feddit.uk
- !ukmusic_rockpunk@feddit.uk
- !rockmusic@feddit.uk
- !gamebooks@feddit.uk
- !folkhorror@feddit.uk
- !britishtelly@feddit.uk
- !britishfilms@feddit.uk
- !britishcomics@feddit.uk
- !britishhorror@feddit.uk
- !britishwrestling@feddit.uk
edit: trimmed down a bit
15ReplyHonestly I avoided even looking for music communities for this list. After gathering a list of British music communities elsewhere, I couldn't bare to look again, Lol, but the music ones you mentioned are on that list.
5ReplyAh yes that's right - it's a great list, so much so I shared it to UK Music and we had a chat about festivals. Keep up the good work. 👍
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Thank you! I automatically block political communities and also news (because it's mostly American shitfuckery) and I don't like seeing it, it makes me feel like shit. Thanks for posting up some great suggestions.
12ReplyI'm in shock the apex, the non plus ultra, the creme, the queen of all communities movie and tv related isn't listed! Oh, the humanity!
You're welcome! 🤭
10Replyadded!
2ReplyI love you.
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There is big !homebrewing@sopuli.xyz community. Maybe add it too on rrredit it is 1mil+ subrredit.
10ReplyOutstanding resource! Thanks for taking the time to assemble this!
9ReplyDo you take suggestions for communities at all? I host some book related ones that are unrelated to those on there.
9ReplyFeel free to link them here :)
4ReplyOh hey there's a bunch more communities in my instance now, maybe link to some of em? I have a directory page !411@literature.cafe
1Reply
This is exactly what I've been looking for, hoping to find something other than memes/news.
Another pretty active one is:
!coffee@lemmy.world 7Replyadded :)
3Reply
Amazing dude, this definitely helps the community!
7ReplyNot one of my communities made it 🥺
6ReplyJust added a couple 😁
6ReplyThank you beautiful human! ❤
6ReplyI think these can be useful Tech support !techsupport@lemmy.world Products recommendations !recommendations@lemmy.world Software recommendations !softwareoptions@lemmy.world
6Reply
This is awesome. I hope you guys don't mind, heres a link to one of the bigger pro-wrestling "subs" on the fediverse. It's on Kbin instead of Lemmy, but there's more than a few Lemmy users among us. Here's the link:
6ReplyI'll add it!
3Replylol Thanks :) Kbin, Lemmy, or Mastodon--it doesn't matter to me, as long as we're all working together to build something better than the last place.
4Reply
Various other crafty hobby type communities listed at https://lemmy.world/post/1715954 too, for anyone mostly interested in that category of thing.
6Reply!52weeksofbaking@lemmy.world could use more engagement
6ReplyYou have bugmenagerie, but you missed !awwnverts@lemmy.world.
6ReplyAdded.
5Reply
It would be awesome if this became a monthly pinned thread.
5ReplyUnder hobbies, I run a community on gemstone faceting that I'm trying to get some traction on, can you add this to your list?
5Replyadded :)
3Reply
!bluey@lemmy.world -- one of the bigger TV show communities on lemmy.world
5ReplyAdded
3Reply
Permanently Deleted
5ReplyIs there a dad community like daddit was on Reddit?
4Reply!Daddit@kbin.social
10ReplyAwesome, thanks, just joined
3Reply
!Terrariums@kbin.social would fit under hobbies.
I'm hoping in the future it can grow and expand to other communities like bioactive. It's one of the niche communities I miss from reddit.
4ReplyI loved the reddit version of this! Would love to see it get a bit more activity
3Reply
maybe that's blatant self-advertising, but you might want to have a look at my origami community I created a few weeks ago (and if it isn't something for you, others might find it interesting)... no drama, no politics, just simple paper folding, I promise :)
Here's the link: !origami@feddit.de
4ReplyThis is a great list. Note, though, that lemmyverse.net (and by extension, !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl) are less useful at the current moment than before because lemmyverse needs an update before it can crawl the increasing numbers of instances on 0.19.4 or above.
4ReplyIndeed
1Reply
This thread is exactly what I needed. Thanks!
4ReplyCool! Thanks for adding !dosgaming@retrolemmy.com!
4ReplyThere's also !psychedelic_artwork@psychedelia.ink and !spirituality@psychedelia.ink on an instance I host if anyone is interested in those niches. But all in all this is a super amazing list thanks for taking the time to put it together!
3ReplyOooh thank you I love the spiritual quotes!!
4ReplyAwesome! No problem!
3Reply
I absolutely love !psychedelic_artwork@psychedelia.ink, just subbed!
3ReplyHell yeah!
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Reading & Writing
Video Games
Comics
Board Games / Table top games
3ReplyAdded a couple of these :)
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There is also: !foraging@lemm.ee, for those interested in all sharing their experiences and findings when going foraging. Feel free to join now that the foraging season is starting again! 🍄🫐🌰
Also, thanks for sharing this list, added a bunch I was interested in 🙌
3ReplyGreat list. Thanks for putting it together! Will definitely sub to a bunch here
3ReplyI really really hate the polarised politics, Elon Musk hatred and web integrity thing that gets showered here day in and day out. Honestly I'm tired of blocking the communities and users of that type
3ReplyThat's why I subscribed to a ton of communities! It's nice having a curated homefeed versus shifting through c/all
11Reply
This is a great list of communities! Nice to see that !illegallysmolbirbs@mander.xyz made it on here.
3ReplyThere's also plantclinic but I don't know how to type the whole address!
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May I propose c/cocktails be added under cooking, or food? And those should probably be consolidated. Thanks.
3ReplyAdded! And yes I probably should honestly
2Reply
Save
3ReplyPretty much all communities on beehaw are active enough
2ReplyThey're still defederated from lemmy.world unfortunately, so 🤷♂
2Reply
Absolutely outstanding contribution! Thank-you so much.
2ReplyThanks for the note on Faceting there. I read the community name and was like "face ting? Ooooh. Face ting!"
2ReplyReally nice list 👍 appreciated
2ReplyWait wait wait
Start wars memes hasn't already split between prequels and sequels?
2Replytechnically, !prequelmemes@lemmy.world and !prequelmemes@lemmy.ml exist, the first one is relatively active.
1Reply
I'd appreciate if you added !narrow@lemmy.world to the knowledge section
2ReplyNice one
4Reply
Amazing list, thanks for sharing it! Don't suppose you could add !football@lemmy.world? Would love to get some more activity over there.
1Reply 1ReplyI'm wondering where the NSFW is at!
1ReplyPruned and updated this list a bit. Feel free to let me know about places worth adding.
1ReplyThank you!
Could you please add !movies@lemm.ee to the movies section?
There is also
that might interest people
4ReplySure mate :)
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Hiphopheads
1Reply!hiphopheads@sopuli.xyz is already on here :)
3Reply
Also memes: !comedyheaven@lemmy.world
Reading/writing: !worldbuilding@lemmy.ml
1ReplySuper helpful and really well organized—thanks a bunch!
1ReplyGot anything for DIY, plumbing/carpentry etc... please?
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