Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world Blaze @discuss.tchncs.de 1y ago

People looking for content outside of news, tech, memes and politics, do you know where to find communities?

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.

[email protected] (1.6k MAU)
[email protected] (521 MAU)
[email protected] (453 MAU)
[email protected] (140 MAU)
[email protected] (133 MAU)
[email protected] (130 MAU)
[email protected] (69 MAU)
[email protected] (56 MAU)
[email protected] (31 MAU)
[email protected] (24 MAU)
[email protected] (12 MAU)
[email protected] (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: [email protected]. People tend to promote their communities there, you can also ask for a community you are looking for.

Finally, [email protected] provides a daily report of communities becoming popular.

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I’m getting tired of Musk, left wing news stories and left wing memes myself

I’ll join these communities simply because lemmy seems so one dimensional looking through my feed.

If there is non-political content here, I’d appreciate it being brought more to the front, at least for my own feed.

I’m hoping for more diverse topics than what seems to hit all day after day. To the point where I’m usually not even logging in as often as I could be.

The topics are boring, one sided and just … lame
- If there is non-political content here, I’d appreciate it being brought more to the front, at least for my own feed.
  
  That's the main issue Lemmy has right now. I blocked myself all news, politics, memes and almost tech, because it was just... too much.
  
  Probably due to the relatively small user base, it just isn't as diverse as some websites. But, even reddit had the issue of the front page being flooded with political posts from one perspective. So as nice as it would be not to, lemmy is probably going to be the same way. It just might highlight a slightly different perspective from reddit
  
  It might be for sure due to the small user base, and also the lack of algorithm.
  
  I don't know how Hot is set up, but it's quite hard for a post from a random small community to pop up.
  
  I know people dislike content algorithm, but in this of cases we might be needing something to make content more discoverable.
  
  Yeah tbh I think people totally misunderstand algorithms. I mean, hot is driven by an algorithm, as are the other sort methods, too, albeit simple algorithms. What we really want to avoid are profit-driven and invasive algorithms. But algorithms to boost discoverability for small communities could be really beneficial
  
  I agree!
- I started using Sync, despite disagreeing with their privacy policy, just so I can block entire instances, and use filter words. I've added Musk, Trump, Politics, Twitter, and a bunch of other filter words to my block list, then filtered hexbear completely, and a couple of other problematic, one-dimensional instances, and Lemmy is a lot more enjoyable now. It's okay reading about those subjects occasionally, but my feed was like 95% filled with those topics. Some of them aren't even topics that would normally bother me, but it was like every single post.
- If you want neutral memes you can come over to [email protected]
  
  We're for memes with humor that's so bad it's ironically funny. A bit niche but at least you get a break from politics
- “I only want to see the politics that I agree with” A tale as old as time. Plenty of knockoff right wing reddits/twitters out there.
  
  He specifically said he wants less politics, not politics he agrees with. He hasn't given you any reason to attack him, but you did so anyways.
  
  I said that after looking at his comment history and seeing a ton of right wing talking points being tossed out on other instances. Sure didn’t seem like he wanted less politics to me!
  
  I mean, I’d love to talk to people who don’t think like I do.
  
  Unfortunately, that’s not really how it ends up working out.

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