is there a community for finding communies?

Is there a place I can go on lemmy where I can say "is there a community/magazine that has people's weird ideas they thought of in the shower" and if anyone knows of a place they'll point you to it?

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Sami@lemmy.zip · 30 pts · 3y (1 reply)
Granixo@feddit.cl · -11 pts · 3y

This 👆

Emperor@feddit.uk · 18 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Try these:

  • !findacommunity@lemmy.ml
  • !communitysearchtips@lemmy.ninja
otter@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Also !lemmy411@lemmy.ca (or https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmy411) and !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca (or https://lemmy.ca/c/wowthislemmyexists)

There's a pinned post in 411 with more

CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 3y

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !lemmy411@lemmy.ca, !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca

bilb@lem.monster · 15 pts · 3y (6 replies)

https://lemmyverse.net/ seems better than a community for this tee bee aych

CloverSi@lemmy.comfysnug.space · 5 pts · 3y (5 replies)

That's useful too, but sometimes it's hard to find them by keyword. Plus if the answer to a post is 'there is no community' and the post gets popular, it can be a nice way to kickstart the creation of a new community.

marsara9@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y (4 replies)

https://www.search-lemmy.com/ ?

I'm open to feedback though if the search results seem out of order etc....

CloverSi@lemmy.comfysnug.space · 1 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Oh hey, this is great! Nice work, it found some pretty obscure communities in a few tests. I wish there was a megathread somewhere for Lemmy/fediverse tools like this.

SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)
CloverSi@lemmy.comfysnug.space · 2 pts · 3y

wow, ask and I shall receive! thanks!

marsara9@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Same. Honestly I need to create a community just for this tool IMO. But I don't have the time to moderate it.

Seraphin@pawb.social · 12 pts · 3y (4 replies)

If you're coming over from reddit, try https://sub.rehab/

It lists most of the popular subs and their fediverse equivalents. E.g. the community you're looking for sounds like Reddit's r/showerthoughts, which has

https://kbin.social/m/showerthoughts

https://lemmy.world/c/showerthoughts

https://squabbles.io/s/showerthoughts

communities in the fediverse.

Even if you haven't used reddit, a lot of the sub names are pretty self-explanatory apart from some of the cryptic/memey named ones.

CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world · 5 pts · 3y

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !showerthoughts@lemmy.world

PerfectStranger@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Thank you for the tip! I see you linked to squabbles. Does squabbles require a separate register/login? I can't seem to figure out how to subscribe to it using my lemmy account.

Deuces@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
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Seraphin@pawb.social · 1 pts · 3y

As far as I can tell I think it does require a separate login. I'm still relatively new to the fediverse and had a friend recommend squabbles, but I've already made an account here so have been trying to figure this out too tbh. Hopefully someone can correct me if it is possible.

SmarfDurden@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y (2 replies)

!trendingcommunities@feddit.nl

orbital@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

You may want to put an exclamation point (!) in front of that community name, to make it clickable. Thanks for pointing it out.

SmarfDurden@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

I tried doing that but it doesn’t seem to make it clickable lol so I took it off thinking I did it wrong

Ocelot@lemmies.world · 3 pts · 3y