I will answer this question in the negative way: Do not only join the most popular ones, there are some hidden gems buried under the popularity rankings.
Scroll through !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and similar comms (dedicated to user to user promotion of communities) and find communities organically instead of using the ranking
A personal favourite of mine is !pocketknife@lemmy.world, and I’m not even really into knives. It’s not the busiest community but the posts are consistently entertaining, informative, and well written so highly recommend
I poked around at a couple other instances and didn’t find any. Unfortunately, I’m not willing to spend the time right now to go through the comms lists and create them myself.
Nah as lemy.lol user I can see their posts I guess. And .ml can also visit their comms. It is not like you are missing on out much besides tankie circle-jerking Maduro supporters.
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greenbelt@lemy.lol · 17 pts · 227d
I will answer this question in the negative way: Do not only join the most popular ones, there are some hidden gems buried under the popularity rankings.
claim_arguably@lemdro.id · 8 pts · 227d
Like what?
greenbelt@lemy.lol · 8 pts · 227d
Scroll through !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and similar comms (dedicated to user to user promotion of communities) and find communities organically instead of using the ranking
wabasso@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 227d
Ok but I also want word of mouth. What are some of yours?
victorz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 227d
Subscribed! ty
felsiq@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 226d
A personal favourite of mine is !pocketknife@lemmy.world, and I’m not even really into knives. It’s not the busiest community but the posts are consistently entertaining, informative, and well written so highly recommend
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 227d
!dull_mens_club@lemmy.world and !dullsters@dullsters.net
fakasad68@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 226d
c/AskLemmy
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 226d
My survival horror community.
Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 227d
!main@hexbear.net
!podcasts@hexbear.net
!askchapo@hexbear.net
!news@hexbear.net
!technology@hexbear.net
!history@hexbear.net
!politics@hexbear.net
!announcements@hexbear.net
!commrequest@hexbear.net
!games@hexbear.net
!transenby_liberation@hexbear.net
!literature@hexbear.net
!art@hexbear.net
!electoralism@hexbear.net
!feedback@hexbear.net
!music@hexbear.net
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!em_poc@hexbear.net
!anti_cishet_aktion@hexbear.net
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!earth@hexbear.net
!chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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!libre@hexbear.net
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!cars@hexbear.net
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Zomg@piefed.world · 9 pts · 227d
That's a good joke, thanks for the laughs stranger
greenbelt@lemy.lol · 8 pts · 227d
Is there a reason you only advertise hexbear communities? Is lemdroid.io even federated with them?
Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 227d
I don’t have another full list of comms handy, let me see if I can dig one up.
Zomg@piefed.world · 3 pts · 227d
Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 227d
I poked around at a couple other instances and didn’t find any. Unfortunately, I’m not willing to spend the time right now to go through the comms lists and create them myself.
mitram@sopuli.xyz · -1 pts · 227d
I believe hexbear has defederated with everyone.
culprit@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 227d
https://sopuli.xyz/instances
https://hexbear.net/instances
your instance has about 3x long block list actually lmao
mitram@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 227d
I wasn't criticizing. I apparently mixed up some old posts and assumed they actually defederated.
Happy to see I was wrong.
greenbelt@lemy.lol · -4 pts · 227d
Nah as lemy.lol user I can see their posts I guess. And .ml can also visit their comms. It is not like you are missing on out much besides tankie circle-jerking Maduro supporters.
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 227d