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 --> [email protected]
- Anime --> [email protected]
- Art --> [email protected], [email protected]
- Ask Lemmy --> [email protected]
- Gaming --> [email protected], [email protected]
- General --> [email protected], [email protected]
- Green --> slrpnk.net, [email protected], [email protected]
- Cryptocurrency --> [email protected]
- Fediverse --> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
- Late Stage Capitalism, futurology etc. --> [email protected]
- Libre Culture --> [email protected]
- Linux --> [email protected]
- Memes --> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
- Music --> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
- Open Source --> [email protected]
- Piracy --> [email protected]
- Politics --> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
- Political Humor --> [email protected]
- Privacy --> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
- Programming language communities --> [email protected]
- Self-Hosting --> [email protected], [email protected]
- Socialism --> [email protected], [email protected]
- Science --> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] [email protected]
- Technology --> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
- Videos --> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
- World News --> [email protected]
- Misc --> [email protected]
Anime --> [email protected]
Broken link? Doesn’t work anymore. If you’ll be replacing an alternative, I suggest not substituting it with [email protected] as that one’s owned by an infamous subreddit hoarder on Reddit.
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.
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.
