A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics)
Searching Lemmyverse is good for finding communities. !trendingcommunities 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)!
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
- 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
Casual chat / Misc
- !cafe - casual chat community. Worth noting that the instance (and likely most users) are Malaysian.
- !casualconversation
- !edc (chat about things you carry everyday)
- !frugal
- !mildlyinteresting
- !showerthoughts
- !ukcasual
Hobbies, Creative, Passions
Misc
- !3dprinting
- !faceting (gemstone cutting)
- !imadethis
- !lasercutting
- !pottery
- !tabletopminis
- !woodworking
Artwork
(see also the list under the Wallpapers header)
- !ai_art
- !albumartporn
- !artshare - for artists to share their own work, more amateur than the others
- !artporn
- !apocalypticart
- !digitalart
- !imageai
- !hobbit_art - Lord of the Rings/Hobbit related art
- !psychedelic_artwork
- !traditional_art
Cooking, food, drinks
Generally mostly nice pics of food:
Gardening / Plants
Keyboard enthusiasts
Knitting, Stitching, Crocheting, etc
Reading and Writing
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
- !aww
- !awwnverts
- !bats
- !beebutts
- !birding
- !bugmenagerie
- !bugs
- !cat
- !cats
- !cats
- !dogs
- !foxes
- !gatze
- !illegallysmolcats
- !illegallysmolbirbs
- !jellyfish
- !quackers
- !squirrels
- !superbowl
- !spiders
- !wildlifephotography
Comics
Flags
Maps
Memes
Meme communities in general can overload your feed, so keep that in mind.
- !196 (lgbt memes)
- !animalswithjobs
- !animemes
- !best_of_mastodon
- !boneappletea
- !curatedtumblr
- !dnd_memes
- !fakehistoryporn
- !foundsatan
- !funny
- !greentext
- !historymemes
- !lotrmemes
- !memes - note: this will 100% overload your feed.
- !memes
- !memes
- !memes (uk memes)
- !meow_irl
- !metalmemes (metal music memes)
- !microblogmemes
- !occultmemes
- !programmer_humor
- !raccoons
- !relationshipmemes
- !risa (star trek memes)
- !rpggreentext
- !rpgmemes
- !science_memes
- !simpsonsshitposting
- !starwarsmemes
- !stonermemes
- !trippinthroughtime
- !witchymemes
Misc
- !badrealestate - awful real estate photos, has a decent amount of comments
- !sideoftheroad - interesting things on the side of the road
Photography
- !abandonedporn
- !accidentalrenaissance
- !AccidentalRenaissance
- !analog - really cool photography pics
- !bewowed
- !castles
- !cozy_places
- !deserts
- !earthporn
- !earthporn
- !hiking
- !natures_patterns
- !oldschoolcool
- !raining
- !reclaimedbynature
- !streetphotography
- !strassenfotografie
- !travelphotography
Wallpapers
Games
Board Games / Table top games
The ttrpg.network instance has a lot of communities based around table top gaming & RPGs.
note: the battlemaps communities seem to mostly cross-post between eachother at the moment.
Chess
- !anarchychess (funny chess)
- !Chess
Video Games
- !dosgaming
- !games
- !gaming
- !gaming
- !giftofgaming
- !patientgamers (more conversation based than the others)
- !pcgaming
- !pokemon
- !retrogaming
- !steam
- !steamdeck (more news based)
- !steamdeck
- !virtualreality
Knowledge (e.g history, science)
- !archaeology
- !biodiversity
- !digitalbioacoustics
- !history
- !history
- !HistoryArtifacts
- !historyporn
- !interesting
- !interestingasfuck
- !longreads
- !palaeontology
- !science
- !science
- !til
Space
TV (television), movies, film
- !bluey
- !cyberpunk (includes convos about Cyberpunk across different media styles)
- !daystrominstitute - in-depth conversations about Star Trek
- !futurama
- !movies
- !moviesandtv (very active community for all things movies & TV)
- !television
- !quarks
- !scifi
- !sciencefiction (note: covers science fiction across media, e.g games, tv, books, etc)
- !startrek
- !star_wars
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:
- !dancehall
- !guitars
- !guitarpedals
- !hiphopheads
- !kpop
- !music
- !oddlyspecificplaylists
- !popheads
- !reggae
- !ska
- !undergroundhiphop
Previous
These communities have been removed from the list for not maintaining activity.
spoiler
- !asktheworld
- !dailydoseofcute
- !dollhouse
- !filmposterporn (community was deleted/removed)
- !nature
- !old_maps
- !pictures
- !pixelpassport
- !shiba
- !weddings