1y ago

My list of communities new users might consider, sorted in categories

An easily accessible list of communities with links and inputted descriptions from the op poster. edit: changed gaming community from beehaw to Lemmy.ml hopefully it'll be more easilly accessible.

tech/gaming news related communities:

!technology@lemmy.world Keep up with the latest technology news
!fediverse@lemmy.ml Keep up with the latest fediverse updates
!linux@lemmy.ml
Linux content, could be news or something random
!gaming!gaming@lemmy.ml Keep up with the latest gaming news content

fun and amusement communities:

!foodporn@lemmy.world random pictures of food, could help inspire a meal. don't worry it is safe for work despite the potentially misleading name.
!asklemmy@lemmy.world ask whatever floats your boat to Lemmy users available to answer your questions.
!lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world post or consume some wholesome material.
!bestoflemmy@lemmy.ml a currated list of some of the best Lemmy content.

Lemmy help and support

!newtolemmy@lemmy.ca For if you're really really new to Lemmy.
!lemmy_support@lemmy.ml free costumer support for Lemmy?
!lemmyapps@lemmy.world learn, discuss or ask about Lemmy apps.

9 comments

Nice little starter list for the techy folks, although I'd question the inclusion of a beehaw community since so many newbies are going to be unable to access that one and might get confused. Maybe a disclaimer or something, if you don't want to use a more available gaming community?
- OP's account is only 3 days old, they might not know that beehaw is defederated from a lot of instances.
  
  Good catch! In that case, also welcome OP 😄
- I appologise for the beehaw community, it did act a little weird as I was trying to link to it. Can someone explain why it wouldn't work like others, as i'm working on replacing it with another one.
  
  Basically what happened is Beehaw decided they'd rather be their own thing and defederated (essentially cut themselves off from) some of the biggest instances, including lemmy.world where your account is. So a very significant chunk of Lemmy users can't see activity from Beehaw users, and vice versa.
  What makes it confusing is that if you visit one of their communities from a defederated instance, there's no real indication that you're blocked. So it's just an unnecessary layer of complexity for newbies, was my worry.
  That said there are active gaming communities everywhere, search on https://lemmyverse.net/communities for "games" or "gaming" and there are plenty of results. I'm partial to !games@sh.itjust.works personally!