Awa 33 points 3 years ago

This was asked today in another community, but still happy to share my favorites in hopes that others will enjoy:

All versions of TodayILearned (@kbin.social,@lemmy.world,@lemmy.ca,@lemmy.ml)

Any my personal (certainly non-biased) favorite

!futurama@lemmy.world

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MentalEdge 17 points 3 years ago

Hey, if you add a ! at the start of those, they will turn into working links for people on version 18.

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WhatASave 10 points 3 years ago

I'm on Jerboa and when I click it it asks if I want to open it in Gmail or Outlook lol. Still working out kinks!

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MentalEdge 3 points 3 years ago

It's better than the alternative, atm Jerboa crashes when you try to give it relative links... Open links to communities in is gonna need some updates.

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dandroid 4 points 3 years ago

For me (Lemmy version 0.18.0, Jerboa version 0.35), it follows the links, but gets all fucky. The header is correct for the community, but the posts are all from my default homepage (subscribed communities, sorted by hot). And if I click and posts, the app crashes.

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Awa 1 point 3 years ago

Good tip! Will do.

Edit: someone beat me to it!

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klieg2323 11 points 3 years ago

Formatted for easy navigation once your instance has upgraded to the current version. Clicking the link should take you to a version of the community linked from your instance. Feel free to comment with any broken links you know the answer to.

!AskKbin@kbin.social

!AskLemmy@lemmy.world

!BonVoyage@lemmy.world

!DadJokes@lemmy.world

GeneralDiscussin@lemmy.world

Incorrect link quoted above, use !general@lemmy.world for general discussion

!Natural_process_art@mander.xyz

!Reclaimedbynature@lemmy.world

!Science@kbin.social

All versions of TodayILearned (@kbin.social,@lemmy.world,@lemmy.ca,@lemmy.ml)

!todayilearned@kbin.social !todayilearned@lemmy.world !todayilearned@lemmy.ca !todayilearned@lemmy.ml

!YouShouldKnow@lemmy.world

Any my personal (certainly non-biased) favorite !Futurama@lemmy.world

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MentalEdge 4 points 3 years ago

General Discussion is the display name, that wont work, actual name is !general@lemmy.world

The rest work, but lemmy community names never have capital letters. (Kbin mags can tho)

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baconeater 4 points 3 years ago

Yes but you can't edit other people's posts...

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MentalEdge 1 point 3 years ago

ah, my bad

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Awa 3 points 3 years ago

Appreciate the correction, edited my first post to reflect this :)

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klieg2323 2 points 3 years ago

I am aware, however the only change i made to @Awa@lemmy.world's comment was adding the exclamation point so it's linkable. I don't know all the communities they were referring to so I couldn't apply a fix

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MentalEdge 2 points 3 years ago

Thanks for the reformat, tho it looks like OP is here to edit.

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Awa 2 points 3 years ago

I can fix this also... brb!

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coderjewel 2 points 3 years ago

Hey so I see there’s a few different instances for TodayILearned, are they all considered unique? Like would it be /TodayILearned1 /TodayILearned2 and so on if they were on Reddit, separate communities? Or are community names unique throughout the fediverse?

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klieg2323 10 points 3 years ago

They are considered unique communities although they could cover the same topic. It's a lot like an email address that way, you can have til@fake.server and til@different.fake. They are unique addresses, but they can have the same name before the at sign.

Something i would like to see in future development is some sort of multi-reddit type feature to combine multiple similar communities into one grouping

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coderjewel 3 points 3 years ago

Interesting. Well I’m rooting for federated services so we can’t have the rugs pulled out from under us again by large corporations.

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Awa 3 points 3 years ago

They are separate communities each on a different server. You will encounter a bunch of duplicate communities on various servers for the big topics (news, technology, gaming, etc.)

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Sir_Kevin 5 points 3 years ago

For now at least. I would imagine in time the duplicates may converge into one or the other.

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howdy 4 points 3 years ago

Oh, you got a few I haven't seen yet. Nice! Thank you.

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t0fr 2 points 3 years ago

Guess I missed it or am not in that community. Thanks!

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rm_dash_r_star 1 point 3 years ago

I'm liking all the ones I'm subscribed to right now, can't really nail down a favorite. Get a wide array of topics here, I was really pidgeon holed before because I'd get overloaded.

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MentalEdge 31 points 3 years ago

I like:

Ones I wish more people posted in:

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t0fr 10 points 3 years ago

Just thought I'd add that I've found startrek@startrek.website to be great and quite active

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thebardingreen 4 points 3 years ago

It's run by the r/startrek and r/daystrominstitute mods.

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klieg2323 1 point 3 years ago

Not necessarily a good thing...

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Awa 1 point 3 years ago

Yes. That's a good one. If you are a big Star Trek fan, visit their home instance. They also host the Daystrom Institute https://lemmy.world/... and Risa https://lemmy.world/c/risa@startrek.website communities.

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briongloid 10 points 3 years ago

I'm active on these;

!patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

!pcgaming@lemmy.fmhy.ml

!futurama@lemmy.world

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Erk 5 points 3 years ago

Oh hey cool, it looks like jerboa fixed those kind of links now! I can subscribe to your recommendations!

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briongloid 5 points 3 years ago

Lemmy 0.18 was a good update, made communities easier to link, next is posts/comment native linking.

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Erk 3 points 3 years ago

Ah yes some of this is definitely Lemmy rather than jerboa, jerboa just stopped a ctd bug stopping certain links so it became a double whammy of goodness.

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briongloid 3 points 3 years ago

Tbh, I felt Jerboa 0.35 was a step back, it no longer applies my profile default sorting on boot.

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klieg2323 1 point 3 years ago

I love that we have !futurama@lemmy.world it's one of my favorite shows and kinda makes the loss of reddit a bit easier on tv memeing.

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briongloid 4 points 3 years ago

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Azzu 9 points 3 years ago

I like !dota2@lemmy.world. It has a lot of posts with really high quality and there's lots of discussions happening in the comments.

I wish 😭 I'm so alone

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Ataraxia 1 point 3 years ago

That's a bummer. If I didn't loathe competitive mobas I'd join and try Dota instead of LOL but it gave me ptsd. It'll get better!

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Candelestine 8 points 3 years ago

https://lemmy.world/c/videoessays

It's not super active yet, but it's growing. Mainly I just like having a place to drop interesting video essays.

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t0fr 5 points 3 years ago

Thanks. Yeah I went, joined, and posted a video. That place should really be filled with more of Technology Connections

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klieg2323 4 points 3 years ago

For the lazy

!videoessays@lemmy.world

Adding an exclamation point at the beginning like that makes it friendly for remote instances. Anyone can click and subscribe no matter if they're on lemmy.world or not!

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Candelestine 2 points 3 years ago

ty. Appreciated.

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Evkob 8 points 3 years ago

I'm completely biased, but !bicycles@lemmy.ca has been very decently active!

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t0fr 2 points 3 years ago

Be biased! I've already joined and have been getting back into cycling this year

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TeaHands 8 points 3 years ago

It wouldn't be a replacement for that other site without:

(those last two have posts with megalists of related communities too, for gamedev and crafts respectively, check them out if you're interested in either topic)

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hiroyt 6 points 3 years ago

I like !foss@beehaw.org people there have good recommandations.

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hsl 6 points 3 years ago

I particularly enjoy !fountainpens@wayfarershaven.eu

Communities that I wish were more active:

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rm_dash_r_star 6 points 3 years ago

I'm liking all the ones I'm subscribed to right now, can't really nail down a favorite. Get a wide array of topics here, I was really pidgeon holed before because I'd get overloaded.

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WhatASave 6 points 3 years ago

Nothing specific but swapping to Lemmy I realized that it was a lot of big subs but not smaller video game subs :( so I guess in general if there are games you play, go be active in those communities!

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MentalEdge 2 points 3 years ago

I've found:

I'm also a mod on !titanfall@lemmy.world

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Moonguide 2 points 3 years ago

Ayy, hunt showdown! Thanks. I had found another hunt comm but it seemed dead.

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fr33man 1 point 3 years ago

The instance I am on (Lemmy.zip) seems to have a lot of game based communities. You can check it out to see if a community you're looking for exists or create your own.

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kartoffelsaft 1 point 3 years ago

There's !oldschoolminecraft@lemmy.world, which was hard to find for me because it didn't appear in Lemmy's builtin search. I had to use a search engine to get to it (and then use URL tricks to subscribe to it from my instance). Maybe try that for now?

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neo 5 points 3 years ago

!visualnovels@lemmy.comfysnug.space and associates.

disclaimer: im biased since i created that community

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krdo 4 points 3 years ago

These are some that I follow:

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t0fr 3 points 3 years ago

Another star trek fan I see. That community is really kicking off out of everything I've seen

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klieg2323 2 points 3 years ago

Ehh, old hold off judgment for now. There are some serious concerns about over moderation. I was banned recently for trying to discuss community standards when after making a post from a clickbaity site. Took out someone else too who agreed with me on a different community

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t0fr 2 points 3 years ago

Really? The Star Trek community? I can't say I've seen any of that

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klieg2323 1 point 3 years ago

Yep! Mods have done a good job burying it. Check the modlog, you'll be able to see any moderator action an reasoning for communities you are subscribed to (or maybe that your instance federated to, I'm not exactly sure).

I tried to do a level headed take over at !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world encompassing my experience. I'm sure it came across as whiny to some people. We've all got preconceptions of posts calling out mods for overreach so I understand

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MonkeyJunk 2 points 3 years ago

Nice, I do like retro gaming and trek!

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RickyRigatoni 1 point 3 years ago

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hoodlem 4 points 3 years ago

Frasier@lemmy.world

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klieg2323 2 points 3 years ago

Try adding an exclamation mark at the beginning to make it linkable like you could /r/subreddit

!frasier@lemmy.world

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Zorro 1 point 3 years ago

Yours has the exclamation mark but actually isn't clickable here on jerboa. Weird cause some links are clickable and others aren't

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klieg2323 3 points 3 years ago

It might be something Jerboa still needs to implement. From what I understand, this was part of the new update to Lemmy. Only servers that have updated have this feature, not all have because they had to temporarily remove captcha. I don't know if it's something to do with jerboa, or the instance you're on but it will eventually become clickable as servers update.

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markovianparallax 4 points 3 years ago

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TheRedBadger 2 points 3 years ago

Just did, thanks for the recommendation!

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BryonyPlato 3 points 3 years ago

I’ve really enjoyed joining the !frasier community. Active community and growing

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Maven 2 points 3 years ago

I'm definitely biased here but

!onlythepunchline@lemmy.world !withoutthepunchline@lemmy.world

Are definitely my two favorites and I would love if more people posted so it wasn't just me.

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dpunked 2 points 3 years ago

I really like our little boardgame community over at !boardgames@feddit.de

(Of course I am biased)

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t0fr 3 points 3 years ago

You can be biased and promote. I'm already subbed there and have participated. Board games have been so much fun. I need to have people over to play some Wingspan again. And to play some of the Unstable Unicorn games that I haven't tried yet

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dpunked 1 point 3 years ago

Still need to get my hands on wingspan but. I heard good things!

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t0fr 2 points 3 years ago

It's really fun! I love it. You can always try it out on Tabletop Simulator first

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FancyGUI 1 point 3 years ago

!selfhosted@lemmy.world is a favorite