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📚 Guide | How to find a community? How to promote a community? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by otter@lemmy.ca to c/newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

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Copying over the guide from !communityPromo@lemmy.ca so it's more accessible here

🙌 Communities for discovering new communities

Stay subscribed to these to learn about more communities passively

!communitypromo@lemmy.ca (alternate link)
- Promote your favourite communities here
- Ask about a community you are looking for &nbsp
!trendingcommunities@feddit.nl (alternate link)
- Regular posts with ALL the trending communities from across the threadiverse
!newcommunities@lemmy.world (alternate link)
- Learn about communities that are new / being rebooted
!communityspotlight@lemmy.world (alternate link)
- We pick two communities a week (one lemmy.world, and one from another instance) to highlight each week
Other communities, some of which are less active:

🌐 Instances to look through

You can find communities from specific instances

A great way to find lesser known communities is to look at the /communities page on an instance. Different instances may have different themes or focuses, and so you can find related communities that way.

For example: https://lemmy.ca/communities

pangora.social: Great way to find instances related to a particular topic. This is also great for picking an instance when first making an account/moving accounts.
awesome-lemmy-instances

🔎 Search Engines

When you have a topic in mind, but don't know if a community exists for it

https://lemmyverse.net/communities
https://browse.feddit.de/ (run by feddit.de)

🔥 Apps and Browser Extensions

These can make it easier to find, subscribe, and manage communities on different instances

Instance Assistant: Browser extension with tools to help you redirect and search for communities
Voyager Migrator: Tool to help you migrate Subreddits
Other apps: https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/

👽 Coming from Reddit?

See here

sub.rehab: You can sort by official replacements & sister communities
redditmigration.com: List from the migration
quippd.com: Another list created by a user during the migration

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[–] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

!newcommunities@lemmy.world now has regular topic-focused threads, so even better