If you haven’t already, go to the hamburger menu -> communities -> all.
The list should show you how many people have subscribed and how many posts and comments are in each community.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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This community is for NZ discussion about random non-NZ things, or whatever you want! Shitposts, circlejerks, memes, something you found funny, anything goes!*
*except for:
- anything against the global instance CoC
- anything too controversial (keep it light-hearted)
If you want to have a serious political discussion, take it to !politics@lemmy.nz.
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The NZ communities from this instance seem to be quite high up the list.
I'm not sure how the ranking works, but it might be based on people from our instance subscribing. I'm pretty sure the "subscribed" is only showing the lemmy.nz subscribers, so probably better to look at the active users to see which ones are popular across Lemmy.
In case you missed it, there's now an FAQ: https://lemmy.nz/post/31318
And another user found this helpful video explaining Lemmy, and it also covers a little about finding communities not on your instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6xCw9zb5kw
Other than that, there are lots (and more all the time), so it depends what you're into. Here are a few active ones:
There's the community browser at https://browse.feddit.de/ which is searchable, lists communities from lots of instances, and shows post/subscriber count for each
The list of "all" communities on this instance will only include those that have been subscribed by at least one user on this instance
I've set up !nzwildlife@no.lastname.nz over on my instance and would be willing to set up other NZ based communities that don't fit here.
I'll leave Dave with NZ and the local area communities seems as he was first up for NZ
I feel like we're gonna need a suggested communities list. Is a pinned post the best way to handle it? Non-pinned post that's linked in the sidebar? Something else?
On reddit you'd probably link to a wiki page from the sidebar, but Lemmy doesn't have wiki functionality (yet).