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My list of communities new users might consider, sorted in categories (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by rob299@lemmy.world to c/newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

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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.

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[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!

[–] rob299@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That explains why that when I searched for it from Lemmy.world it still showed up. There does need to be indication if an instance is limited it shouldn't be up to users to just simply know, not everyone keeps up with the fediverse news or knows what the best news sources are yet for fediverse regarding things like this. A simple indication of pottential limitations of instance would solve this best.

I've edited the post earlier with a different community for gaming.

[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's not ideal at all, one of many MANY improvements on the todo list I'm sure 😄