NRSK made a small website to introduce new users to the basics of Lemmy and give them an (incomplete) list of Lemmy Communities.
Hopefully this will help users find a lot of interesting content across the network, despite the home instance not federating with a particular community yet.
Such a list was something that was sorely missed when the NRSK administrator first became a user on the lemmyverse, and quite so after creating a new and isolated instance.
As mentioned, it is an unofficial site and if the devs disapprove, I can make the "unofficialness" of it clearer or discuss how we can make it work.
Manually sorting, cataloguing and estimating activity on 283 communities sure was something.
That's why everybody is welcome to contribute to the list by submitting your own suggestions and corrections in the linked community. As of now the list is curated manually, I assume I've made several errors - Particularly when it comes to what "Topic" the different communities belong in.
Yes, you can sort nearly 300 communities by:
- Topic
- Name
- Instance
- Activity
- Recommendation
A lot of it could have been scraped the first time around I assume, but then there'd be no sorting by topic for sure.
You can visit the "Welcome" community by following the post link or visit https://nrsk.no/c/welcome.
Link to the website
Link to the big list of communities
I see what you mean, I thought you were talking about when they promoted lemmy.ml first.
I don't agree with random. People should be able to at least look for a community that suits their interests.
Someone focused on arts and crafts would probably have a better time at fapsi.be. It can be a make-or-break first experience for new users.
If I remember correctly mastodon tags instances? so join-lemmy could do that too and randomize the instances in a category/tag itself, and randomize sorting the categories
What about a “Pick random general instance” button?
Sure. I was even thinking "what if instances are able to set their own tags to really express what they're all about"? But then I remembered... The servers are able to set their own description that's shown on join-lemmy.
but descriptions are not as easily filterable. tags, be it set by the servers or not, are simple enough and do a better job at this, while still showing other information like the description.