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📚 Guide | How to find a community? How to promote a community?

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

🙌 Communities for discovering new communities

::: spoiler 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:

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🌐 Instances to look through

::: spoiler 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

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🔎 Search Engines

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

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🔥 Apps and Browser Extensions

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

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👽 Coming from Reddit?

::: spoiler See here

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