Bonus: don't have time and want to just auto-subscribe to all (please note this isn't reversible without manually unsubbing yourself, there's a lot of niche communities here that may not appeal to you - you can remove them from the JSON file if needed)?

• On PC, download this JSON file
• On PC, download Lemmy Migration Tool (download the relevant .zip file)
• Unzip folder, run file. Lemmy Migration Tool will now be open, like in this pic.
• Note: in the Settings tab, you may wish to untick everything except Upload Community Subscriptions. Failure to do so may result in your Lemmy settings being changed.
• Click the Upload tab. Then, enter your instance name and login details, click the upload button and upload the JSON file.
• It'll automatically subscribe you to them all. If it looks like it's frozen, it hasn't. Just let it run. If you're on a small instance, you may need to re-run it a couple times (it can error if your instance hasn't discovered the community yet, this is solved on a rerun).

Of course, some may not be of interest or may overload your feed (meme communities can do this). Unsubscribe as needed.

I wrote this list for a curious person on the other site. It took me awhile, figured I'd share. Finding these places takes more time than I'd care to admit so... hopefully it saves you some, Lol. It's not an exhaustive list by any means, but is mostly places I find of interest and/or I think has good content. But there's definitely others out there I have missed (either intentionally or not). Lemmyverse is a great resource for finding new places.

My rough criterion was:

• Of interest to me or a wide audience
• Has a decent amount of activity, at least a single page worth of posts.
• Casual / fun / interesting / cool / funny / chatty communities.
• 0 negativity/negative vibes, news, politics, overload of tech or niche tech news/info, etc.

Thanks for sharing!

This is the exact reason I follow this community. You are so awesome for putting in the work!

CAN WE JUST AGREE ON ONE CFB SUB BEFORE THE SEASONS STARTS?!?!

Seriously, I need my toxic gameday threads.

There's a bunch more on Feddit.uk:

• !casualuk@feddit.uk and !CasualUK@kbin.social
• !recipes@feddit.uk
• !cooking_with_fire@feddit.uk
• !ukmusic@feddit.uk
• !ukmusic_rockpunk@feddit.uk
• !rockmusic@feddit.uk
• !gamebooks@feddit.uk
• !folkhorror@feddit.uk
• !britishtelly@feddit.uk
• !britishfilms@feddit.uk
• !britishcomics@feddit.uk
• !britishhorror@feddit.uk
• !britishwrestling@feddit.uk

edit: trimmed down a bit

Thank you! I automatically block political communities and also news (because it's mostly American shitfuckery) and I don't like seeing it, it makes me feel like shit. Thanks for posting up some great suggestions.

I'm in shock the apex, the non plus ultra, the creme, the queen of all communities movie and tv related isn't listed! Oh, the humanity!

!moviesandtv@lemmy.film

You're welcome! 🤭

Outstanding resource! Thanks for taking the time to assemble this!

There is big !homebrewing@sopuli.xyz community. Maybe add it too on rrredit it is 1mil+ subrredit.

Do you take suggestions for communities at all? I host some book related ones that are unrelated to those on there.

Amazing dude, this definitely helps the community!

This is exactly what I've been looking for, hoping to find something other than memes/news.
Another pretty active one is:
!coffee@lemmy.world

You have bugmenagerie, but you missed !awwnverts@lemmy.world.

Not one of my communities made it 🥺

This is awesome. I hope you guys don't mind, heres a link to one of the bigger pro-wrestling "subs" on the fediverse. It's on Kbin instead of Lemmy, but there's more than a few Lemmy users among us. Here's the link:

Squaredcircle

Various other crafty hobby type communities listed at https://lemmy.world/post/1715954 too, for anyone mostly interested in that category of thing.

!52weeksofbaking@lemmy.world could use more engagement

Under hobbies, I run a community on gemstone faceting that I'm trying to get some traction on, can you add this to your list?

!faceting@lemmy.world

!bluey@lemmy.world -- one of the bigger TV show communities on lemmy.world

TV and film:

• !babylon5@sh.itjust.works
• !blackmirror@lemmy.world
• !boutiquebluray@lemmy.world
• !doctorwho@lemmy.world
• !dune@lemmy.world
• !futurama@lemmy.world
• !taskmaster@feddit.uk
• !tmnt@lemmy.world

Is there a dad community like daddit was on Reddit?

This thread is exactly what I needed. Thanks!

This is a great list. Note, though, that lemmyverse.net (and by extension, !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl) are less useful at the current moment than before because lemmyverse needs an update before it can crawl the increasing numbers of instances on 0.19.4 or above.

!Terrariums@kbin.social would fit under hobbies.

I'm hoping in the future it can grow and expand to other communities like bioactive. It's one of the niche communities I miss from reddit.

It would be awesome if this became a monthly pinned thread.

Cool! Thanks for adding !dosgaming@retrolemmy.com!

Reading & Writing

• !bookclub@lemmy.world

Video Games

• !retrogaming@lemmy.world
• !gamedeals@lemmy.world

Comics

• !comicbooks@lemmy.world

Board Games / Table top games

• !magictcg@lemmy.world