Few more listed on the links here
fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/…/how-to-find-communiti…
mander.xyz is nice for all the STEM communities
Comment on What do you think might be some fun, positive ways for instances to distinguish themselves?
wjs018@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am a big fan of content-specific instances. Some instances off the top of my head that fit this description:
- bookwormstory.social - Instance about the Ascendance of a Bookworm series
- ani.social - Instance about anime/manga/Japanese media
- slrpnk.net - Instance focused on the climate crisis and related issues
- programming.dev - Instance focused on software development
- startrek.website - Instance about Star Trek
- literature.cafe - Instance about books and writing
…and I am sure there are many others. I just think that having a focus like that provides a more interesting local instance environment than a large, generalist instance.
otter@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Crazy that there’s an instance about Ascendance of a Bookworm. I’ve just been reading this!
jqubed@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes, like I just learned about gearhead.town which is focused on vehicles (cars, motorcycles, etc.), which is an idea I’d had myself but I’m nowhere near skilled enough to operate an instance right now.
yawn@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
The nice thing with these instances is content discovery (easy to find more communities about a single topic), but there’s a downside as well: they create a lot of centralization in Lemmy.
If you’re mostly on Lemmy for a specific topic, and one instance has consolidated almost all discussion around that topic, then your entire Lemmy experience is controlled by a single instance. In other words, despite the whole network being decentralized, users in such situations are still getting effectively the same kind of downsides they would get on something like Reddit.