Map of 2000+ Lemmy communities

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DerasLTU@reddit

It's interesting how Hexbear and Lemmy grad (bottom left) are so far isolated from the rest of Lemmy.

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BlazeAlt@reddit (OP)

Indeed, and reflects how it feels too.

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BlazeAlt@reddit (OP)

For people wanting to join Lemmy

Go to https://lemm.ee/
Register an account
If you want to use an app, there are a lot of options on https://www.lemmyapps.com/, general recommendations are Sync, Boost and Voyager (Apollo clone)
Remember to use "lemm.ee" as your instance when you log in on the app

That's it. Lemmy is very similar to Reddit: threads, comments, votes. If you have questions, feel free to go to https://lemm.ee/c/newtolemmy@lemmy.ca and ask them.

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MaleficentFig7578@reddit

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/Piracy is noteworthy because spez banned the moderator who made this community and then replaced the Piracy subreddit moderator list.

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LibertyLizard@reddit

Interesting although the repeated color scheme makes it hard to interpret.

Disappointed to see how integrated Lemmy.ml is. I think it’s time to push for a bigger separation from that instance from the rest of the community.

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BlazeAlt@reddit (OP)

Network effect is still there. !privacy@lemm.ml alternatives are much less active for instance, same for a lot of open source projects.

It's okay for now.

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TheConquistaa@reddit

Wasn't !privacyguides@lemmy.one the OG replacement for /r/PrivacyGuides which, in turn, was endorsed by so many digital promoting privacy YouTubers like Techlore or The Hated One?

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They also have a Discourse forum. I posted there in June about their Lemmy instance no answer since: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/we-re-giving-lemmy-a-try-welcome-to-privacyguides-lemmy-one-x-post/12734

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TheConquistaa@reddit

It would be great if their Discourse forum was federated as well.

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BlazeAlt@reddit (OP)

There is a plugin: https://discourse.org/plugins/activitypub.html

Seems like it's not completely matured yet: https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-plugin/266794/42

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TheConquistaa@reddit

Yes, I know. I wondered if their forum had it yet, but as it is not mature enough, I don't think so. Thanks!

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sneakpeekbot@reddit

Here's a sneak peek of /r/PrivacyGuides using the top posts of the year!

#1: Don't Let Reddit Kill 3rd Party Apps! | 39 comments
#2: Reddit on the verge of eliminating third-party apps | 87 comments
#3: Reddit, APIs, Apps, and r/PrivacyGuides (Blackout Request for Comments)

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LibertyLizard@reddit

I just got banned from the entire instance for the most milquetoast and even-handed critique of China you’ve ever heard so I’m not sure I agree it’s fine for now. The admins are thin-skinned wanna-be dictators.

I don’t mind interacting with the users I just think we need to migrate every major community off of there as soon as practical.

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BlazeAlt@reddit (OP)

The lemmy.ml admin issues have been documented many times. Last post, 3 months ago, 1k upvotes, 793 comments: https://lemmy.world/post/16211417

Still, as I said

!privacy@lemmy.ml is still the most active community on that topic by far (8.4k monthy active user compared to around 900 for !privacy@lemmy.world and !privacyguides@lemmy.one )
!unixporn@lemmy.ml has 865 mau, !unixporn@lemmy.world 244
!opensource@lemmy.ml 5.3k mau, !opensource@programming.dev 912
many other open source communities like fdroid, jellyfin, degoogle, etc. have no real alternative.

If you want to help on migrating communities from lemmy.ml, feel free to join us on !fedigrow@lemm.ee, here is the thread for privacy for instance: https://lemm.ee/post/34088759

Personally, I think like most of the people interested in tech topics do not comment in news or political topics on lemmy.ml, hence never get banned, and are fined with keeping the tech communities there.

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LibertyLizard@reddit

Fair. Gotta be the change you want to see in the world I guess.

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BlazeAlt@reddit (OP)

Feel free to comment on fedigrow, every input is welcome!

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Vizjun@reddit

So does that mean that content is spread across 2000 communities for the same topics, like 2000 versions of r/games?

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BlazeAlt@reddit (OP)

No, in general there is one main community for a topic, the same way Reddit has /r/Games, /r/gaming, /r/videogames, /r/VideoGame, etc.

A list of communities with stats is available here: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

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kratoz29@reddit

Ah, I love seeing Lemmy posts in Reddit ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

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Flawed_L0gic@reddit

What are the X and Y directions plotting?

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Efficient_Star_1336@reddit

I assume it's a push-pull map in which dots are iteratively moved closer together if they share posters/subscribers and pulled further apart if they don't.

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BlazeAlt@reddit (OP)

From the author: "This is my first try at creating a map of lemmy. I based it on the overlap of commentors that visited certain communities.

I only used communities that were on the top 35 active instances for the past month and limited the comments to go back to a maximum of August 1 2024 (sometimes shorter if I got an invalid response.)

I scaled it so it was based on percentage of comments made by a commentor in that community.

Here is the code for the crawler and data that was used to make the map:

https://codeberg.org/danterious/Lemmy_map"

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27579423