Communities and tools for community and instance discovery - tchncs

## Community discovery communities [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] - New Communities - A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion. [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] - Community Promo - Promote your favourite communities and ask about communities that you are looking for! [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] - Trending Communities - Daily post by a bot highlighting trending communities. [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] - Lemmy Directory - This community has bots making regular posts showcasing best content from communities in given categories to help promote them. [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] - Find a Community - A community to find other communities in any of the Lemmy instances. ## Community and instance discovery tools Lemmy Explorer [https://lemmyverse.net/communities] -A tool to search and filter for communities or instances. You can change the software in the top left to switch to PieFed Explorer [https://lemmyverse.net/piefed/communities] or Mbin Explorer [https://lemmyverse.net/mbin/magazines] (I believe there are plans to have a combined search in the future) Fediverse Observer [https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/] - Find a Lemmy instance near you, or view instance lists, maps, or stats. Can also be used with other Fediverse software including PieFed [https://piefed.fediverse.observer/] and Mbin [https://mbin.fediverse.observer/]. Some Fediverse software, including Mbin, Friendica, and Mastodon, uses # tags to help with discovery on the microblogging side. Mastodon also treats community names as tags in a given post, e.g. posts in both [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] and [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] having the # fediverse tag when propagating to there. ## Communities for other questions [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] - Questions about Lemmy software/development [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] - Questions about Piefed software/development [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] - Questions about any topic that you need help with [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] - Open-ended questions to prompt discussion For support with a specific instance (e.g. login/account issues, requests to mod), check in your instance’s local communities to see if there is a help/support community, such as [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] for lemmy.world ---- The above was compiled to try to share active communities and resources to help with discovery. Some inactive communities were excluded, but could be added if they become active again. Please leave a comment if you want to add anything, or have any suggestions!