Madbrad200

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A mythical giant snake is helping raise climate awareness in Malawi (africanarguments.org)
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PSA: AMA with the creators of Lemmy is live (see link) (lemmy.ml)
 

not here, see https://lemmy.ml/post/2920188

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Being asked to switch to American English if I want to edit my playlist details (europe.pub)
 

On YouTube, never seen this before but apparently it's a thing

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Naming all 4 constituent countries of the UK (europe.pub)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Madbrad200@lemmy.world to c/confidently_incorrect@lemmy.world
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A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics) (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Madbrad200@lemmy.world to c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
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I posted this on the other site but I thought I'd copy over here too, lots of good communities around to subscribe to if you want a more casual/fun frontpage that isn't just tech news, elon musk, or politics.

note: all of these communities have posts. If they appear empty, it simply means nobody on the instance you use has visited them before (or you might have blocked them and forgot, I've done it before, lol)! I will try to keep this thread updated over time.

Note: if you wish to auto-subscribe to all of the communities below, I have a post in the comments that describes how to do so.

My rough criterion was:

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

Directory

  • Finding New Communities
  • Conversation Communities - for chatty places
    • "ask" based
    • Casual chat / Misc
  • Hobbies, Creative, Passions
    • Misc
    • Artwork
    • Cooking, food, drinks
    • Gardening / Plants
    • Keyboard enthusiasts
    • Knitting, stitching, crocheting, etc
    • Reading and writing
    • Transport
  • Nice/Interesting/Funny pictures
    • Animals
    • Comics
    • Flags
    • Maps
    • Memes
    • Misc
    • Photography
    • Wallpapers
  • Games
    • Board games / Table top games
    • Chess
    • Crosswords / Daily games
    • Video games
  • Knowledge (e.g history, science, etc)
  • Space
  • TV (television, movies, film), general entertainment
  • Music

Finding New Communities

Aside from this post, searching Lemmyverse is good for finding communities. Also visit:

Conversation communities

These are places that are 'chatty', good if you want a lot of comments.

"ask" based
Casual chat / Misc

Hobbies, Creative, Passions

Misc
Artwork

(see also the list under the Wallpapers header)

Cooking, food, drinks

Generally mostly nice pics of food:

Gardening / Plants
Keyboard enthusiasts
Knitting, Stitching, Crocheting, etc
Reading and Writing

(see also Comics category)

Sport

Honestly there are so many sport communities around - if you search Lemmyverse for popular sports, you will almost certainly find more.

Transport

Nice/Interesting/Funny pictures

Animals

Literally just pictures of cute animals.

Comics

(see also Reading & Writing category)

Flags
Maps
Memes

Meme communities in general can overload your feed, so keep that in mind.

Misc
Photography
Wallpapers

Games

Board Games / Table top games

The ttrpg.network instance has a lot of communities based around table top gaming & RPGs.

Chess
Crosswords / Daily games
Video Games

Knowledge (e.g history, science)

Space

TV (television), movies, film, general entertainment

Music

Lots of music communities on Lemmy. Search Lemmyverse for genres of interest for more, this definitely isn't exhaustive.

Note that music communities generally have low comment counts, from my experience.

There's also:

Previous

These communities have been removed from the list for not maintaining activity.

spoiler

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And here we have the "Deejay", a native to the decks area (europe.pub)
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PS2’s Two Towers was the coolest way to miss the whole point of the Lord of the Rings (www.polygon.com)
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Nyimi Kok Mabiintsh III, King of Kuba (D.R. Congo) (~1988) (europe.pub)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Madbrad200@lemmy.world to c/pics@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1508142

The Nyimi Mabiintsh III is fifty years old. He acquired the throne at the age of twenty. As a descendant of god the creator, the king is attributed with supernatural powers. Due to his top position he is restricted by several contraints: he does not have the right to sit on the ground, and he cannot cross a cultivated field. Apart from his cook, no one has seen him eat. Moreover he never travels without him, and his personal cooking ustensils.

It took Laine three weeks to photograph the Nyimi (king) of the Kuba in his royal apparel, the “bwantshy”. The outfit made out of material stitched with beads and “cauris” (small shells used as money in Africa), weighs 160 lb. It takes more than two hours to dress the King, and two days of spiritual preparation to be sufficiently purified in order to wear the outfit. The weight and the heat of the bwantshy is such, that it is impossible to wear it more than one hour. The preceeding King had only worn it three time during his entire life.

https://twistedsifter.com/2012/07/kings-of-africa-portraits-by-daniel-laine/

American media regularly censors the word ass but not the English word arse despite most Americans not knowing the difference is spelling not pronunciation. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] Madbrad200@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

arse is 100% pronounced differently to "ass"