This is not a comprehensive list by any means, and is why I’m featuring this post and leaving it open to comments. I may update this as people make suggestions, and I encourage others to make their own variations on this list in the comments or in their respective versions of this community.
Also to clarify some terms here, by active I’m aiming for at least some commenting on recent-ish posts, not merely recent posts, and by the topic names…I’ll let the linked communities serve as examples.
🎨 Creative Communities 🎨
Fabricraft
Music
Photography
Visual
- !artshare@lemmy.world
- !digitalart@lemmy.world
- !imageai@sh.itjust.works
- !pixelart@lemmy.ml
- !traditional_art@lemmy.world
Writing
- !twosentencehorror@sh.itjust.works
- !poetry@lemmy.world
- !writingprompts@lemmy.world
- !shortstories@literature.cafe
- !keepwriting@lemmy.world
Food
🗿 Humanities 🗿
Visual Art
- !albumartporn@lemmy.world
- !artporn@lemm.ee
- !gameart@sopuli.xyz
- !sapphicart@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !traditional_art@lemmy.world
Literary Art
History & Anthropology
- !archaeology@mander.xyz
- !artifact@lemmy.world
- !anthropology@mander.xyz
- !history@lemmy.world
- !HistoryArtifacts@kbin.social
Language/Linguistics
Philosophy
Religion & Spirituality
😄 Entertainment 😄
Playing
Watching
- !anime@ani.social
- !movies@lemmy.world
- !showsandmovies@lemm.ee
- !moviesandtv@lemm.ee
- !television@lemmy.world
- !trailers@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !videos@lemmy.world
Reading and Listening
- !books@lemmy.ml
- !books@lemmy.world
- !comicbooks@lemmy.world
- !comics@lemmy.ml
- !comicstrips@lemmy.world
- !fiction@literature.cafe
- !manga@ani.social
- !manga@lemmy.ml
- !shortstories@literature.cafe
Multimedia
Music
🏅 Sports 🏅
Hope this helps any newcomers find some different communities to join and participate in!
p.s. although it’s now out of date, as some instances are no longer around (RIP Lemmy.film), this post is still a pretty useful resource for a broader range of communities than those listed here.
Stupid spam accounts… I removed it.
I am very good at being online so I am definitely not just getting around to mentioning that I cross-posted this to our peer community !casualconversation@lemm.ee where some others have responded with some of the active communities they’ve found: https://lemmy.world/post/14734186
If you’ve any you’d like to add, comments are open here as well!
Added a few new communities.
!poetry@lemmy.world has been added under creative communities>writing and humanities>literary arts
!patientgamers@sh.itjust.works has been added under entertainment>playing (not sure why I didn’t have this one to begin with tbh, sorry about that!)
!shortstories@literature.cafe has been added under creative communities>writing and entertainment>reading and listening
Removed by mod
Reported