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p.s. although it’s now out of date, as some instances are no longer around (RIP Lemmy.film), this post is still a pretty useful resource for a broader range of communities than those listed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.