- Lemmyverse - Filter and find Instances and Communities
- Lemmy Community-Browser - Alternative site to search for communities
- sub.rehab - Find where your favorite subreddit has made a community onn Lemmy
- FediDB - View Stats about Fediverse and Lemmy Instances.
- The Federation - Stats and Graphs on Fediverse Growth and Popular Instances on them
- Awesome Lemmy Instances - Index of Popular Lemmy Instances
- Fediverse Observer - Another site to find popular instances
- Lemmymap - Size of Different Lemmy Instances Visualized
- fedi-block - Find which instances have blocked your home instance
- Fedisearch - Search Fediverse through various search engines
I also made a post collecting beginner guides for new lemmy users. Feel free to comment any new site and I’ll update the list.
There is one more step once you found an community you’d like to subscribe to. Take the link to the community (something like https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/freemediaheckyeah ) and copy it into your home instance’s (the one you’ve made an account on) search page. for me it looks like this:
Sometimes, it will say “No Results.” Just wait a view seconds, and maybe try to refresh. The server it mostly likely retrieving some posts and comments for the first time. Eventually, it will show up, click the result, and you’ll be directed to something like https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/freemediaheckyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml (with your home instance’s domain in place of mine) and you can subscribe from there.