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Welcome to Lemmy! π€This website has helped me find the most popular communities and niche communities from all over the fediverse https://lemmyverse.net/communities
I hope you have fun here!
linuxmemes and the worldnews communities on both .world and .ml
It's good to have both because they bias against each other.
c/wizards
c/golincore
c/comicstrips
c/thefarside
You need to link like this: [email protected], otherwise it doesn't work for users on other instances.
A nice thing you can do is to call an IA to draw you something from any community federated. Just like that:
[email protected] draw me a welcome picture for someone new on a social media. Style: piratepunk
The first thing I recommend you do is get a feel for the vibe of other instances, with a more dedicated topic, and join those, rather than Lemmy.world or something.
Lemmy is at its best when your local feed has more topics along your personal interests, but you can search All for stuff outside your interests.
Funny communities and news ones are usually found in generalist instances such as lemmy.world or lemmy.ml but the most interesting ones are on specialised instances.
The best way to discover them is to go directly to the instance and scroll a bit on the local thread or to go to the community page (ex: lemmy.ml/communities).
Then come back to your instance to visit again or follow the communities you liked.
There is geographically or language specialised instances such as :
- feddit.uk
- feddit.it and most probably
- feddit.[your country code]
but a few geographically/language specialised instances were creative with there name such as
- aussie.zone
- jlai.lu
- midwest.social
There is also subject oriented instances for example
- mander.xyz. Science oriented
- slrpnk.net. Solarpunk oriented
- lemmy.dbzer0.com. Allow content about piracy
and [email protected] is probably the most follow community on the lemmyverse.
You can find community directly from your instance page or from a browser like :
- browse.feddit.de
- lemmyverse.net
The browser helps you find community's names that were never connected to your own instance or specialised instance you didn't knew about.
When connecting for the first time type the url lemmy.world/c/[community's name]@[community's instance], you'll get an error but after refreshing the page you will have access to the community. But that's not new-comers friendly as you'll need another maneuvers to access post published before you connect your instance to the remote community. Still, if you are interested, I can explain you how to do it.
There is also politically oriented instances but some may be blocked by the administrators of your instance. You can check that on lemmy.world/instances.
Finally, if you want to test your options on Lemmy without spamming your favorite communities, you can do that here [email protected].
Do you like animal pictures?
[email protected]
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And I know I've forgot some community.
In that case, there's some cat communities.
Btw, Welcome!
I think you responded to the wrong comment but I've saw others people recommandations for cats and beaver and I don't remember what else and I've note them down.
I think there is also some !pet somewhere but I can't find it again.
I fucking love animal pictures. Following all these now.
Glad to help (^_^)
Most niche communities from R*ddit are pretty much dead here unless you are looking forward to being a regular poster yourself. This rather requires sticking to the lemmy.world open feed rather than creating a custom feed with your communities only, if you are looking to scroll a lot instead, of course. Just stick around a bit, see how often what communities and people reach the general feed, elect to block the ones that feel flooding your feed or not to your taste. Maybe give some regularly-posted communities that are previously not in your area of interest some chance before going on a mass block. This place does have a quality and rather genuine people, but in a limited scope.
Honestly, my "all" view is fine. There were a few bots I blocked months ago that just auto reposted everything from Reddit which led to a lot of spam but other than that it's been fine! Then again I did this back on Reddit too.
I had been using Reddit with my custom feed right from the very beginning. It was pretty good, I got more community recommendations from friends and people in the communities I had subscribed to, and I even started dropping some communities I no longer had much interest in, so my feed was pretty dynamic with popular and niche stuff alike.
I still miss my custom feed and having content in some niche communities, but it has been more than 6 months since my preferred 3rd party app has been deployed for Lemmy and I have been completely scrolling and commenting on Lemmy only, still. Never scrolled on Reddit since July 1, never succumbed to desktop-only alternatives like old.reddit, although it is still my default with RES settings applied if I'm to click on Reddit links for info, since the platform was going to be at its shittiest moments from then on, not just the interface.
Primary news communities are good enough to not avoid them like the plague they were in Reddit, riddled with propaganda bots. Big, general meme communities are the same, without many daily reposts in the same community. Movies/series fan communities are very much lacking, except a couple big fan communities. Tbh I prefer Star Trek communities here over any series/movies fan communities anywhere else, although I haven't watched even one episode of Star Trek so far in my life. Game communities are almost completely dead, but I have started getting my game updates from Steam "Home" screen blog feeds on the library. Big, all gaming and new gaming announcement related communities here are the same as they were in Reddit if I want digital entertainment poisoning anyway.
Overall, fewer content flood of Lemmy with also almost non-existent bot or discussion-disabled loud mouth count feels like a way healthier engagement procedure on this kind of a platform. Writing paragraphs-long comments never felt like a drop in the sea they were on Reddit, even if these comments get only a handful upvotes/downvotes here and maybe a couple replies at best.
196 and only 196.
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Welcome! There's a lot of actually good content on here if you avoid Hexbear and lemmy.ml.
I go back and anonymously browse Reddit sometimes and it feels plastic.
If you want to avoid specific instances, it's best to go to an instance that defederates from those instances. That's the power of the Fediverse - you get to choose an instance that aligns with your values and moderation style :)
Avoiding them myself is great, but long term I'd love do see the Fediverse succeed. We need to shut down propaganda if we want it to be viable. There's no corporation or organization running the show, it's us.
The way to shut down propaganda is defederation and diligent moderation. That takes some actions from admins and moderators, who as you note are mostly volunteers. So do your best to support your local mods and admins in doing that or volunteer yourself :)
Agreed, well said. I hope the fediverse can really become a good thing
Feels plastic cause it's full of bots. I seriously hope the niche communities don't get chocked to death with bots. But I also see that many went to discord... which I'm not sure if it's an improvement TBH.
Yeah, I saw someone on Lemmy showing screenshots two posts that were copied exactly from like 8 months ago except for a single new legitimate comment. It's wild what LLMs are doing to online interaction and honestly.... this is just the beginning.
Conversely, if you want less cheap comments like this one you should not.