Also, if you put "old." in front of your URL you get the old view of the site, which I liked a lot more personally, so it's probably worth a try for you too.
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Welcome! It's difficult for me to suggest specific communities because my favorites to read are highly individual. I suggest sorting /all by Active, Scaled, and New to assist in discovery.
Finally, please participate and share content! Lemmy needs it to thrive.
Just switch between all and subscribed, and subscribe to communities you like. It won’t be long before you have a decently curated subscribed list.
Don’t be afraid to block communities so they don’t show up in All.
You should expect things to work more like the early Reddit days when there weren’t a lot of subreddits.
I want to stress that you are expected to block communities you're not interested in.
There's no content curation between instances (an instance is like a niche mini-reddit, but seamlessly connected to this one), so you will end up with US Politics next to Furry porn, next to Star Trek memes, next to NZ local news, next to sports statistics, next to AI Porn, unless you start blocking.
Upside is you can get great science content, AND local news, AND your favorite porn, AND your brand of shitpost/memes in your feed/subscriptions without any hassle.
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To add to this, block users too. The community is so small here that you start to recognise names of annoying people and trolls. I'm all for a robust discussion, but if I know someone is always going to argue in bad faith or they're literally here just to stir shit, it's just easier to block them. Didn't really work with Reddit, but here it's got a decent impact.
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This is pretty good advice. Also, by “early Reddit days“ they mean 18 years ago, “early Reddit days,” not, “when you were new to Reddit.“
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I'd recommend filtering by all instances (servers) and see which ones show up, which is kind of like r/all. Just a word of warning that everyone and their dog seems to have a NSFW community with three niche images that make you wonder how that's even a thing.
lemmyverse.net is also a great tool to find communities and instances
This. Just type your keyword into the search box at https://lemmyverse.net/communities. Copy the address of the community e.g. [email protected] and paste that into the search at https://lemmy.world/search.
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- Sort by new
- Subscribe to stuff
I prefer to sort by either hot or active, then I sort by New once I’ve run through everything. But you do you.
Agree, I start my day on active, but once I've seen all those I do top six hours, then new.
I start with hot, then go backwards through those. I like to start general and then go granular.
- Block stuff you don't want to see. I block porn, sports & country specific ones that I do not speak the language.
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Did you remember to delete all you posts and comments before deleting your account? Because fuck Reddit!
Why? Unless you’re in a few location in the world, they won’t actually delete your valuable data.
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Fediverse postings are probably also being used for AI training. Just so you won't be too shocked when it eventually comes out in the future.
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I bailed around 8 months ago, I felt the same way and that was only 3 years into it. I block a lot of news type communities in all You'll notice some communities are similar/same as it is the local vs all of lemmy instances
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (prequelmemes is small here mostly not active) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
I will say star trek is more popular here and its pretty good [email protected]
As someone who mostly left behind a 13 y/o reddit account with a ton karma when the api nonsense happened, the fuck is reddit premium?
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Welcome!
See this post on [email protected] for a guide how to find communities / resources that help
https://lemmy.ca/post/11285664
I recommend subscribing to more things that you might have on Reddit, and hunting around on the pages linked above for stuff related to your interests
Welcome fellow ex-pat
What subs did you like and maybe we can help find substitutions.
One thing to note is that anything you do on the fediverse is visible in the activitypub so be mindful of that if there’s aspects of your online identity you want to keep private.
Not that it’s less secure than putting everything on Reddit but what you “like”/“upvote” and dislike/downvote show in the activity log even if your client/site doesn’t necessarily show it.
For me it’s no big deal but thought I’d just add the caveat.
So what kind of stuff do you like/looking for?
If you like star trek you’re in luck as there’s
I like 3d printing so there’s
Aside from the general recommendations, I've had the most fun finding stuff I'm into and posting/commenting to build a little momentum in the communities.
Most recently I've been into chess, so I've been fairly active in [email protected] and [email protected]
It depends on how much content you're looking for. You can't get the "infinite scroll" like you could on reddit, the user base just isn't there. The closest you can get is browsing all, but it's still limited. Search for communities based on your interests and then follow the communities that seem most active, as there will likely be duplicates. I left reddit last year when they killed the apps. I will say two things about my transition to lemmy: One, the content I do get is more tailored and specific. Two, I spend less time attached to my phone because new content isn't pouring in by the second. I view these as positives.
Can we get a bit more info on your likes and interests? What subreddits did you subscribe to? I'm happy to recommend some but since I enjoy things like [email protected] that have dependencies such as being a metal fan, knowing a bit more about what you're looking for will help.
But regardless, welcome aboard and I hope you like Star Trek and Linux references!
Welcome to Lemmy!
I found that a large number of communities have been named after popular, and less popular, subreddits. So I found them easy to find. There was an old r/Redditalternatives post that has a decent range of communities to start out, which I've copied below. It is similar to the default subreddits.:
*Note:*The "World" hyperlink takes you to the Lemmy.World communitiy.
General
- Asklemmy (ee, world)
- Showerthoughts (ee, world)
- General discussions (ee, world)
- Mildly Infuriating (ee, world)
- You Should Know (ee, world)
- No Stupid Questions (ee, world)
- Mildly Interesting (ee, world)
- Memes (ee, world)
- Lemmy Shitpost (ee, world)
- Videos (ee, world)
News/Politics
Pets and such
Gaming
TV and Music
Pics and Art
Technology and Science
- Technology (ee, world)
- Science (ee, world)
- Fediverse (ee, world)
- Android (ee, world)
- Hardware (ee, world)
- Privacy Guides (ee, world)
Sports
Others
I would actually recommend [email protected] instead. The admins of lemmy.ml are weirdly hostile towards anime, but ani.social is an anime-specific instance.
Thanks for this! I've been here since the 3rd party app shutdown and this is great!
Oh, by the way: If you're a fan of the classic "Old.reddit.com" look, the Programming.Dev instance has an identical interface: https://old.programming.dev/?sort=Hot&listingType=All .
It's federated with Lemmy.World so all the same posts will appear. I'm partial to that on Desktop browser, and stick with https://p.lemmy.world for mobile.
It works on lemmy.world as well!
The only thing that is unfortunate about the old.lemmy.world site is that the block feature is broken. I try to curate my All feed by blocking spammers and communities I am not interested in, but nothing happens when you click the Block button on any post.
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Oh thats great thanks! Ill def be using that.
Yeah both lemmy.world and us have the same alternate frontends at the same subdomains (apart from voyager in which they went for m for mobile and we did v for voyager)
Links for all four of them
- Photon (p.) - world | programming.dev
- Alexandrite (a.) - world | programming.dev
- Voyager (m. and v.) world | programming.dev
- Mlmym (old.) world | programming.dev
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What a saint!
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
lmao
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