It's small enough that just browsing all will actually show you all.
this post was submitted on 19 May 2024
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Also big enough for that to be a somewhat unhealthy amount of content to keep up with.
Keep up with? Just browse some posts on /all while popping, then go live a life.
Pimple popping, my favorite thing to do while browsing lemmy
Well yeah, but to say browsing all will actually let you see everything is a bit of an exaggeration if that's what you do.
Like I said. It's possible, but probably not something anyone should actually be doing.
My intended point is that browsing all is a viable way to find communities. You won't miss many communities if you browse everything. Then subscribe to what you like, block what you really dislike.
You're right that all can be overwhelming and distasteful, but at least it really is everything, as opposed to the r/all, which was heavily filtered.
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/all, top of last 12 hours has been my go-to
I usually sort All by top 12 or 6, depending on how recently I last checked. That's how I keep up with the general chatter. And I refresh my subscriptions by new once in a while to take part in the topics I enjoy as they emerge.
It might end up showing all the communities but it won't show you every post. Like F1 posts rarely end up in all despite having an active community. You're more likely to see posts from formuladank than formula 1.
Browse /all, sort by new, you'll see every post your Lemmy instance is aware of.
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Lemmy is a lot smaller than reddit so its more acceptable to post niche content in more generic communities. That being said I really like
Welcome to Lemmy!
The fun hole link seems to be dead
Yea it totally broke my Eternity client and I had to kill it and restart.
Happy to be here! I’ve had this account since the Great Migration of 2023, but I was slow to actually leave Reddit because the dumpster fire was too enticing. Thanks for the recommendations.
Fun fact: Even if Spez banned you from Reddit, you can still edit your old comments. I just recently discovered that.
Anyways, welcome to Lemmy!
Oh, hey, I started one of those!
So happy you like it!
For any fellow weebs, there's an instance, ani.social. It is host to a bunch of relevant communities.
Welcome!
- !casualconversation@lemm.ee
- !cat@lemmy.world
- !showerthoughts@lemmy.world
- !pics@lemmy.world
- !science@lemmy.world
- !todayilearned@lemmy.world
- !nostalgia@lemmy.ca
- !space@lemmy.world
- !bats@lemmy.world
- !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
- !movies@lemm.ee for movie discussions rather than news
- !yurop@lemm.ee
And then a few specific
Some similar communities from my list:
!beavers@lemmy.world
!birding@lemmy.world
!lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world
!squirrels@lemmy.ca
!superbowl@lemmy.world
I really enjoy all the niche animal communities. /c/bats makes me smile every day.
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For discovering new communities !trendingcommunities
And finally !newtolemmy
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Just browse all tbh
Sadly, Lemmy is too small to have many active niche communities of its own, so as already said your best bet is just viewing all.
Alongside this, viewing specific instances can give you a slightly more curated experience than just all of Lemmy.
TBH I just stick to the feed and block the communities I don't want to see. Especially avoid anything on Hexbear or lemmy ml, those instances are CCP propoganda trying to convince the west to off each other and themselves.
Same here. Everything, sorted by scaled, and I block communities that annoy me. Or entire instances, but so far that's just been hexbear
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Not to be too biased or anything, but I mod
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I also really like
The userbases on all of these communities are a little smaller, but steady and the vibe is more positively authentic than Reddit alternatives.
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.
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When I moved over I searched for versions of all my reddit communities. Sadly, a lot of them are inactive, but I subbed anyway just in case. Then I went onto all and looked for the top handful that had stuff I liked. Now I mostly stick to my subscribed and flip over to all if I run out.
Rather than particular communities, I tend to just do all - last 12 hours.
Welcome!
I don't have specific recommendations on hand because I'm on mobile, but you can look through this guide from !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca for other ways to discover communities
https://lemmy.ca/post/11285664
Following the promo communities works great so you can passively learn about new things when they get promoted
!newcommunities@lemmy.world is all you need to know
Do you like animal pictures?
!animalswithjobs@lemmy.world
!aww@lemmy.world
!awwnverts@lemmy.world
!superbowl@lemmy.world
!crows@lemmy.ml
!bats@lemmy.world
And I know I've forgot some community.
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Shameless plug for !cfb@fanaticus.social it's the offseason so it's not crazy active. But if you're looking for college football...
Welcome back! Depends on what you like, there's a good chunk of communities now. Just make sure to keep expectations in check, we're not Reddit, a good community here has a couple of posts a day and dozens, not thousands of comments. Your post here I'd say is doing pretty well.
We're still growing, slowly, but you're proof that people are growing tired of corporate social media.
Yeah, I couldn’t sleep last night, so I was looking around here for a while. I think browsing all might be good enough for now. I’m also really digging the smaller size; it seems to allow all posts made in good faith to get decent engagement. On Reddit, the early downvote I got on this post would have been a death sentence for responses, but now I’ve got lots to go off of here
Yeah we don't have the post counts to ignore one just because it got down voted once ! There are many posts that come back from the dead.
And I say this to everyone, you're already doing it'd be the change you want to see. If there's a niche community with no posts, start posting. People will gather to it.
linuxmemes and the worldnews communities on both .world and .ml
It's good to have both because they bias against each other.
My favorites are 196 and lemmyshitpost. Nostupidquestions can also be interesting sometimes. I'd recommend searching for the names of your favorite subreddits and checking if they have moved over here.
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.
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.
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Conversely, if you want less cheap comments like this one you should not.
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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 !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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 !testfediverse@jlai.lu.
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