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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.
Sure, but it hits different when there is a company of ill-repute specifically profiting off of your data acting as the broker.
Just go to communities and select all… go shopping!
You could look for foreign communities who speak different languages and practice speaking to them through Lemmy if you wanted to.
For the longest time, I’ve pursued languages and was just posting on foreign-language communities because I like to learn them and I seek contact with foreigners just to practice my languages.
Mostly I posted in Spanish and German having learned some of those languages growing up and more recently when I took up learning on Busuu.
Where I live, Spanish is a more common foreign language because of our Hispanic population and my family too. I also used a DNA kit that showed me what heritage I had (Mostly English and German but I inherited some Mexican from my mother’s great grandmother from when I was little. So that’s also why I pursue languages.
I also pursue them as sort of a hobby of mine.
This is just an idea I had in mind from my recent activity here on Lemmy. I’m actually on lemmus.org and moved from lemm.ee but I seek contact with some foreigners for my languages.
Maybe join lemm.ee or lemmus.org if not that?
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 !anarchychess@sopuli.xyz and !chess@lemmy.ml
Just browse all and take the time to block every community you don't like the content of
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.
!imageai@sh.itjust.works
its just silly pictures but is fun.
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.
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.
I am making the insane people Facebook one really fun these days.
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
!memes@lemmy.ml !asklemmy@lemmy.world !privacy@lemmy.ml !retrogaming@lemmy.world !starwarsmemes@lemmy.world (prequelmemes is small here mostly not active) !bikinibottomtwitter@lemmy.world !lotrmemes@midwest.social !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
I will say star trek is more popular here and its pretty good !risa@startrek.website
Try the Lemmyverse community search and use whatever keywords you are interested in. Subscribe to a bunch of communities and see if that brings interesting stuff to your front page. If you notice you’re seeing uninteresting stuff from certain communities, unsubscribe to those and keep on refining.
Also, if you’re interested in unexpected factorials, here’s the community for you.
!unexpectedfactorial@sopuli.xyz
It’s still pretty small and quiet, but anyone is welcome to post their factorial observations there.
https://lemmy.zip/c/interestingshare
Interesting share, just posts of stuff people thought was interesting.
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: !interestingshare@lemmy.zip
It's pretty easy to curate to what you like, ban communities you definitely don't like and subscribe to communities you really like while switching between all and subscribed based whether or not you want to discover new communities. You may also want to play around with what instance you use based on who they're federated with or if you want multiple accounts but that's not usually necessary.
If you're a pirate I'd recommend a lot of communities from lemmy.dbzer0.com if you're into Linux there is a fuck ton of Linux communities I'm sure you'll come across. Lemmy is full of techy and political topics mostly but there's some great memes too. I recommend the memes@lemmy.ml personally bc it matches my personal politics more closely. If you used r/196 you may feel more at him in lemmy.blahaj.zone
Mostly you'll find that Lemmy lacks the hyper niche and fandom communities you'd find on Reddit but everything else is generally here. You can always make a niche community your self but you'll likely end up being the one posting 90% of the time unless you find some people really interested beforehand. Good luck 👍