I know this is the hot topic right now but let’s not let Lemmy’s default feed JUST be about the Reddit changes. Seek out your hobbies and comment/vote/post <3
In my opinion that will do more for refugees.
I’ve already joined several communities relevant to my interests and have been posting and commenting in some (I’m still more of a lurker than an active user, I might only make a post and/or a few comments a day, or even a week, but I’m here). In case you might be interested:
Gaming, emulation, handhelds, and retro gaming:
- !games@lemmy.world
- !gaming@lemmy.ml
- !sbcgaming@lemmy.ml
- !retrogaming@lemmy.world
- !linux_gaming@lemmy.world
- !patientgamers@lemmy.world
- !patientgamers@lemmy.ml
- !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
- !3ds@lemmy.world
- !emulation@lemmy.ml
- !emulation@lemmy.world
- !emulationonandroid@lemmy.ml
- !handhelds@lemmy.world
- !pcgaming@lemmy.ml
- !pcgaming@lemmy.world
- !simracing@lemmy.ml
Books and eReaders
Technology
- !devops@lemmy.ml
- !technology@lemmy.world
- !technology@lemmy.ml
- !sysadmin@lemmy.world
- !sysadmin@lemmy.ml
Miscellaneous interests
Join in and contribute to sharing and disussion of left video content at BreadTube. The more the merrier!
Edit: formatting
I’ve found a few communities like those I followed on Reddit, but it’s quite depressing how quiet they are. Hope more people make it over.
Double check your profile languages are set properly. Almost every community off .world looked dead to me at first, but then I realized it was filtering every post flagged with a language I didn’t have and .world doesn’t give you English by default.
The communities are still tiny, but it was a major help.
One thing I’m finding Lemmy doesn’t replicate much of from my reddit subs is cute/funny animal photos/videos, any community recommendations?
Click on the “Communities” link at the top of the page, and search for the word “cat” or “dog”. You’ll see all sorts of communities to follow. Some are newer and still getting their bearings and some are quite active already.
Yeah I tried that with dog, aww, rarepuppers etc. But they’re all very small so I was wondering if there were any with less obvious names that I might be missing
And other instances
Lemmy.world is getting hugged to death
So im on mobile and I still haven’t figured out instances. How do I change instances? Is changing instances even a thing or is it too late because I already signed up on lemmy world?
Not too late at all. To change instances however, ypu need to register on that instance and do a new account. There isn’t a way to switch instances on one account. Many are hoping there will be at one point a functionality to export stuff from one account to another but I have no idea how realistic that is.
Ah ok cool, i have another question, how many instances are there, too many to count or just a handful? Which instance is best to use ATM to save lemmy.world from being overloaded?
Closer to “too many to count” than to a handful, but a lot are basically one person running an instance for themselves. Off the top of my head, I’d guess there are at least a dozen that are pretty big and active. Not all of them have “Lemmy” in the name, so you have to find them on one of the instance lists floating around, or just by clicking through to the local instance associated with communities you’re following.
You don’t need to change anything, you can subscribe to communities in other instances and they’ll all be in your subscribed feed.
Ed: with exceptions
The exceptions might be enough to make someone want to at least have an alt account, IMO. (For anyone new, currently, one of the big exceptions is that Beehaw is currently not connected with Lemmy.world, though the leaders of the instances have been talking about it, and they plan to reconnect when some technical wrinkles have been ironed out. So that is definitely temporary. You can participate with both if you are on most other instances, it’s just direct connection that currently isn’t happening).
Other reasons include being able to quickly switch if your instance has technical difficulties, and being part of the instance that has your favorite communities. But yeah, +1 on not having to be part of every instance that hosts a community you like. That’s the beauty of federation!
A furry instance I found is linked to Lemmy.World, but it also requires manual account activation and I saw no way of getting my Lemmy.World account in the system.
In case you haven’t found out already: you need to search for it from your local instance (the search bar is located on your feed, or by your settings). Then, when that community comes up in search results (if it doesn’t, try pasting in the URL rather than search terms), click through, and join from the sidebar. Or you could apply directly, I wouldn’t worry too much about getting approved. I think that’s often just a test to make sure bots are applying, rather than “are you good enough to join.”
I’m tryin’. Is there a megathread somewhere where communities and instances introduce themselves and give an elevator pitch?
I’ve tried sifting through a massive list of instances but they’re not often named something that gives away their philosophy and it is a bit tedious to click each and every one. Not to mention then having to locate communities.
But I’m chill and I’ll just float around and explore. It’s not the worst thing and it feels like early 2000s internet a little bit.
A lot of instances are just general-purpose, I think, so any philosophy is kind of come from who’s there, which you wouldn’t know until you got there. But I find the list of communities on an instance is helpful. If there are more than a page or two, it’s probably general-purpose, but a smaller number will probably show the interests of the people already there.
I don’t think there is, truth is, we are like about 5 seconds in the bing bang, it’s going to take a bit of time for things to settle and start having identities, some instances are leaning left, some are right, some are somewhere in between.
Just pick any instance. They largely all federate each other and you can subscribe to communities from any instance. You won’t miss out on anything.
Not a mega thread, but a dedicated community !newcommunities@lemmy.world
It certainly needs an experimental phase, I was just doing research and checking out instances and whatnot first few days. You might find this tool useful for browsing instances and communities: https://lemmyverse.net/
I’m just dipping my toes in. I know I’m gonna go swimming, but I feel lost. How does one create or search for a community here? I want to see forums for what I like, but is there a link explaining how to make it happen? I can’t be the only casual that is new here.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!!! I know for many new Lemmy users (myself included - DAY 1 BAYBEE) it’s so fun to shit on “that site” while not posting on “that site”, of course it is and well deserved. But, we have the Undiscovered Country up in here. This is robust and full of so many sub-red EH… Communities that are just like what we had over there, but we can make this whole thing even better. I’m so hype about this!
