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.
Join in and contribute to sharing and disussion of left video content at BreadTube. The more the merrier!
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Agreed
I just got here & I hope that this place can grow & flourish with the influx of new users.
I rarely post on Reddit but try to do so here. Find content for random subs if you want to help! And always comment.
I think I’ve posted more on Lemmy in the past 24 hours than I did in the past year on Reddit. It feels way less like shouting into the void.
Who wants to see my taint ?
Excuse you, what? I think this belongs in a different community.
We are all one big community.
I gotchu bro, let’s see that raunch pad, the ol’ Gucci Goochie
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.
Not a mega thread, but a dedicated community [email protected]
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.
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.
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 looking for baking, woodworking, and diablo4. Point em out of you know em
https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] for woodworking.
Agreed. If you need a laugh come join https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes
Oh that is awesome. Thanks!
The apps I’ve found search across multiple instances, so I’ve been able to find everything I was on Reddit for pretty easy. My feed from the 14th until RIF shut down was already a ghost town because only 2 subs I subscribed to didn’t go dark at all, and it seems like they just got a headstart migrating here because all my favorite subs are here and some of the biggest I’ve found already.
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?
Right now, if you want to have an account in another instance, you need to go make a new account in that instance, which is totally fine, so go ahead. Mastodon allows direct account migration, but as far as I know, Lemmy doesn’t have that function yet. (And welcome to the Fediverse! :3 )
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.
You can still follow Beehaw comms, just not interact with them. It would be good is users were warned about this somehow.
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?
There are many, here is a nice tool for you to check out what is there: https://lemmyverse.net/
I’m still getting used this fedi system of things. I couldn’t make an account on Lemmy, but I can on Kbin. I wasn’t expecting to see Lemmy posts here so it was a nice surprise
Wait until you notice the Mastodon users in the comments.
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.
Agreed. I have never really posted, but I feel obligated to do my part to help the communities grow
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I think more people will move over soon! It will take a while to build up the communities on here but I think there is a good foundation so far.
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:
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Books and eReaders
Technology
Miscellaneous interests
Some resources for finding communities
Communities/Magazines
Websites
- Sub.rehab, a site cataloging where different subreddits have moved to
- Lemmyverse.net, a lemmy community browser
Special Interest Instances
- mander.xyz - nature and science
- slrpnk.net - solarpunk/ecology/ sustainable living
- programming.dev - programming/software engineering
- lemmy.dbzero.com - piracy and AI
- lemmy.film - filmmaking and media discussion
- ttrpg.network - Tabletop RPG games
- poptalk.scrubbles.tech - pop music
- startrek.website - Star Trek
- lemmy.nsfw - take a guess
Commenting here just because. Fuck /u/spez! All hail Lemmy!
