I’m sorry, is this the place to ask? Are they just called “communities”? Not sub…lemmys?
I wanted to curate something like old-Reddit for my front-page but I’m having trouble finding any sidebar lists of related communities. Do I just have to search and add each one individually if they’re here? Does it matter if it’s ‘local’ or ‘all’?
I’m using Connect for the moment. Thanks in advance!
EDIT - you guys are awesome!
Take a look at https://lemm.ee/post/224890 . The poster’s keeping a list of crafting-related
subredditscommunities.Try checking out sub.rehab which includes many official subreddits’ Lemmy communities. Remember, this is the fediverse, so evein if the community is on kbin (they call them magazines over there), Mastodon, Beehaw, etc - they can all be followed from your Lemmy account!
If you subscribe to a few communities, start watching the posters. Find a few posters you like, click through to their profile and see what other communities they follow for ideas.
Install Voyager app. Go to settings > Migrate Reddit and follow the instructions there. It’ll have you go to your Reddit account, copy a multireddit link which will then allow you to search if there’s communities here in the same name.
Vger.app > Settings > Install App [email protected]
I would recommend going to the ‘communities’ tab and sorting by ‘local’. Then go through the list and get to know the communities already hosted on this instance (server). I’m still pretty new myself but I have already seen more than a handful of threads about this drama or that drama coming off of other servers. If you think you are going to stick to this one, get to know the community here first and then go exploring communities on other servers.
You can search to Lemmy Explorer: https://lemmyverse.net/
I’m in the same boat as you. First thing I recommend is getting an app for it (I’m using connect, and loving it). Then just going through ‘all’ and subbing to what you like, and blocking what you don’t. It’ll take a while to curate it to your liking, but so did reddit.
I’ve got Jerboa on Android but it’s the same experience from the website. Find the community search and just type something in. You’ll see multiple instances of the same topic. I just subbed to every single one. I also chose an instance that didn’t block any other instance. Some instances attract certain kinds of people and then instances start blocking each other. So I chose one that didn’t block anything because I want that choice for myself.
That’s fair. I don’t fully understand the whole “instance” thing, but I’ve heard some block more than others.
A lot of people use the email analogy. So, there’s a different instances with different names. Each instance has communities like “[email protected]” and “[email protected]”. My account is on another instance from those two, but I can see communities from all other instances. Unless their instance blocked mine, at which point their users cannot interact with me, and I can’t see their posts.
So, if you’re looking for “news”, you can look up that work in the community search and sub to multiple ones. The down side is you’ll often see duplicate posts. I hope they figure out a way to combine posts. But idk how they could automate that process without it becoming a shitshow. The up side is that if lemmy.world goes down, you can still access the rest of the “federation”. Unless your account was on the instance that went down. That’s another thing I wish could be solved.
So basically, this is the equivalent of multiple smaller versions of reddit coming together to be a viable replacement?
Yeah, basically. It’ll be interesting to see how this develops.
Connect has been a great app and I feel like it doesn’t get the love it deserves.
Welcome to the Fediverse!
For apps, here’s a useful list:
For discovering instances:
