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Hello Lemmings (I have no idea what Lemmy users are called) I'm a reddit migrator. I'm still a little confused, but I'd like to learn. How do I find communities? If I want to discuss Warhammer or Steam games, or something like that, what's the best way to find that content? If it matters I am on the phone app.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you don't have any specific content that you want, set your feed to All and sort by Hot or Top Day. Scroll it and if something sparks your interest go to the community where the post was made and subscribe.

If you are interested in specific topics, click search and type the keyword. In Jerboa search function only looks for communities, based on keyword, but in website you can set search to either posts, comments etc.

This way I found 1 Warhammer community.

https://lemmy.world/c/warhammer40k

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Awesome! This was fairly easy! Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Try all>new as well.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I like lemmings, lol. It's cute.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I mean the Lemmy mascot is literally a lemming. Guess that's similar to calling Redditors Snoos.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmings is absolutely delightful! Like, it is vaguely insulting sounding, but it's cheeky and I hope it becomes an accepted term.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Being named after a suicidal herd animal might backfire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Better than Lemmons or Lemmurs I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

i consider myself a lemming now

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I just found out about this one, and it seems like by far the best one to me. Sorting, and you can set your home instance to make it easier to subscribe. Which... honestly how is that the other options don't have that stuff?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you found a community, for example via https://browse.feddit.de/, but get a 404 error when visiting it:

Try searching for the community with a bang prefixed: [email protected]

This will "discover" the community for your instance. When coming from a big instance like lemmy.world this is probably rarely necessary. Only one lemming has to discover a remote community to unlock it for all other lemmings on the same instance.

But someone has to be the first, and that lemming must bang it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Good to know! I imagine that will save me a headache in the future. Also,

But someone has to be the first, and that lemming must bang it.

Quote of the year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

@Protoknuckles lol I like the term lemmings.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On kbin.soxial it's as easy as going to the magazine list and searching for things you might be interested in. It'll show you mags across all hosters. Not sure if lemmy.world has any similar search.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

To clarify, Magazines on kbin are simply Communities on Lemmy. And yes, I'm surprised you guys don't have a similar search function? It has some issues with case sensitivity but that's pretty much how I found the stuff I subscribed to.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • search on here https://browse.feddit.de/
  • hit the copy button and go to your lemmy tab that has you signed in and search for that url you copied (I open that community in a new tab)
  • sometimes it takes a few trys hitting the search button for it to show up
  • then hit the community name on the sidebar if the subscribe button doesnt load a proper button to click
  • then if it says subscription pending just hit it and hit subscribe again, repeat until it says Joined-
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