It's small enough that just browsing all will actually show you all.
this post was submitted on 19 May 2024
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Also big enough for that to be a somewhat unhealthy amount of content to keep up with.
My intended point is that browsing all is a viable way to find communities. You won't miss many communities if you browse everything. Then subscribe to what you like, block what you really dislike.
You're right that all can be overwhelming and distasteful, but at least it really is everything, as opposed to the r/all, which was heavily filtered.
Keep up with? Just browse some posts on /all while popping, then go live a life.
Pimple popping, my favorite thing to do while browsing lemmy
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/all, top of last 12 hours has been my go-to
I usually sort All by top 12 or 6, depending on how recently I last checked. That's how I keep up with the general chatter. And I refresh my subscriptions by new once in a while to take part in the topics I enjoy as they emerge.
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Most niche communities from R*ddit are pretty much dead here unless you are looking forward to being a regular poster yourself. This rather requires sticking to the lemmy.world open feed rather than creating a custom feed with your communities only, if you are looking to scroll a lot instead, of course. Just stick around a bit, see how often what communities and people reach the general feed, elect to block the ones that feel flooding your feed or not to your taste. Maybe give some regularly-posted communities that are previously not in your area of interest some chance before going on a mass block. This place does have a quality and rather genuine people, but in a limited scope.
Honestly, my "all" view is fine. There were a few bots I blocked months ago that just auto reposted everything from Reddit which led to a lot of spam but other than that it's been fine! Then again I did this back on Reddit too.
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TBH I just stick to the feed and block the communities I don't want to see. Especially avoid anything on Hexbear or lemmy ml, those instances are CCP propoganda trying to convince the west to off each other and themselves.
Same here. Everything, sorted by scaled, and I block communities that annoy me. Or entire instances, but so far that's just been hexbear
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Lemmy is a lot smaller than reddit so its more acceptable to post niche content in more generic communities. That being said I really like
Welcome to Lemmy!
Happy to be here! I’ve had this account since the Great Migration of 2023, but I was slow to actually leave Reddit because the dumpster fire was too enticing. Thanks for the recommendations.
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When I moved over I searched for versions of all my reddit communities. Sadly, a lot of them are inactive, but I subbed anyway just in case. Then I went onto all and looked for the top handful that had stuff I liked. Now I mostly stick to my subscribed and flip over to all if I run out.
Welcome!
- [email protected]
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- [email protected] for movie discussions rather than news
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And then a few specific
Some similar communities from my list:
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Just browse all tbh
Do you like animal pictures?
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And I know I've forgot some community.
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Welcome! There's a lot of actually good content on here if you avoid Hexbear and lemmy.ml.
I go back and anonymously browse Reddit sometimes and it feels plastic.
Feels plastic cause it's full of bots. I seriously hope the niche communities don't get chocked to death with bots. But I also see that many went to discord... which I'm not sure if it's an improvement TBH.
Yeah, I saw someone on Lemmy showing screenshots two posts that were copied exactly from like 8 months ago except for a single new legitimate comment. It's wild what LLMs are doing to online interaction and honestly.... this is just the beginning.
Conversely, if you want less cheap comments like this one you should not.
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Funny communities and news ones are usually found in generalist instances such as lemmy.world or lemmy.ml but the most interesting ones are on specialised instances.
The best way to discover them is to go directly to the instance and scroll a bit on the local thread or to go to the community page (ex: lemmy.ml/communities).
Then come back to your instance to visit again or follow the communities you liked.
There is geographically or language specialised instances such as :
- feddit.uk
- feddit.it and most probably
- feddit.[your country code]
but a few geographically/language specialised instances were creative with there name such as
- aussie.zone
- jlai.lu
- midwest.social
There is also subject oriented instances for example
- mander.xyz. Science oriented
- slrpnk.net. Solarpunk oriented
- lemmy.dbzer0.com. Allow content about piracy
and [email protected] is probably the most follow community on the lemmyverse.
You can find community directly from your instance page or from a browser like :
- browse.feddit.de
- lemmyverse.net
The browser helps you find community's names that were never connected to your own instance or specialised instance you didn't knew about.
When connecting for the first time type the url lemmy.world/c/[community's name]@[community's instance], you'll get an error but after refreshing the page you will have access to the community. But that's not new-comers friendly as you'll need another maneuvers to access post published before you connect your instance to the remote community. Still, if you are interested, I can explain you how to do it.
There is also politically oriented instances but some may be blocked by the administrators of your instance. You can check that on lemmy.world/instances.
Finally, if you want to test your options on Lemmy without spamming your favorite communities, you can do that here [email protected].
linuxmemes and the worldnews communities on both .world and .ml
It's good to have both because they bias against each other.
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Rather than particular communities, I tend to just do all - last 12 hours.
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