I’m tryna get my friend off Reddit and to join the Lemmy dark side. He seems cooperative so far. What communities should I recommend to him?
Rather than try out other people’s preferences, browse all / new, invest a little time learning how to block instances, communities and users and in no time you’ll be browsing content you want to see. Not what any of us want you to see.
Don’t. Tell him to browse /all and block the ones he doesn’t like. And sub to the ones he likes.
I also came from Reddit, and I tried to use a community migration tool. Like for example, I like Animal Crossing (the Nintendo game), and there are 3-4 Animal Crossing communities, but none are active. One is posted to by a bot. There is basically no Animal Crossing community on Lemmy, even though spaces exist. Same for my favourite band, favourite singer, favourite film — all of which had active communities on Reddit.
So the point is to discover them.
That said, I’m a fan of Casual Conversation, Ask Lemmy, and this one — the ones that get people talking.
Also, tell him to ignore content mills — accounts (not sure if bot or person) that just post stuff but don’t discuss anything. A dead giveaway is when they post something that is freely available but they post blog spam. Like it would have cost you nothing to just link to the content, but you’re hiding it behind ads. So either it’s your business or you’re the tool of whomever’s business it is. And that’s not really a user you want to follow. Block a few of those and you’ll see more of the “real” Lemmy. (Also, become part of the “real” Lemmy by engaging others in discussion. Not everyone, and definitely don’t entertain rude people or people who are trying to herd you into an answer so they can gainsay you — karma isn’t a thing on Lemmy, and people who act like it is are, at best, a waste of time, and safely ignored.)
there are 3-4 Animal Crossing communities, but none are active. One is posted to by a bot. There is basically no Animal Crossing community on Lemmy, even though spaces exist. Same for my favourite band, favourite singer, favourite film — all of which had active communities on Reddit.
Admins need to do routine pruning…
A shit ton of people jumped over from reddit and instantly created a bunch of communities just so they’d be “top mod” but there was either no demand or no supply. So accounts that mod 20-30 communities went inactive years ago at this point.
I picked up a /fantheories community no one had ever really posted to, just because I didn’t want to post somewhere that didn’t have an active mod.
But I guess any type of community on reddit that isn’t on lemmy is gonna get created anyways.
But if you see dead communities about something you’re interested in, admins are usually pretty thankful if someone offers to take it.
I think some people are also making communities, privating them and just sitting on them so no one else can make one with the same name. I tried to create a forkliftmemes community on .world and it would not let me.
Weird…
But make a post to the support community mentioning it’s glitched and asking for it.
They’ll most likely fix it and give it to you because whoever the current mod is didn’t even notice.
I think I’ll do that, thank you 🙂
i like to browse “all”, i just ignore any communities i dont care about so they dont clog it.
This is exactly what I do and then I use communities that I see popping up regularly or that look interesting for my homepage. If I’m just scrolling cuz I’m bored I’m on all. If I don’t have much time I just have the home feed
I’ve found this a good tool for searching communities: https://lemmyverse.net/communities
What I did was search for similar communities/subreddits I followed on Reddit. After that, went through “communities” and subbed to any that looked interesting.
Still figuring this out , but don’t hype it cause there’s less activity. To me it’s mostly comment quality here
We need people to take the best/smart stuff from reddit and discuss it here with sources that aren’t enshitified.
Once people see the same or better content here, you’ve planted them here.
This site is like reddit 1.0 when the front-page had BSD/Linux discussions. Hopefully the enshitification of social media continues.
It took Digg slipping once to enrich reddit.
I guess it depends on their interests.
I remember him looking for some news communities. He says he also likes some “super niche, esoteric memes” or something like that
Funhole
What are his interests? I can make a few suggestions based on them. There is a search bar where he can filter for communities containing keywords he looks for. I also suggest browsing by All, subscribing to communities that interest him, and blocking the communities and users (sometimes it’s a handful of users sharing unwanted content around multiple communities) he doesn’t want to see.
This place doesn’t work like reddit. I mean, it’s supposed to, but the communities are too small. Everyone basically reads the “All” feed and uses the communities as hashtags essentially.
There are some larger communities, but this place kind of sucks
