Ive been on reddit for more than a decade. Kinda bittersweet, but its not the first time I have moved on from an internet site. I just cant support reddit and sucking up all my posts for AI purposes. Feels terrible and spammy. Ive been a reddit premium holder for many many years.
Anyways, what communities do you recommend?
Welcome to Lemmy!
I found that a large number of communities have been named after popular, and less popular, subreddits. So I found them easy to find. There was an old r/Redditalternatives post that has a decent range of communities to start out, which I’ve copied below. It is similar to the default subreddits.:
*Note:*The “World” hyperlink takes you to the Lemmy.World communitiy.
General
- Asklemmy (ee, world)
- Showerthoughts (ee, world)
- General discussions (ee, world)
- Mildly Infuriating (ee, world)
- You Should Know (ee, world)
- No Stupid Questions (ee, world)
- Mildly Interesting (ee, world)
- Memes (ee, world)
- Lemmy Shitpost (ee, world)
- Videos (ee, world)
News/Politics
Pets and such
Gaming
TV and Music
Pics and Art
Technology and Science
- Technology (ee, world)
- Science (ee, world)
- Fediverse (ee, world)
- Android (ee, world)
- Hardware (ee, world)
- Privacy Guides (ee, world)
Sports
Others
Oh, by the way: If you’re a fan of the classic “Old.reddit.com” look, the Programming.Dev instance has an identical interface: https://old.programming.dev/?sort=Hot&listingType=All .
It’s federated with Lemmy.World so all the same posts will appear. I’m partial to that on Desktop browser, and stick with https://p.lemmy.world for mobile.
It works on lemmy.world as well!
The only thing that is unfortunate about the old.lemmy.world site is that the block feature is broken. I try to curate my All feed by blocking spammers and communities I am not interested in, but nothing happens when you click the Block button on any post.
Interesting, I tried a simple test with a user and it worked fine, blocked them on the first attempt. I actually had difficulty unblocking them later, though, I don’t think it “stuck” and had to refresh and/or navigate to a different page, and then unblock them and it worked
/shrug
Sweet! I didn’t know about Old.lemmy.world. Thanks so much!
Oh thats great thanks! Ill def be using that.
What a saint!
Thanks for this! I’ve been here since the 3rd party app shutdown and this is great!
Also a little plug for [email protected] which is our WhitePeopleTwitter replacement.
Just switch between all and subscribed, and subscribe to communities you like. It won’t be long before you have a decently curated subscribed list.
Don’t be afraid to block communities so they don’t show up in All.
You should expect things to work more like the early Reddit days when there weren’t a lot of subreddits.
I want to stress that you are expected to block communities you’re not interested in.
There’s no content curation between instances (an instance is like a niche mini-reddit, but seamlessly connected to this one), so you will end up with US Politics next to Furry porn, next to Star Trek memes, next to NZ local news, next to sports statistics, next to AI Porn, unless you start blocking.
Upside is you can get great science content, AND local news, AND your favorite porn, AND your brand of shitpost/memes in your feed/subscriptions without any hassle.
I started an alt account on here for the porn subs and went to a porn specific instance, and my god, that was a lot of blocking, almost not worth the effort compared to what I have on my Reddit porn account.
My biggest peeve is people who start many dozens of porn starlet comms with a handful of posts, or celebrity stalking comms with a handful of posts, or the myriad US sports teams fed by some bot.
I wish there was a way to just block whole categories of comms, now I’ve had to resort to blocking the user starting them, which seems like overkill.
My biggest pet peeve is when an up and coming thot takes one pic and spams it everywhere.
I end up blocking a ton of content creators as a result of that. I don’t need to see your same exact pic in 20 different communities.
There are tons of moe-related anime communities that annoy the hell out of me. It’s insane and stupid af.
So. Much. Furry. Porn.
I e basically gotten to a point where my subscriptions make up such a long list of things I’m even tangentially interested in that I don’t even browse all anymore. I locked so much of the furry porn, but maybe opening all of the communities to block them manually made my feed think I was into it?
Lemmy doesn’t cater the All feed to you like other social media platforms - it doesn’t take into account which posts you open, which posts you upvote, etc.
It’s almost all on a couple instances. I don’t remember if lemmy supports instance blocking yet, but several apps do, so it’s a lot easier to block that way.
Lemmy supports instance blocking as of version 0.19. Some clients also support instance blocking for pre-0.19 instances.
My client is just set to not display nsfw posts. I never see it and I’ve blocked very few communities.
This is pretty good advice. Also, by “early Reddit days“ they mean 18 years ago, “early Reddit days,” not, “when you were new to Reddit.“
I’ve found a few cool ones looking at trending.
That’s how I did it. Many of the Reddit subs have counterparts here.
Just to piggy back you can also block entire instances, which becomes more useful when using discovery sorts like scaled. Like if the entire instance is in a language you don’t speak, block that shit!
Do you like synthesizers? My synthesizer community is mostly me talking to myself about them. [email protected]
I’d use Lemmy Explorer to find communities that interest you. The link I just shared is sorted by subscriber count, so it should show the most active communities at the top.
It also auto searches “trees” FYI
That’s kinda hilarious. I was looking for cannabis related communities too. Believe it or not, I haven’t had any cannabis today, either. 😄
^This is the way.
I think that hobby communities here can all benefit from having more members. If you have interest in starting out in any of these communities I am always around, and I know there is a small but dedicated base here.
The Star Wars community is a place I have a personal interest in making somewhere positive to talk about the parts of Star Wars people really enjoy. I’m happy to see that it has started to take off more over time.
Communities about history and oddities are also places where kids and core members have really done a lot to make the community a place with a foundation.
Honestly, the communities right now are so small I can’t really recommend them. I just browse all.
I miss reddit because you could have an extremely niche community with 10,000 people contributing. It’s hard to get 10 people going here.
Hopefully reddit will keep fucking up and lemmy will grow. I really like it here with no ads but miss feeding my niche interests on the reddit subs. Most have subs here but they are just empty.
Be the change!
Are you suggesting a Multiplicty type scenario?
Like…making a bunch of clones of yourself to date Andie MacDowell??
If you can, I guess…I just meant, post a lot. But the clone thing is cool too
I made the switch a few days ago too and I’m already loving it. The people saying sort by all and subscribe/block as needed are on the money, really easy to curate a selection of good stuff. Content and engagement is more organic here it seems.
I’m about to delete the rest of my social media and jump on mastodon/pixelfed/peer tube etc. good luck and welcome to the federation!
If you want something to laugh at, check out the following.
General
- Antique Memes Roadshow
- Awful Taste But Great Execution
- Birds With Arms
- Funny Animals
- Humor
- Loading Artist comics
- Sci-Fi Memes
- South Park Memes
- funny signs
- 4chan
Text Based
Video Based
Movie and TV Show
It’s honestly still small enough that anything with a few upvotes shows will appear in the main feed. I’ve just scrolled through and followed as I saw things I’m interested in, and blocked things I don’t ever want to see.
Just wanted to thank everyone recommending communities to subscribe to. I thought I had a good mixture already. Discovered a dozen new ones just based on the comments here!
Lemmy is very small in comparison, although every time reddit manages to do another silly thing Lemmy grows leaps and bounds. It’s a slow investment in a better internet, and it’s going to take a long time to slowly show the world that corporations don’t have to control everything on the internet.
That being said I’m partial to [email protected] , it’s rockin’ (…and climbin’, and glidin’)
Can we get a bit more info on your likes and interests? What subreddits did you subscribe to? I’m happy to recommend some but since I enjoy things like [email protected] that have dependencies such as being a metal fan, knowing a bit more about what you’re looking for will help.
But regardless, welcome aboard and I hope you like Star Trek and Linux references!
Also the voyager app has a service to find similar communities based on your subreddits
Welcome fellow ex-pat
What subs did you like and maybe we can help find substitutions.
One thing to note is that anything you do on the fediverse is visible in the activitypub so be mindful of that if there’s aspects of your online identity you want to keep private.
Not that it’s less secure than putting everything on Reddit but what you “like”/“upvote” and dislike/downvote show in the activity log even if your client/site doesn’t necessarily show it.
For me it’s no big deal but thought I’d just add the caveat.
So what kind of stuff do you like/looking for?
If you like star trek you’re in luck as there’s
I like 3d printing so there’s
I just want to say that creating a precedent of not allowing AI models to train on free content essentially means that when the models get cheap enough for average joes to train their own, average joes won’t be able to.
We’ll have to use the models owned by huge corporations with deep pockets, because those will be the only legal ones.
