The search for communities is a bit of a pain, but !newcommunities has new communities (so not a lot of content yet) and https://browse.feddit.de/ has also a nice overview. You can also scroll through all the new posts and look for communities you like. There are also communities on kbin. Usually when you follow a couple of communities, you stumble upon others.
Thank you!
Heads up, it's ideal to link like !newcommunities@lemmy.world (without the auto generated link format -- why does it do that??). Markdown: [!newcommunities@lemmy.world](/c/newcommunities@lemmy.world). That way the link is relative to whatever instance any particular reader is on. The link you posted goes straight to lemmy.world and thus any reader who isn't a lemmy.world user will have a barrier in usage (they won't be able to subscribe or comment and any relative links in that sub will also have usage barriers).
Hey, welcome to lemmy. Could you please edit the title to include the question (see rule 1)? If you have any questions, lemmy know (:
We can edit titles here??
Yup, lemmy is doing what reddit couldn’t.
OK I'll do that, sorry for breaking the rules!
Check out https://lemmyverse.net/communities
This one helped me out a lot in my search for active communities to join.
At the moment the best way to find new communities imho.
Hey! I’m an apollo user and quit reddit for life after the you know what. I don’t fully understand this platform quite yet either — but web apps like wefwef.app have made the transition easier for me. I created an account on an instance called lemmy.world (<- that is a full URL that you can copy and paste and join from on a browser) and searched for “subfeddits” using the wefwef.app search function.
i also found a few communities using : https://browse.feddit.de/
all this to say that i’m right there with you and i hope that this helps. There are more ways to find communities and I’m sure others will help you as well!
Thank you! I'm still trying to get used to all this, I haven't received any notification of replies!
Welcome! I second https://lemmyverse.net/communities/ - it's a great way to find migrating communities and also new ones that have sprung up organically!
Also, for future reference, please put the question in the title of your post (rule 1). This helps people know if they're gonna be able to help you before they even click to read more. :)
I personally use https://lemmy.world/communities for communities on this instance and https://browse.feddit.de/ for communities across instances
Yep. Don't forget you're not limited to lemmy instances.
I'm on Kbin and follow this lemmy community from there. Commenting/reading with my kbin account and on kbin's site. But like I don't have to limit myself to kbin, you don't have to limit yourself to lemmy.
Which takes some getting used to. Hell, apparently you can access lemmy through mastodon(the fediverse twitter alternative). Apparently that sucks, but it is possible. Kbin -> Lemmy works great though.
Caveat: both lemmy and kbin are still in beta/alpha. So bugs are still being fixed as we speak. Unlike reddit it's taking the people running these instances weeks not decades to fix though.
TLDR: it all takes some getting used to, there's still work to be done, but it's already better than reddit in many ways.
I collected some resources that can help in this post, like the aforementioned lemmyverse.net. Another useful trick I’ve found is going to instances dedicated to specific interests (like programming.dev) and browsing their communities list.
The first couple links in my post are kbin specific but the rest should be useful to everybody!
You are in a large instance, so searching for communities shouldn't be so much of a hassle, since most are fetched. You use the feddit community browser, look for some keyword of your interest and if it exists you just search it within your instance. Subscribe and you're done.
If you for some reason can't find it, it means it is not fetched yet.
So you copy the whole URL (https://any.instance/c/anycommunity), paste in the search bar and then search again for the community name only. It will show up and you can subscribe to it.
!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.
All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.
Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.
Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.
If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.
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