It’s not so much the communities as the number of posts, I open Lemmy and see posts I saw yesterday only half way down the front page.
Trust me it was worse before the reddit refugees came, I would wait a month before scrolling
yeah, that’s something that is getting slightly better over time if you sub to more instances outside.
Can you please elaborate what you mean by this? Like register at sh.itjust.works, lemmy.world, etc?
Not really, just subscribe to communities outside of your instance.
Like !osvaldo12@lemmy.fancywhale.ca. just subscribing to this from another instance and getting updates on your account regardless where it’s from. Sorry if you already knew that.
Gotcha, I understand and will do that!
Use lemmyverse.net
Click the home icon and set your home instance and then search for whatever you want. All links will open in your home instance and you can then just subscribe.
I’m probably missing something easy, but where do you “just subscribe?”
There are a few communities that show up in lemmyverse, but aren’t showing up when I search in my app (Jerboa)
Open the link from lemmyverse in a browser tab and click Subscribe. If on mobile you might have to expand the sidebar first. Then go back to Jerboa.
You only need one home instance. So you’re on lemmy.world from what I can tell. If you go to their homepage and login, then click communities at the top, you can browse all the communities (subreddits). Just subscribe to whatever you want! Then later when you’re browsing you can sort by subscribed and it’ll be just those topics
Awesome! Thank you!
Even beyond subscribing to other communities that are also on a Lemmy instance, you can throw a wider net and use some form of fediverse software to interact with different kinds of instances.
I think Lemmy software may be a little more limited in this, as I haven’t had much luck subscribing to Mastodon users on my Lemmy accounts, but I can subscribe to Lemmy communities on Mastodon and Calckey. I haven’t really done much with it on Mastodon, but on Calckey I can see Lemmy posts from communities I’m subscribed to in my feed, and I can make a top-level reply to the post but I can’t read or reply to the comments (unless they’re replies to mine) without going to some version of Lemmy to view the rest of the post.
Still, that makes it pretty convenient to scroll through my own Calckey as well as Lemmy, Mastodon, Kbin, Pixelfed, and seemingly basically whatever else I could want. Sure, sometimes I have to switch sites to engage with the content, but that’s as simple as clicking a link or at worst navigating to the post again on the site. With the pace of most instances, that’s not hard to do
It’s also not oversaturated, so people will actually see and interact with what you’re posting, and yet if you cast a wide enough net you can get continuous content to read if you really want to.
I guess the point is, the more you take it into your own hands the more it can do for you.
No need to register. You can just subscribe to their communities with your current account. That’s part of what makes federation so handy. I’m on Reddthat.com but you can see this comment even though you’re on lemmy.world.
Thanks! Pretty neat!
Subscribe to more communities. I have like 50 of them from many different instances and it’s always new content. Make sure to set filter to Last Day or Last 6 hours.
Lemmy.world is the largest instance now I believe with tons of communities so start there.
Honestly, this was helped simply by subbing to a lot of different communities. Each day is a fresh feed. It’s not up to Reddit’s “every single refresh is a brand new front page” level, but it’s enough to be able to scroll for an hour or two each day.
You can find Communities from instances all over the Lemmyverse at https://browse.feddit.de
Another good one is https://lemmyverse.net/communities
On connect there’s an option to hide read posts
Communities for specific video games, like /r/wow or /r/ffxiv
Yep. R/Noita went private and moved to the discord I was already in, but Discord is a terrible replacement for Reddit. I don’t have time to read everything in the community to find anything in the community… So now I only have the comment section in FuryForged to find new discoveries in one of the most ridiculously complicated physics simulators I play.
It’s an obscure enough community that I doubt it will reopen there, and I’d lose some respect for it if it reopened before Reddit actually listened to a single word we said.
Avid Guild wars 2 player here, I really do miss being on that subreddit. Since reddit was also big, it did allow developers to interact with their players a bit more directly and was a good way to get official info to them.
In this specific case I added browsing the game forums instead of going on reddit, not much has changed except the lessened amount of ads on my screen lol.
Agree. Would be great to have some of them move over, WoW is very quiet here.
I miss the local subs for my city and other local communities around me. They were great for keeping up with what was going on. I can’t stand all the pissing and moaning on Nextdoor. There are a couple of Facebook groups but I refuse to install any Meta apps on my phone.
I have those but there seems to be several across multiple instances with no clear winner and all of them are pretty sparse. But I feel like that should improve with time.
Right now I am missing the hyper specific cat subreddits like catswhoyell and catsinbusinessattire. There are so many that I loved to revisit every 2-3 months and see what was there
Oneorangebraincell
This is definitely one of my favourites. I feel like I have moved to Instagram for my cat fix for now.
!oneorangebraincell@lemmy.world
Only one I found so far but there is hope
I stumbled upon this one
Thanks! Subbed.
Greebles and hitmanimals are always fun too
For me it’s just the smaller gaming ones that aren’t as active or not here, I enjoyed browsing through specific WoW (this isn’t so active), ESO or Diablo subs.
My home page is already in fairly nice shape with “general” interests
Yep definitely feeling this. I’m mostly into flight and space sims… so a niche within a niche. None of these communities made the move over to lemmy with me.
Ask Science Fiction, Who Would Win, The Maw Installation, and similar discussion boards for in-universe questions about fiction.
For those who aren’t familiar, Ask Science Fiction (more accurate parsed as Ask Science: Fiction) is a board for asking and answering questions about fiction from an in-universe perspective. Questions and answers don’t necessarily have to be role-played, but they should assume the internal logic of the universe in reference. Answers from an out-of-universe perspective (“George Lucas didn’t decide that Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker were the same person until later”) are against the rules, though there’s some allowance for media that’s super-meta and can’t be answered otherwise.
Who Would Win is a board for posing hypothetical scenarios, often but not exclusively about fictional characters or factions. Think “Who would win in a fight between Superman and Batman?”. Evidence in the form of references to specific canon media is encouraged.
The Maw Installation (and similar places like the Daystrom Institute for Star Trek) is essentially Ask Science Fiction, but specifically for the Star Wars franchise. I find that boards like this can encourage interesting world-building that makes the original text feel richer, as well as more in-depth critique of the text as media.
I’m sure some of these exist in some form in Lemmy, but I’m still looking for them!
I was about to say I’d like to see something similar to Ask Science Fiction, but with more easy-going mods. It’s fine for the sub to focus on the in-universe perspective while still allowing an out-of-universe comments where they enhance the discussion.
By the way, there is a Daystrom Institute: https://startrek.website/c/daystrominstitute
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: !daystrominstitute@startrek.website
Good bot
Amazing Bot!
I always liked the idea of top-level comments being exclusively in-universe, and out-of-universe comments have to be replies to other comments!
That would be better. But I don’t think there needs to be a rule at all. Some questions are more suited to Watsonian answers, some to Doylist answers, and users are perfectly capable of judging which is which for themselves. The only rule that was needed was, perhaps, a rule against low-effort responses of either sort.
Totally fair! I hope we get a nice board of that style regardless!
I miss the niche trade subs, like r/electricians, r/construction, and r/machinists. Tons of great content on their subs that just isn’t here on Lemmy since most people on those subs don’t skew as techy as most Lemmy users.
Still not worth supporting Reddit though.
r/electricians was the funniest thing on Reddit and I miss it dearly
Justrolledintotheshop is pretty fucking funny too.
Not missing the subreddit itself, but /r/tvtoohigh is a great symbol for how even the most obscure niche subreddits had a steady flow of content.
Best of Redditor Updates 😭
Oh yes! It was my daily dose of wtfness.
/r/bestof was great. Maybe not the actual the best of but it at least had an eclectic mix of interesting comments.
https://kbin.social/m/bestof is similar.
Yeah, I miss it so much. In a couple years hopefully there’ll be something like it here on Lemmy.
Trade communities like construction, electricians (my trade), and oshaviolations.
I started posting to eletricians but i am the only one.
Daddit. It was such a wholesome and helpful community
Dadsplain@lemmy.ca is kinda like daddit. It’s starting to have traction.
!Dadsplain@lemmy.ca for the lazy people like me
Dadworld is trying to be Daddit. It just needs more from there to join.
Edit: network error posted the same thing multiple times.
The art subs, like r/art, graphic design, art nouveau, and all the AI art subs. I was mostly a lurker on those ones but they were really great eye candy.
Also things like earth porn and the nature subs. Was nice to see cool places in my feed.
And the local community subs. I think that will take a long time to develop (if it ever does). I used to get a lot of news on city events from Reddit and without Boost on my phone I’m feeling out of the loop
Art isn’t my world so I’m sure there’s plenty more on lemmyverse.net but I do know !artshare@lemmy.world (Lemmy / Kbin) has been getting going a bit recently.
I went to sub to the comicbook feed yesterday for the same reason and was sad to see there didn’t look to be an active one
I miss all my fun niche subs. Like mirror forsale, were it’s just funny pics of people who sell mirrors or take pics in front of mirrors.
Purple coco, sub for plugs in strange places.
Chairsinwater, its chairs in water and the flair was always NSFW.
There more but those are the top ones I miss.
For some chair action
There’s this one but not as much activity.
Thank you definitely what I wanted.
You would have loved breadstapledtotrees!
Probably. Had a tree sub I miss and there were tons of others.
Plan to go to Reddit soon to scrap my posts and comments then delete my account.
Think I will make a list of those subs and maybe other Lemmy can help start similar ones here.
Every time someone makes one of these threads, I am reminded anew how weird people’s tastes can be 😅
Battlestations exists, but has no content. I just made the first post in order to help stir up some engagement! 😃
Writingprrompts. Such excellent quality content there.
