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?
Same.
Not just is there a lack of content here, but the echo chamber effect is so much worse here than it was on Reddit.
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
I would actually recommend !anime@ani.social instead. The admins of lemmy.ml are weirdly hostile towards anime, but ani.social is an anime-specific instance.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !showerthoughts@lemmy.world, !general@lemmy.world, !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world, !youshouldknow@lemmy.world, !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world, !mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world, !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world, !videos@lemmy.world, !world@lemmy.world, !aww@lemmy.world, !cat@lemmy.world, !retrogaming@lemmy.world, !nintendo@lemmy.world, !music@lemmy.world, !pics@lemmy.world, !digitalart@lemmy.world, !mobilewallpaper@lemmy.world, !wallpapers@lemmy.world, !technology@lemmy.world, !science@lemmy.world, !fediverse@lemmy.world, !football@lemmy.world, !nba@lemmy.world, !nfl@lemmy.world, !foodporn@lemmy.world, !3dprinting@lemmy.world
Easy there bot, don’t hurt yourself.
lmao
Thanks for this! I’ve been here since the 3rd party app shutdown and this is great!
Also a little plug for !microblog_memes@lemmy.world which is our WhitePeopleTwitter replacement.
What a saint!
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!
Sweet! I didn’t know about Old.lemmy.world. Thanks so much!
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
Yeah both lemmy.world and us have the same alternate frontends at the same subdomains (apart from voyager in which they went for m for mobile and we did v for voyager)
Links for all four of them
- Photon (p.) - world | programming.dev
- Alexandrite (a.) - world | programming.dev
- Voyager (m. and v.) world | programming.dev
- Mlmym (old.) world | programming.dev
@AGD4 great list!
@mesamunefire once you get your head around how to use urls from your instance, another useful directory is the Kbin Collections - like multireddits.
These are basically multis that Kbin users curated and made public so that others from kbin can subscribe to them, but since it lists all the communities you can manually add what you want in your lemmy.world account.
I’m kind of new here too, why do all these communities have both a lemmy.ee and lemmy.world version? Is it just that someone happened to set them up on both instances so now there’s two, or is there some kind of crosspost/mirroring going on?
It depends on how much content you’re looking for. You can’t get the “infinite scroll” like you could on reddit, the user base just isn’t there. The closest you can get is browsing all, but it’s still limited. Search for communities based on your interests and then follow the communities that seem most active, as there will likely be duplicates. I left reddit last year when they killed the apps. I will say two things about my transition to lemmy: One, the content I do get is more tailored and specific. Two, I spend less time attached to my phone because new content isn’t pouring in by the second. I view these as positives.
Welcome!
See this post on !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca for a guide how to find communities / resources that help
https://lemmy.ca/post/11285664
I recommend subscribing to more things that you might have on Reddit, and hunting around on the pages linked above for stuff related to your interests
I bailed around 8 months ago, I felt the same way and that was only 3 years into it. I block a lot of news type communities in all You’ll notice some communities are similar/same as it is the local vs all of lemmy instances
!memes@lemmy.ml !asklemmy@lemmy.world !privacy@lemmy.ml !retrogaming@lemmy.world !starwarsmemes@lemmy.world (prequelmemes is small here mostly not active) !bikinibottomtwitter@lemmy.world !lotrmemes@midwest.social !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
I will say star trek is more popular here and its pretty good !risa@startrek.website
Aside from the general recommendations, I’ve had the most fun finding stuff I’m into and posting/commenting to build a little momentum in the communities.
Most recently I’ve been into chess, so I’ve been fairly active in !anarchychess@sopuli.xyz and !chess@lemmy.ml
As someone who mostly left behind a 13 y/o reddit account with a ton karma when the api nonsense happened, the fuck is reddit premium?
You’ve never heard of Reddit Premium in 13 years? It’s the paid account that got rid of the ads and used to give you a few hundred coins per month. It was like $60/year.
I thought reddit gold was the paid account. I haven’t heard of these coins either.
Gold was the standard award up until those in charge saw that they could get more money from people by creating other awards. Coins were the virtual currency used to buy the awards.
And what is this AI news ?
Did you remember to delete all you posts and comments before deleting your account? Because fuck Reddit!
Why? Unless you’re in a few location in the world, they won’t actually delete your valuable data.
Deleting your account only deletes your username from posts and comments. Why leave behind useful content?
Fuck Reddit!
But they would keep that information behind the scenes and only display [deleted] or whatever it said.
You’re missing the point.
No you’re missing the point, unless you live in a location that has laws to force companies to actually delete your data, they won’t actually delete it and thus deleting your account will achieve nothing.
No one gives a shit if Reddit stores your posts in the background, hidden from the front-end, it’s about removing useful content from the public.
Thus… Deleting all your posts and comments before deleting your account.
No, it’s about removing content from being sold to AI or other companies.
No one gives a shit about the front-end.
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 !metalmemes@lemmy.world 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!
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
lemmyverse.net is also a great tool to find communities and instances
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Thanks for the work you do
This. Just type your keyword into the search box at https://lemmyverse.net/communities. Copy the address of the community e.g. !world@lemmy.world and paste that into the search at https://lemmy.world/search.
- Sort by new
- Subscribe to stuff
Agree, I start my day on active, but once I’ve seen all those I do top six hours, then new.
- Block stuff you don’t want to see. I block porn, sports & country specific ones that I do not speak the language.
Just hide NSFW content. 98% of that is porn.
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 can block from all? … thats great news!
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!
I’ve found a few cool ones looking at trending.
To add to this, block users too. The community is so small here that you start to recognise names of annoying people and trolls. I’m all for a robust discussion, but if I know someone is always going to argue in bad faith or they’re literally here just to stir shit, it’s just easier to block them. Didn’t really work with Reddit, but here it’s got a decent impact.
I’m not gonna name names, but imo Lemmy already has a couple of its own Gallowboob-types who just mass repost any and every shitty meme they see to multiple communities, and have already gotten high off their minimal Lemmy-celebrity status. I get Lemmy needs content, but personally I have no interest in seeing Lemmy just become a place for Reddit hand-me-down memes. So yeah, there are definitely a few users that blocking them will significantly improve your Lemmy experience.
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Unless yee be thee knights who shan’t let the filth slide 🫡 not without a fair comment back.
It’s not everybody’s job!
But if your mental health can take it, not blocking anybody should make this place more inviting to others, especially new users. (Quick example would be a news story about a politician where there are only a few top level comments which all miss the mark. If I see them, I can call them out, which means a newcomer perusing the comments Is more likely to think Lemmy a place for high-quality discourse.)
Like I said, it’s repeat offenders that I block. I’m not blocking everyone I disagree with our anything like that. There’s some edgelord Reddit behaviour occasionally and I’d prefer that stayed back there.
Haha oh yah.
Well, the very worst of the worst are the #1 folks I’ll try my best never to block. The more prolific the moron, the more impact I can have as a part of the chorus of sanity!
Cheers :)
I’ve blocked so many users who ONLY post negative news stories. And porn.
I use different sites for those, tyvm.
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.
My biggest pet peeve is that i don’t know what a pet peeve is.
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?
I’m new here. I never realized how much I’ve always hated the entire concept of an algorithm until now. This is amazing.
My client is just set to not display nsfw posts. I never see it and I’ve blocked very few communities.
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.
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