It’s small enough that just browsing all will actually show you all.
Also big enough for that to be a somewhat unhealthy amount of content to keep up with.
Keep up with? Just browse some posts on /all while popping, then go live a life.
Well yeah, but to say browsing all will actually let you see everything is a bit of an exaggeration if that’s what you do.
Like I said. It’s possible, but probably not something anyone should actually be doing.
Pimple popping, my favorite thing to do while browsing lemmy
My intended point is that browsing all is a viable way to find communities. You won’t miss many communities if you browse everything. Then subscribe to what you like, block what you really dislike.
You’re right that all can be overwhelming and distasteful, but at least it really is everything, as opposed to the r/all, which was heavily filtered.
/all, top of last 12 hours has been my go-to
It might end up showing all the communities but it won’t show you every post. Like F1 posts rarely end up in all despite having an active community. You’re more likely to see posts from formuladank than formula 1.
Browse /all, sort by new, you’ll see every post your Lemmy instance is aware of.
Depends which instance you’re on!
Ah yes.
I suppose if your instance isn’t federated with everyone, that would be an issue.
I don’t think it’s just federation, I believe for posts to appear in your instance’s All feed then at least someone on that instance needs to be subscribed to the associated community
I usually sort All by top 12 or 6, depending on how recently I last checked. That’s how I keep up with the general chatter. And I refresh my subscriptions by new once in a while to take part in the topics I enjoy as they emerge.
Lemmy is a lot smaller than reddit so its more acceptable to post niche content in more generic communities. That being said I really like
Welcome to Lemmy!
The fun hole link seems to be dead
It should be !funhole@lemmy.sdf.org
thanks
Yea it totally broke my Eternity client and I had to kill it and restart.
Happy to be here! I’ve had this account since the Great Migration of 2023, but I was slow to actually leave Reddit because the dumpster fire was too enticing. Thanks for the recommendations.
Fun fact: Even if Spez banned you from Reddit, you can still edit your old comments. I just recently discovered that.
Anyways, welcome to Lemmy!
Oh, hey, I started one of those!
So happy you like it!
For any fellow weebs, there’s an instance, ani.social. It is host to a bunch of relevant communities.
!shitty_million_dollar_ideas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
This one is good for discovering new ones !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
Welcome!
- !casualconversation@lemm.ee
- !cats@lemmy.world
- !showerthoughts@lemmy.world
- !pics@lemmy.world
- !science@lemmy.world
- !todayilearned@lemmy.world
- !nostalgia@lemmy.ca
- !space@lemmy.world
- !bats@lemmy.world
- !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
- !movies@lemm.ee for movie discussions rather than news
- !yurop@lemm.ee
And then a few specific
Cats 404
Some similar communities from my list:
!beavers@lemmy.world
!birding@lemmy.world
!lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world
!squirrels@lemmy.ca
!superbowl@lemmy.world
Sadly, Lemmy is too small to have many active niche communities of its own, so as already said your best bet is just viewing all.
Alongside this, viewing specific instances can give you a slightly more curated experience than just all of Lemmy.
Not to be too biased or anything, but I mod
and
I also really like
The userbases on all of these communities are a little smaller, but steady and the vibe is more positively authentic than Reddit alternatives.
Hope to see you in !tenforward@lemmy.world
Rather than particular communities, I tend to just do all - last 12 hours.
Welcome!
I don’t have specific recommendations on hand because I’m on mobile, but you can look through this guide from !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca for other ways to discover communities
https://lemmy.ca/post/11285664
Following the promo communities works great so you can passively learn about new things when they get promoted
Just browse all tbh
Shameless plug for !cfb@fanaticus.social it’s the offseason so it’s not crazy active. But if you’re looking for college football…
Welcome back! Depends on what you like, there’s a good chunk of communities now. Just make sure to keep expectations in check, we’re not Reddit, a good community here has a couple of posts a day and dozens, not thousands of comments. Your post here I’d say is doing pretty well.
We’re still growing, slowly, but you’re proof that people are growing tired of corporate social media.
Yeah, I couldn’t sleep last night, so I was looking around here for a while. I think browsing all might be good enough for now. I’m also really digging the smaller size; it seems to allow all posts made in good faith to get decent engagement. On Reddit, the early downvote I got on this post would have been a death sentence for responses, but now I’ve got lots to go off of here
Yeah we don’t have the post counts to ignore one just because it got down voted once ! There are many posts that come back from the dead.
And I say this to everyone, you’re already doing it’d be the change you want to see. If there’s a niche community with no posts, start posting. People will gather to it.
My favorites are 196 and lemmyshitpost. Nostupidquestions can also be interesting sometimes. I’d recommend searching for the names of your favorite subreddits and checking if they have moved over here.
Yeah !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone is one of my favorite communities for wholesome memes.
Welcome! There’s a lot of actually good content on here if you avoid Hexbear and lemmy.ml.
I go back and anonymously browse Reddit sometimes and it feels plastic.
Conversely, if you want less cheap comments like this one you should not.
The non misogynistic ones. Good luck finding those. welcome to Reddit circa 2005 before hating women was considered not ok as it didn’t affect anyone’s bottom dollar. Freeze peaches and all that shit that goes with it.
Freeze peaches? Was that a voice to text typo of free speech or is it some meme I’m unaware of lmao.
It’s a take on how hate speech gets defended as ‘Muh free speech’. It became a meme on shitredditsays.
