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!
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
These front ends already added a lot of value for me than Reddit when using the desktop site.
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
Oh thats great thanks! Ill def be using that.
Sweet! I didn’t know about Old.lemmy.world. Thanks so much!
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: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Easy there bot, don’t hurt yourself.
lmao
I would actually recommend [email protected] instead. The admins of lemmy.ml are weirdly hostile towards anime, but ani.social is an anime-specific instance.
What a saint!
@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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
I’m new here. I never realized how much I’ve always hated the entire concept of an algorithm until now. This is amazing.
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.
There’s no algorithm feeding you content on Lemmy, which I think most of its denizens regard as a good thing. I certainly do. You’ve got to self-curate! Of course, some of the curation occurs at the instance level, with admins defederating other instances. But you’re free to make accounts on any number of instances, or even host your own! I think Lemmy’s really grown on me.
And yeah, there’s lots of furry porn, if you’re into that.
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.
There are tons of moe-related anime communities that annoy the hell out of me. It’s insane and stupid af.
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.“
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’ve blocked so many users who ONLY post negative news stories. And porn.
I use different sites for those, tyvm.
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.
edit: typo
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 :)
That’s how I did it. Many of the Reddit subs have counterparts here.
I can block from all? … thats great news!
I’ve found a few cool ones looking at trending.
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. 😄
Haha, that’s cause the url he copied included his search 😂 https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=trees&order=subscribers
Thanks for sharing my website! I’m glad people find it useful 😁
Thanks for creating it!
^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 was on reddit since 2006, and left a year ago.
Lemmy pretty much sucks because of a lack of content. The communities are there, but they’re…sooooo quiet.
Join the communities you’re interested in and ENGAGE!
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.
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!
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
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: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Thank you!
You’re welcome.
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?
And what is this AI news ?
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.
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!
Also the voyager app has a service to find similar communities based on your subreddits
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’)
lemmyverse.net is also a great tool to find communities and instances
This. Just type your keyword into the search box at https://lemmyverse.net/communities. Copy the address of the community e.g. [email protected] and paste that into the search at https://lemmy.world/search.
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Thanks for the work you do
