Can you recommend any communities?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52077461
Not here long from Reddit, looking for suggestions of fun and entertaining places.
Anything but sport ir politics and I'm likely to check it out.
Thank you!
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I browse by All and just subscribe to anything that looks interesting. After a while, you should have some interesting/popular communities in your feed.
Honestly, there are so few posts here compared to Reddit, I'm still browsing by All, even after 3 years. Every time I think I have enough interesting community subscriptions, some new community pops up in All that I want to follow.
Also, make sure to switch between Hot, Active, Scaled and Top 6 Hour so things don't get stale. It's not as addicting as reddit, so there is going to be some adjustment.
I keep it on Hot. When I run out of things to browse, it's time to put my phone down and go do something productive.
With Reddit, even with a curated subscription list, I never ran out of things to browse. I could accidentally spend all day on Reddit.
With Lemmy, I have a stopping point. Eventually, I either lose interest in my feed, or I catch up to yesterday's posts. Either way, it helps me to switch gears and get offline for a bit.
I'd recommend trying "scaled" if you haven't already. It's like "hot" except smaller / less active communities get boosted. I like it because smaller communities get drowned out by the larger ones otherwise.
Keep in mind that "all" only contains communities that at least one other person on your server is subscribed to. That's fine on a big server like lemmy.world, but on a smaller server you'll miss out on a lot of communities if you just rely on the "all" view.
Here's Lemmy Explorer, with communities sorted by number of subscribers.
You can check if communities similar to what you liked on Reddit have any subscribers, which many will not.
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=subscribers
Another tip is to add a zero to the end of the score to make it correlate to a similar Reddit score. So, fifty upvotes on Lemmy is about the same as 500 upvotes on Reddit.
So glad you asked! We have a small group that meets Friday nights under the Brooklyn Bridge. The password is Sic Semper Tyrannis.
[email protected] has some of the best memes.
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] all get frequent updates of very cute nocturnal critters
[email protected] gets some wild and fun questions pretty regularly
Edit: We're already in a asklemmy community, so here's another:
[email protected] is rather active and gets some good traction
And the sexiest, funniest, most interesting mods.
You can find Communities:
Places of note:
![email protected]
[email protected]
Lemmy.World has a starter guide here
Others
Aww - Unpopular Opinion - No Stupid Questions - General Discussion
![email protected] & ![email protected] are both critical sites of Lemmy culture. Fuck the beans, whats going on with Bobby Glendys?
What are you interested in? Look for communities that relate to your interests.
Keep in mind that Lemmy is decentralized - there's multiple servers, not just one. You can subscribe to communities even if they're on other servers though. There's some browser sites that let you browse communities across multiple servers.
When you find an interesting community look up the other communities the posters and commentators post and comment in. Three dots > View user.
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Its my go to for non political\sports\drama. People just doing interesting little projects, there are a few of shoots of the sub out there too.
peanuts (the cartoon)
Unixsocks.
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