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Finally deleted my reddit account after the AI news. What communities do you recommend on lemmy?

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?

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  • 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

    !tenforward@lemmy.world

    !risa@startrek.website

    !startrek@startrek.website

    I like 3d printing so there’s

    !functionalprint@kbin.social

    !3dprinting@lemmy.world

  • We need to save people from reddit. Ask other users to join Lemmy. People who create memes should flood Facebook, instagram etc with memes to move to Lemmy

  • Fediverse postings are probably also being used for AI training. Just so you won't be too shocked when it eventually comes out in the future.

    • Sure, but it hits different when there is a company of ill-repute specifically profiting off of your data acting as the broker.

  • Also, if you put "old." in front of your URL you get the old view of the site, which I liked a lot more personally, so it's probably worth a try for you too.

  • It's pretty easy to curate to what you like, ban communities you definitely don't like and subscribe to communities you really like while switching between all and subscribed based whether or not you want to discover new communities. You may also want to play around with what instance you use based on who they're federated with or if you want multiple accounts but that's not usually necessary.

    If you're a pirate I'd recommend a lot of communities from lemmy.dbzer0.com if you're into Linux there is a fuck ton of Linux communities I'm sure you'll come across. Lemmy is full of techy and political topics mostly but there's some great memes too. I recommend the memes@lemmy.ml personally bc it matches my personal politics more closely. If you used r/196 you may feel more at him in lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Mostly you'll find that Lemmy lacks the hyper niche and fandom communities you'd find on Reddit but everything else is generally here. You can always make a niche community your self but you'll likely end up being the one posting 90% of the time unless you find some people really interested beforehand. Good luck 👍

  • Try the Lemmyverse community search and use whatever keywords you are interested in. Subscribe to a bunch of communities and see if that brings interesting stuff to your front page. If you notice you’re seeing uninteresting stuff from certain communities, unsubscribe to those and keep on refining.

    Also, if you’re interested in unexpected factorials, here’s the community for you.

    !unexpectedfactorial@sopuli.xyz

    unexpectedfactorial

    It’s still pretty small and quiet, but anyone is welcome to post their factorial observations there.

  • 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.

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