Finally deleted my reddit account after the AI news. What communities do you recommend on lemmy?
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?
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
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.
Do you like synthesizers? My synthesizer community is mostly me talking to myself about them. !synthesizers@lemm.ee
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.
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.
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
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.
!trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
Also the voyager app has a service to find similar communities based on your subreddits
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!
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 !cranetrainexcavators@lemmy.world , it's rockin' (...and climbin', and glidin')
lemmyverse.net is also a great tool to find communities and instances
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
I just want to say that creating a precedent of not allowing AI models to train on free content essentially means that when the models get cheap enough for average joes to train their own, average joes won’t be able to.
We’ll have to use the models owned by huge corporations with deep pockets, because those will be the only legal ones.
To be honest, I doubt that any kind of wiping posts from reddit at this stage will help with this AI deal, before the deal was made, Reddit probably took a snapshot of the database, and is selling that.
Why would they risk user's sabotaging their big payday? Also, doing it this way makes it much easier to quantify the data they are selling since they are working with a static database dump and not a live database that keeps changing.
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
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
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
You could look for foreign communities who speak different languages and practice speaking to them through Lemmy if you wanted to.
For the longest time, I’ve pursued languages and was just posting on foreign-language communities because I like to learn them and I seek contact with foreigners just to practice my languages.
Mostly I posted in Spanish and German having learned some of those languages growing up and more recently when I took up learning on Busuu.
Where I live, Spanish is a more common foreign language because of our Hispanic population and my family too. I also used a DNA kit that showed me what heritage I had (Mostly English and German but I inherited some Mexican from my mother’s great grandmother from when I was little. So that’s also why I pursue languages.
I also pursue them as sort of a hobby of mine.
This is just an idea I had in mind from my recent activity here on Lemmy. I’m actually on lemmus.org and moved from lemm.ee but I seek contact with some foreigners for my languages.
Maybe join lemm.ee or lemmus.org if not that?
Just go to communities and select all… go shopping!
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.
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 👍
I am making the insane people Facebook one really fun these days.
Welcome! It's difficult for me to suggest specific communities because my favorites to read are highly individual. I suggest sorting /all by Active, Scaled, and New to assist in discovery.
Finally, please participate and share content! Lemmy needs it to thrive.
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
It’s still pretty small and quiet, but anyone is welcome to post their factorial observations there.
https://lemmy.zip/c/interestingshare
Interesting share, just posts of stuff people thought was interesting.
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
I'd recommend filtering by all instances (servers) and see which ones show up, which is kind of like r/all. Just a word of warning that everyone and their dog seems to have a NSFW community with three niche images that make you wonder how that's even a thing.
I couldnt tell you, im starting to block most of the communities that im coming across. All they post about is trump or echo on about some political stance. Its like they are just trying to either piss people off to get reactions or whip eachother into a political coma frenzy. It feels just like reddit to me, im starting to think Lemmy has the same bot problems.
Ill probably just end up using lemmy for inane memes and or porn, as i have yet to come across anything informative. I haven't really done any serious looking tho, so.... shrug
You're an idiot - you've wasted a decade
