Long time reddit is fun user and now I feel lost but I feel moving on is the right thing, I was wondering how do I find community spaces like there were on Reddit?
The search for communities is a bit of a pain, but !newcommunities has new communities (so not a lot of content yet) and https://browse.feddit.de/ has also a nice overview. You can also scroll through all the new posts and look for communities you like. There are also communities on kbin. Usually when you follow a couple of communities, you stumble upon others.
There is also https://sub.rehab
Heads up, it’s ideal to link like !newcommunities@lemmy.world (without the auto generated link format – why does it do that??). Markdown:
!newcommunities@lemmy.world. That way the link is relative to whatever instance any particular reader is on. The link you posted goes straight to lemmy.world and thus any reader who isn’t a lemmy.world user will have a barrier in usage (they won’t be able to subscribe or comment and any relative links in that sub will also have usage barriers).Thank you!
Check out https://lemmyverse.net/communities
This one helped me out a lot in my search for active communities to join.
At the moment the best way to find new communities imho.
Hey, welcome to lemmy. Could you please edit the title to include the question (see rule 1)? If you have any questions, lemmy know (:
We can edit titles here??
Yup, lemmy is doing what reddit couldn’t.
OK I’ll do that, sorry for breaking the rules!
This website has a list of replacements for subreddits: https://sub.rehab/
Hey! I’m an apollo user and quit reddit for life after the you know what. I don’t fully understand this platform quite yet either — but web apps like wefwef.app have made the transition easier for me. I created an account on an instance called lemmy.world (<- that is a full URL that you can copy and paste and join from on a browser) and searched for “subfeddits” using the wefwef.app search function.
i also found a few communities using : https://browse.feddit.de/
all this to say that i’m right there with you and i hope that this helps. There are more ways to find communities and I’m sure others will help you as well!
Thank you! I’m still trying to get used to all this, I haven’t received any notification of replies!
Welcome! I second https://lemmyverse.net/communities/ - it’s a great way to find migrating communities and also new ones that have sprung up organically!
Also, for future reference, please put the question in the title of your post (rule 1). This helps people know if they’re gonna be able to help you before they even click to read more. :)
I collected some resources that can help in this post, like the aforementioned lemmyverse.net. Another useful trick I’ve found is going to instances dedicated to specific interests (like programming.dev) and browsing their communities list.
The first couple links in my post are kbin specific but the rest should be useful to everybody!
I personally use https://lemmy.world/communities for communities on this instance and https://browse.feddit.de/ for communities across instances
Yep. Don’t forget you’re not limited to lemmy instances.
I’m on Kbin and follow this lemmy community from there. Commenting/reading with my kbin account and on kbin’s site. But like I don’t have to limit myself to kbin, you don’t have to limit yourself to lemmy.
Which takes some getting used to. Hell, apparently you can access lemmy through mastodon(the fediverse twitter alternative). Apparently that sucks, but it is possible. Kbin -> Lemmy works great though.
Caveat: both lemmy and kbin are still in beta/alpha. So bugs are still being fixed as we speak. Unlike reddit it’s taking the people running these instances weeks not decades to fix though.
TLDR: it all takes some getting used to, there’s still work to be done, but it’s already better than reddit in many ways.
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Yeah, I think it’s ideal that we use multiple types of software (not just multiple instances of the same software). IMO it’s good to have multiple “competitors” (really they’re more collaborators than competitors) because it drives innovation, gives more options, and while forking is always an option, it can be hard to get the ball rolling on actually using some fork.
Personally, I think the kbin dev is really great and started on kbin largely because of that. But right now, Lemmy has more features, fewer bugs, and much better mobile support, so I’m largely shifting to it at least for now (but would probably go back to kbin once/if it has feature parity for the features I care about). I also like how kbin has support for subscribing to or blocking entire domains as well as Mastodon style “micro blog” support (which it calls posts – I hope that gets renamed cause it’s confusing). But Lemmy has mobile app support (thanks to having a working API) and collapsible comments.
You are in a large instance, so searching for communities shouldn’t be so much of a hassle, since most are fetched. You use the feddit community browser, look for some keyword of your interest and if it exists you just search it within your instance. Subscribe and you’re done.
If you for some reason can’t find it, it means it is not fetched yet.
So you copy the whole URL (https://any.instance/c/anycommunity), paste in the search bar and then search again for the community name only. It will show up and you can subscribe to it.
