I’ve been here for a while, and I feel that I see the same again and again.
Or that I cannot actually find stuff when I use the search tools in my client (Voyager).
Any tips?
Your client will only show the communities that your home instance knows about. Your home instance, reddthat.com, doesn’t go out and build a list of everything out there.
Go to lemmyverse.net. They spider the whole Threadiverse to find all communities on all instances.
Click on “Communities” tab. Search or just browse the whole list.
Each community will have a little “copy” icon next to a bit of text like !technology@lemmy.world. Click on that and it’ll copy it. Paste that into your client’s community search field, and it’ll tell your home instance to go talk to the instance where that community is and learn about the community. You can then subscribe to it.
Direct link:
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
EDIT: I’d also add that PieFed’s lead dev, @Rimu@piefed.social, said in a comment I read a day or so ago that the next PieFed release is supposed to add some sort of functionality to improve on this community search situation on PieFed home instances. But for people with home instances that are existing PieFed instances, Lemmy instances, and Mbin instances, lemmyverse.net’s community list is pretty important.
There are also a few other ways to find communities, like posts on !newcommunities@lemmy.world or !communitypromo@lemmy.ca, both of which I recommend as communities to subscribe to themselves. Or check the history of a user that you think is interesting and see where else they hang out — might be they’ve found some good communities.
On the large home instances, you can check “All” instead of “Subscribed” and that’ll show posts from all communities that has at least one user on your home instance subscribed to it. Doesn’t work so well on small home instances, as it’s more-likely that nobody’s yet subscribed to a given community on a remote instance.
I think that right now, lemmyverse.net is still pretty important as a tool for navigating the Threadiverse.
Personally I sort by all, block what I don’t like, and subscribe to what I do.
Any tips?
- Be ok with the fact that there is less content and less stuff going on. That’s a fact. Simply because there is a lot less of us actively participating.
- Start participating a little more yourself (if you don’t already, obviously). Because it’s the only way 1. will change: more participants means more content available, means more attractiveness to potential new users that will then also feel more motivated to participate and create more content ;)
- Filter it the shit out of Lemmy.
I don’t care about the vast majority of ‘political’ content or memes (sorry guys, nothing personal, I’m just too old (and too ill) to waste the time I have left with that). So, I quickly learned to filter those out and almost never see any (which means even less content, btw). My home feed is ‘Subscribed only’ and I’m also not afraid to block someone the moment I realize they’re only there looking to create trouble (here again, they’re not worth my time and attention). - Like suggested already, subscribe to !newcommunities@lemmy.world, !fedigrow@lemmy.zip, & !communitypromo@lemmy.ca to see what’s going on. Fedigrow is a neat place to see where people are actively trying to promote and grow their community (something I used to do myself but had to give up a few months ago, hopefully temporarily)
edit: typos.
I also use Voyager. I browse by “All” and subscribe to communities that look interesting. I figured I’d whittle down my interests over time until I have a nice custom feed to browse, but because Lemmy is so much smaller than Reddit, I still continue to just browse by “All,” even after being here for about 2 years now.
I’ve only blocked a few communities, but they were just some foreign-language communities that were dominating my feed for a while. Whomever owns those instances didn’t mark a language for them, so they’re showing up with everything else uncategorized.
I more or less do the same for finding new communities but I do browse my feed by “scaled” first to try to engage posts early in Comms that I’m interested in, then move to all top twelve hours after.
These are some communities to find new communities:
I’m just hoping it takes time. The website that shall not be named was small at the start. It was only after 15 years and corporate takeover that it turned to shit.
I’m also scared to say anything, due to my experience with anti-speech policies of the website that shall not be named.
I check !communitypromo@lemmy.ca from time to time.
I find them to be very nice, generally speaking, with the occasional notable exception.
Piefed has collection of categories. Its fun to subscribe to them and communities that are interesting.
Mbin has a browsable / searchable list of magazines, but I’m not sure how to get to it from Lemmy.
Same. I feel that a central feed of communities which acts as a main point of discovery would be ideal
Disturbing, but entertaining, and reasonably conversational in either case.
Search for keywords that interest you. And pay attention to links to other communities/posts and subscribe whenever it seems of interest.
