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?
Honestly, the communities right now are so small I can’t really recommend them. I just browse all.
I miss reddit because you could have an extremely niche community with 10,000 people contributing. It’s hard to get 10 people going here.
Hopefully reddit will keep fucking up and lemmy will grow. I really like it here with no ads but miss feeding my niche interests on the reddit subs. Most have subs here but they are just empty.
Be the change!
Are you suggesting a Multiplicty type scenario?
Like…making a bunch of clones of yourself to date Andie MacDowell??
If you can, I guess…I just meant, post a lot. But the clone thing is cool too
I was on reddit since 2006, and left a year ago.
Lemmy pretty much sucks because of a lack of content. The communities are there, but they’re…sooooo quiet.
Join the communities you’re interested in and ENGAGE!
Just browse all and take the time to block every community you don’t like the content of
Yeah, so much furry porn and hentai it’s not funny
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.
Thanks for sharing my website! I’m glad people find it useful 😁
Thanks for creating it!
It also auto searches “trees” FYI
That’s kinda hilarious. I was looking for cannabis related communities too. Believe it or not, I haven’t had any cannabis today, either. 😄
Haha, that’s cause the url he copied included his search 😂 https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=trees&order=subscribers
I am making the insane people Facebook one really fun these days.
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
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’)
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
I’m kind of new here too, why do all these communities have both a lemmy.ee and lemmy.world version? Is it just that someone happened to set them up on both instances so now there’s two, or is there some kind of crosspost/mirroring going on?
Thanks for this! I’ve been here since the 3rd party app shutdown and this is great!
I would actually recommend !anime@ani.social instead. The admins of lemmy.ml are weirdly hostile towards anime, but ani.social is an anime-specific instance.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !showerthoughts@lemmy.world, !general@lemmy.world, !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world, !youshouldknow@lemmy.world, !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world, !mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world, !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world, !videos@lemmy.world, !world@lemmy.world, !aww@lemmy.world, !cat@lemmy.world, !retrogaming@lemmy.world, !nintendo@lemmy.world, !music@lemmy.world, !pics@lemmy.world, !digitalart@lemmy.world, !mobilewallpaper@lemmy.world, !wallpapers@lemmy.world, !technology@lemmy.world, !science@lemmy.world, !fediverse@lemmy.world, !football@lemmy.world, !nba@lemmy.world, !nfl@lemmy.world, !foodporn@lemmy.world, !3dprinting@lemmy.world
Also a little plug for !microblog_memes@lemmy.world which is our WhitePeopleTwitter replacement.
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.
The historical snapshot is not worth that much because it is already available for free, there are torrents etc. The deal is iirc an ongoing payment for access, which will be relevant because AI trained on old data is always going to be stuck in the past.
!trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
Also the voyager app has a service to find similar communities based on your subreddits
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.
Also, if people think that Lemmy posts won’t be trawled by content farmers looking to train their AI, I’ve got a bridge to sell them.
Reddit’s deal is about locking content away from trawlers until they pay for it. Here, it’s free for all of them. They can even set up their own servers and the fediverse will deliver it to them in real time.
Also, if people think that Lemmy posts won’t be trawled by content farmers looking to train their AI, I’ve got a bridge to sell them.
Yeah that’s the thing, part of the reason why I’m so confused. Reddit can literally just crawl any posts on Lemmy, it’s exactly the same in that sense. Public is public, after all.
Maybe I just haven’t had enough coffee yet, but I’m having a hard time determining which side you’re on. Are you saying it’s good that reddit is doing this?
I see myself as advocating for one set of ideas out of a sea of ideas and an ocean of such sets. Sides are for basketball games.
Generally speaking, I’m a libertarian but to me the word is about liberty not lack of responsibility.
I’ll take:
- UBI
- Free drugs
- Corporations competing with one another to provide basic necessities
- Personhood granted liberally. When it doubt, give it rights
- AI being trained on copyrighted material
- AI or its owner being taken to task when the AI publishes copyrighted material verbatim without attribution
- A free market specifically because freedom allows the little guy to get ahead before the big guy builds the mechanism to keep him down
- Simple government
- Red commits
Do you like synthesizers? My synthesizer community is mostly me talking to myself about them. !synthesizers@lemm.ee
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 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.
I want to stress that you are expected to block communities you’re not interested in.
There’s no content curation between instances (an instance is like a niche mini-reddit, but seamlessly connected to this one), so you will end up with US Politics next to Furry porn, next to Star Trek memes, next to NZ local news, next to sports statistics, next to AI Porn, unless you start blocking.
Upside is you can get great science content, AND local news, AND your favorite porn, AND your brand of shitpost/memes in your feed/subscriptions without any hassle.
So. Much. Furry. Porn.
I e basically gotten to a point where my subscriptions make up such a long list of things I’m even tangentially interested in that I don’t even browse all anymore. I locked so much of the furry porn, but maybe opening all of the communities to block them manually made my feed think I was into it?
Lemmy doesn’t cater the All feed to you like other social media platforms - it doesn’t take into account which posts you open, which posts you upvote, etc.
I’m new here. I never realized how much I’ve always hated the entire concept of an algorithm until now. This is amazing.
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It’s almost all on a couple instances. I don’t remember if lemmy supports instance blocking yet, but several apps do, so it’s a lot easier to block that way.
Lemmy supports instance blocking as of version 0.19. Some clients also support instance blocking for pre-0.19 instances.
To add to this, block users too. The community is so small here that you start to recognise names of annoying people and trolls. I’m all for a robust discussion, but if I know someone is always going to argue in bad faith or they’re literally here just to stir shit, it’s just easier to block them. Didn’t really work with Reddit, but here it’s got a decent impact.
I’ve blocked so many users who ONLY post negative news stories. And porn.
I use different sites for those, tyvm.
Just to piggy back you can also block entire instances, which becomes more useful when using discovery sorts like scaled. Like if the entire instance is in a language you don’t speak, block that shit!