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?
I check !communitypromo@lemmy.ca from time to time.
Personally I sort by all and block what I don’t like and subscribe to what I do.
Same. I feel that a central feed of communities which acts as a main point of discovery would be ideal
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.
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 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:
These are some communities to find new communities:
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.
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 a 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 leanred 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)
Mbin has a browsable / searchable list of magazines, but I’m not sure how to get to it from Lemmy.
