I’m tryna get my friend off Reddit and to join the Lemmy dark side. He seems cooperative so far. What communities should I recommend to him?
I’ve found this a good tool for searching communities: https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Rather than try out other people’s preferences, browse all / new, invest a little time learning how to block instances, communities and users and in no time you’ll be browsing content you want to see. Not what any of us want you to see.
What I did was search for similar communities/subreddits I followed on Reddit. After that, went through “communities” and subbed to any that looked interesting.
We need people to take the best/smart stuff from reddit and discuss it here with sources that aren’t enshitified.
Once people see the same or better content here, you’ve planted them here.
This site is like reddit 1.0 when the front-page had BSD/Linux discussions. Hopefully the enshitification of social media continues.
It took Digg slipping once to enrich reddit.
i like to browse “all”, i just ignore any communities i dont care about so they dont clog it. Ignoring stuff you dont like is also quite crucial, since YOU are the algorithm here.
Sort by new occasionally, that way you might come by interesting little communities that would get buried otherwise. I also just subscribed to bunch of communities from communities tab, just based on the name.
This is exactly what I do and then I use communities that I see popping up regularly or that look interesting for my homepage. If I’m just scrolling cuz I’m bored I’m on all. If I don’t have much time I just have the home feed
Still figuring this out , but don’t hype it cause there’s less activity. To me it’s mostly comment quality here
I guess it depends on their interests.
I remember him looking for some news communities. He says he also likes some “super niche, esoteric memes” or something like that
Funhole
What are his interests? I can make a few suggestions based on them. There is a search bar where he can filter for communities containing keywords he looks for. I also suggest browsing by All, subscribing to communities that interest him, and blocking the communities and users (sometimes it’s a handful of users sharing unwanted content around multiple communities) he doesn’t want to see.
This place doesn’t work like reddit. I mean, it’s supposed to, but the communities are too small. Everyone basically reads the “All” feed and uses the communities as hashtags essentially.
There are some larger communities, but this place kind of sucks
