• OhmsLawn@lemmy.world
        13·
        4 months ago

        My intended point is that browsing all is a viable way to find communities. You won’t miss many communities if you browse everything. Then subscribe to what you like, block what you really dislike.

        You’re right that all can be overwhelming and distasteful, but at least it really is everything, as opposed to the r/all, which was heavily filtered.

        • PatMustard@feddit.ukEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          I don’t think it’s just federation, I believe for posts to appear in your instance’s All feed then at least someone on that instance needs to be subscribed to the associated community

    • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      It might end up showing all the communities but it won’t show you every post. Like F1 posts rarely end up in all despite having an active community. You’re more likely to see posts from formuladank than formula 1.

      • everett@lemmy.ml
        5·
        4 months ago

        Browse /all, sort by new, you’ll see every post your Lemmy instance is aware of.

  • EnderMB@lemmy.world
    20·
    4 months ago

    Sadly, Lemmy is too small to have many active niche communities of its own, so as already said your best bet is just viewing all.

    Alongside this, viewing specific instances can give you a slightly more curated experience than just all of Lemmy.

  • Land_Strider@lemmy.world
    14·
    4 months ago

    Most niche communities from R*ddit are pretty much dead here unless you are looking forward to being a regular poster yourself. This rather requires sticking to the lemmy.world open feed rather than creating a custom feed with your communities only, if you are looking to scroll a lot instead, of course. Just stick around a bit, see how often what communities and people reach the general feed, elect to block the ones that feel flooding your feed or not to your taste. Maybe give some regularly-posted communities that are previously not in your area of interest some chance before going on a mass block. This place does have a quality and rather genuine people, but in a limited scope.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      Honestly, my “all” view is fine. There were a few bots I blocked months ago that just auto reposted everything from Reddit which led to a lot of spam but other than that it’s been fine! Then again I did this back on Reddit too.

      • Land_Strider@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        I had been using Reddit with my custom feed right from the very beginning. It was pretty good, I got more community recommendations from friends and people in the communities I had subscribed to, and I even started dropping some communities I no longer had much interest in, so my feed was pretty dynamic with popular and niche stuff alike.

        I still miss my custom feed and having content in some niche communities, but it has been more than 6 months since my preferred 3rd party app has been deployed for Lemmy and I have been completely scrolling and commenting on Lemmy only, still. Never scrolled on Reddit since July 1, never succumbed to desktop-only alternatives like old.reddit, although it is still my default with RES settings applied if I’m to click on Reddit links for info, since the platform was going to be at its shittiest moments from then on, not just the interface.

        Primary news communities are good enough to not avoid them like the plague they were in Reddit, riddled with propaganda bots. Big, general meme communities are the same, without many daily reposts in the same community. Movies/series fan communities are very much lacking, except a couple big fan communities. Tbh I prefer Star Trek communities here over any series/movies fan communities anywhere else, although I haven’t watched even one episode of Star Trek so far in my life. Game communities are almost completely dead, but I have started getting my game updates from Steam “Home” screen blog feeds on the library. Big, all gaming and new gaming announcement related communities here are the same as they were in Reddit if I want digital entertainment poisoning anyway.

        Overall, fewer content flood of Lemmy with also almost non-existent bot or discussion-disabled loud mouth count feels like a way healthier engagement procedure on this kind of a platform. Writing paragraphs-long comments never felt like a drop in the sea they were on Reddit, even if these comments get only a handful upvotes/downvotes here and maybe a couple replies at best.

  • other_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    4 months ago

    When I moved over I searched for versions of all my reddit communities. Sadly, a lot of them are inactive, but I subbed anyway just in case. Then I went onto all and looked for the top handful that had stuff I liked. Now I mostly stick to my subscribed and flip over to all if I run out.

  • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
    12·
    4 months ago

    Welcome! There’s a lot of actually good content on here if you avoid Hexbear and lemmy.ml.

    I go back and anonymously browse Reddit sometimes and it feels plastic.

    • Urist@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      Conversely, if you want less cheap comments like this one you should not.

    • S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      4 months ago

      Feels plastic cause it’s full of bots. I seriously hope the niche communities don’t get chocked to death with bots. But I also see that many went to discord… which I’m not sure if it’s an improvement TBH.

      • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
        3·
        4 months ago

        Yeah, I saw someone on Lemmy showing screenshots two posts that were copied exactly from like 8 months ago except for a single new legitimate comment. It’s wild what LLMs are doing to online interaction and honestly… this is just the beginning.

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
      2·
      4 months ago

      If you want to avoid specific instances, it’s best to go to an instance that defederates from those instances. That’s the power of the Fediverse - you get to choose an instance that aligns with your values and moderation style :)

      • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
        1·
        4 months ago

        Avoiding them myself is great, but long term I’d love do see the Fediverse succeed. We need to shut down propaganda if we want it to be viable. There’s no corporation or organization running the show, it’s us.

        • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
          3·
          4 months ago

          The way to shut down propaganda is defederation and diligent moderation. That takes some actions from admins and moderators, who as you note are mostly volunteers. So do your best to support your local mods and admins in doing that or volunteer yourself :)

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    4 months ago

    Welcome!

    I don’t have specific recommendations on hand because I’m on mobile, but you can look through this guide from !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca for other ways to discover communities

    https://lemmy.ca/post/11285664

    Following the promo communities works great so you can passively learn about new things when they get promoted