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?

  • AGD4@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 months ago

    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

    News/Politics

    Pets and such

    Gaming

    TV and Music

    Pics and Art

    Technology and Science

    Sports

    Others

  • Swordgeek@lemmy.ca
    1·
    9 months ago

    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!

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
    0·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee
      0·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • TheFriar@lemm.ee
        0·
        9 months ago

        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?

        • Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          0·
          9 months ago

          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.

          • Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works
            11·
            9 months ago

            Lemmy supports instance blocking as of version 0.19. Some clients also support instance blocking for pre-0.19 instances.

        • Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works
          01·
          9 months ago

          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.

  • 𝐘Ⓞz҉@lemmy.world
    0·
    9 months ago

    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

  • doublejay1999@lemmy.world
    01·
    9 months ago

    I use lemmy like twitter, like reddit 15 years ago : I view everything, then block communities I’m not interested in.

    Lemmy is still small enough to that without too much garbage- especially if you like a broad range of content,

    The only chore was blocking tons of anime