It’s not so much the communities as the number of posts, I open Lemmy and see posts I saw yesterday only half way down the front page.
yeah, that’s something that is getting slightly better over time if you sub to more instances outside.
Can you please elaborate what you mean by this? Like register at sh.itjust.works, lemmy.world, etc?
Not really, just subscribe to communities outside of your instance.
Like !osvaldo12@lemmy.fancywhale.ca. just subscribing to this from another instance and getting updates on your account regardless where it’s from. Sorry if you already knew that.
You only need one home instance. So you’re on lemmy.world from what I can tell. If you go to their homepage and login, then click communities at the top, you can browse all the communities (subreddits). Just subscribe to whatever you want! Then later when you’re browsing you can sort by subscribed and it’ll be just those topics
Even beyond subscribing to other communities that are also on a Lemmy instance, you can throw a wider net and use some form of fediverse software to interact with different kinds of instances.
I think Lemmy software may be a little more limited in this, as I haven’t had much luck subscribing to Mastodon users on my Lemmy accounts, but I can subscribe to Lemmy communities on Mastodon and Calckey. I haven’t really done much with it on Mastodon, but on Calckey I can see Lemmy posts from communities I’m subscribed to in my feed, and I can make a top-level reply to the post but I can’t read or reply to the comments (unless they’re replies to mine) without going to some version of Lemmy to view the rest of the post.
Still, that makes it pretty convenient to scroll through my own Calckey as well as Lemmy, Mastodon, Kbin, Pixelfed, and seemingly basically whatever else I could want. Sure, sometimes I have to switch sites to engage with the content, but that’s as simple as clicking a link or at worst navigating to the post again on the site. With the pace of most instances, that’s not hard to do
It’s also not oversaturated, so people will actually see and interact with what you’re posting, and yet if you cast a wide enough net you can get continuous content to read if you really want to.
I guess the point is, the more you take it into your own hands the more it can do for you.
No need to register. You can just subscribe to their communities with your current account. That’s part of what makes federation so handy. I’m on Reddthat.com but you can see this comment even though you’re on lemmy.world.
You can find Communities from instances all over the Lemmyverse at https://browse.feddit.de
Another good one is https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Communities for specific video games, like /r/wow or /r/ffxiv
Yep. R/Noita went private and moved to the discord I was already in, but Discord is a terrible replacement for Reddit. I don’t have time to read everything in the community to find anything in the community… So now I only have the comment section in FuryForged to find new discoveries in one of the most ridiculously complicated physics simulators I play.
It’s an obscure enough community that I doubt it will reopen there, and I’d lose some respect for it if it reopened before Reddit actually listened to a single word we said.
Avid Guild wars 2 player here, I really do miss being on that subreddit. Since reddit was also big, it did allow developers to interact with their players a bit more directly and was a good way to get official info to them.
In this specific case I added browsing the game forums instead of going on reddit, not much has changed except the lessened amount of ads on my screen lol.
I miss the local subs for my city and other local communities around me. They were great for keeping up with what was going on. I can’t stand all the pissing and moaning on Nextdoor. There are a couple of Facebook groups but I refuse to install any Meta apps on my phone.
Right now I am missing the hyper specific cat subreddits like catswhoyell and catsinbusinessattire. There are so many that I loved to revisit every 2-3 months and see what was there
I stumbled upon this one
This is definitely one of my favourites. I feel like I have moved to Instagram for my cat fix for now.
!oneorangebraincell@lemmy.world
Only one I found so far but there is hope
For me it’s just the smaller gaming ones that aren’t as active or not here, I enjoyed browsing through specific WoW (this isn’t so active), ESO or Diablo subs.
My home page is already in fairly nice shape with “general” interests
