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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

• Asklemmy (ee, world)
• Showerthoughts (ee, world)
• General discussions (ee, world)
• Mildly Infuriating (ee, world)
• You Should Know (ee, world)
• No Stupid Questions (ee, world)
• Mildly Interesting (ee, world)
• Memes (ee, world)
• Lemmy Shitpost (ee, world)
• Videos (ee, world)

News/Politics

• World News (ee, world)
• Politics (ee,world)

Pets and such

• Aww (ee, world)
• Cats (ee, world)

Gaming

• Games (ee,world)
• RetroGaming (ee, world)
• Nintendo (ee, world)

TV and Music

• Movies and TV Shows (ee, world)
• Anime (ee, world)
• Music (ee, world)

Pics and Art

• Pics (ee, world)
• Digital Art (ee, world)
• Mobile Wallpaper (ee, world)
• Wallpapers (ee, world)

Technology and Science

• Technology (ee, world)
• Science (ee, world)
• Fediverse (ee, world)
• Android (ee, world)
• Hardware (ee, world)
• Privacy Guides (ee, world)

Sports

• Football/Soccer (ee, world)
• NBA (ee, world)
• NFL (ee, world)

Others

• FoodPorn (ee, world)
• 3DPrinting (ee, world)
• Gardening (ee, world)

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.

Do you like synthesizers? My synthesizer community is mostly me talking to myself about them. !synthesizers@lemm.ee

I'd use Lemmy Explorer to find communities that interest you. The link I just shared is sorted by subscriber count, so it should show the most active communities at the top.

I think that hobby communities here can all benefit from having more members. If you have interest in starting out in any of these communities I am always around, and I know there is a small but dedicated base here.

!battletech@lemmy.world

!warhammer40k@lemmy.world

!oldhammer@lemmy.world

!tabletopminis@lemmy.world

The Star Wars community is a place I have a personal interest in making somewhere positive to talk about the parts of Star Wars people really enjoy. I’m happy to see that it has started to take off more over time.

!star_wars@lemmy.world

Communities about history and oddities are also places where kids and core members have really done a lot to make the community a place with a foundation.

!forgottenweapons@lemmy.world

!historyporn@lemmy.world

If you want something to laugh at, check out the following.

General

• Antique Memes Roadshow
• Awful Taste But Great Execution
• Birds With Arms
• Funny Animals
• Humor
• Loading Artist comics
• Sci-Fi Memes
• South Park Memes
• funny signs
• 4chan

Text Based

• Jokes
• One Liners

Video Based

• Stand Up Comedy
• Contagious Laughter

Movie and TV Show

• Comedy + genre (Fantasy, Horror, and Science-fiction)
• moviescirclejerk

It's honestly still small enough that anything with a few upvotes shows will appear in the main feed. I've just scrolled through and followed as I saw things I'm interested in, and blocked things I don't ever want to see.

As someone who mostly left behind a 13 y/o reddit account with a ton karma when the api nonsense happened, the fuck is reddit premium?

I made the switch a few days ago too and I’m already loving it. The people saying sort by all and subscribe/block as needed are on the money, really easy to curate a selection of good stuff. Content and engagement is more organic here it seems.

I’m about to delete the rest of my social media and jump on mastodon/pixelfed/peer tube etc. good luck and welcome to the federation!

Honestly, the communities right now are so small I can't really recommend them. I just browse all.

I miss reddit because you could have an extremely niche community with 10,000 people contributing. It's hard to get 10 people going here.

Lemmy is very small in comparison, although every time reddit manages to do another silly thing Lemmy grows leaps and bounds. It's a slow investment in a better internet, and it's going to take a long time to slowly show the world that corporations don't have to control everything on the internet.

That being said I'm partial to !cranetrainexcavators@lemmy.world , it's rockin' (...and climbin', and glidin')

lemmyverse.net is also a great tool to find communities and instances

Just wanted to thank everyone recommending communities to subscribe to. I thought I had a good mixture already. Discovered a dozen new ones just based on the comments here!

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!

1. Sort by new
2. Subscribe to stuff

Welcome fellow ex-pat

What subs did you like and maybe we can help find substitutions.

One thing to note is that anything you do on the fediverse is visible in the activitypub so be mindful of that if there’s aspects of your online identity you want to keep private.

Not that it’s less secure than putting everything on Reddit but what you “like”/“upvote” and dislike/downvote show in the activity log even if your client/site doesn’t necessarily show it.

For me it’s no big deal but thought I’d just add the caveat.

So what kind of stuff do you like/looking for?

If you like star trek you’re in luck as there’s

!tenforward@lemmy.world

!risa@startrek.website

!startrek@startrek.website

I like 3d printing so there’s

!functionalprint@kbin.social

!3dprinting@lemmy.world

I just want to say that creating a precedent of not allowing AI models to train on free content essentially means that when the models get cheap enough for average joes to train their own, average joes won’t be able to.

We’ll have to use the models owned by huge corporations with deep pockets, because those will be the only legal ones.

Can we get a bit more info on your likes and interests? What subreddits did you subscribe to? I'm happy to recommend some but since I enjoy things like !metalmemes@lemmy.world that have dependencies such as being a metal fan, knowing a bit more about what you're looking for will help.

But regardless, welcome aboard and I hope you like Star Trek and Linux references!

To be honest, I doubt that any kind of wiping posts from reddit at this stage will help with this AI deal, before the deal was made, Reddit probably took a snapshot of the database, and is selling that.

Why would they risk user's sabotaging their big payday? Also, doing it this way makes it much easier to quantify the data they are selling since they are working with a static database dump and not a live database that keeps changing.

!newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

!trendingcommunities@feddit.nl

!newcommunities@lemmy.world

!communitypromo@lemmy.ca

Welcome!

See this post on !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca for a guide how to find communities / resources that help

https://lemmy.ca/post/11285664

I recommend subscribing to more things that you might have on Reddit, and hunting around on the pages linked above for stuff related to your interests

Your posts are public. Your lemmy data can be pulled to train AI too.

You could look for foreign communities who speak different languages and practice speaking to them through Lemmy if you wanted to.

For the longest time, I’ve pursued languages and was just posting on foreign-language communities because I like to learn them and I seek contact with foreigners just to practice my languages.

Mostly I posted in Spanish and German having learned some of those languages growing up and more recently when I took up learning on Busuu.

Where I live, Spanish is a more common foreign language because of our Hispanic population and my family too. I also used a DNA kit that showed me what heritage I had (Mostly English and German but I inherited some Mexican from my mother’s great grandmother from when I was little. So that’s also why I pursue languages.

I also pursue them as sort of a hobby of mine.

This is just an idea I had in mind from my recent activity here on Lemmy. I’m actually on lemmus.org and moved from lemm.ee but I seek contact with some foreigners for my languages.

Maybe join lemm.ee or lemmus.org if not that?

Fediverse postings are probably also being used for AI training. Just so you won't be too shocked when it eventually comes out in the future.