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?
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
Pets and such
Gaming
TV and Music
Pics and Art
Technology and Science
- Technology (ee, world)
- Science (ee, world)
- Fediverse (ee, world)
- Android (ee, world)
- Hardware (ee, world)
- Privacy Guides (ee, world)
Sports
Others
Oh, by the way: If you’re a fan of the classic “Old.reddit.com” look, the Programming.Dev instance has an identical interface: https://old.programming.dev/?sort=Hot&listingType=All .
It’s federated with Lemmy.World so all the same posts will appear. I’m partial to that on Desktop browser, and stick with https://p.lemmy.world for mobile.
It works on .world as well!
Yeah both lemmy.world and us have the same alternate frontends at the same subdomains (apart from voyager in which they went for m for mobile and we did v for voyager)
Links for all four of them
- Photon (p.) - world | programming.dev
- Alexandrite (a.) - world | programming.dev
- Voyager (m. and v.) world | programming.dev
- Mlmym (old.) world | programming.dev
These front ends already added a lot of value for me than Reddit when using the desktop site.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
lmao
What a saint!
Thanks for this! I’ve been here since the 3rd party app shutdown and this is great!
Also a little plug for [email protected] which is our WhitePeopleTwitter replacement.
@AGD4 great list!
@mesamunefire once you get your head around how to use urls from your instance, another useful directory is the Kbin Collections - like multireddits.
These are basically multis that Kbin users curated and made public so that others from kbin can subscribe to them, but since it lists all the communities you can manually add what you want in your lemmy.world account.
I would actually recommend [email protected] instead. The admins of lemmy.ml are weirdly hostile towards anime, but ani.social is an anime-specific instance.
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.
Hopefully reddit will keep fucking up and lemmy will grow. I really like it here with no ads but miss feeding my niche interests on the reddit subs. Most have subs here but they are just empty.
Be the change!
Are you suggesting a Multiplicty type scenario?
Like…making a bunch of clones of yourself to date Andie MacDowell??
If you can, I guess…I just meant, post a lot. But the clone thing is cool too
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!
Same.
Not just is there a lack of content here, but the echo chamber effect is so much worse here than it was on Reddit.
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.
Thanks for sharing my website! I’m glad people find it useful 😁
Thanks for creating it!
^This is the way.
It also auto searches “trees” FYI
That’s kinda hilarious. I was looking for cannabis related communities too. Believe it or not, I haven’t had any cannabis today, either. 😄
Haha, that’s cause the url he copied included his search 😂 https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=trees&order=subscribers
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 [email protected] , it’s rockin’ (…and climbin’, and glidin’)
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.
The historical snapshot is not worth that much because it is already available for free, there are torrents etc. The deal is iirc an ongoing payment for access, which will be relevant because AI trained on old data is always going to be stuck in the past.
Ah, I missed it was an ongoing payment, I thought it was a single payment for a db export, then it makes sense to erase comments
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?
You’ve never heard of Reddit Premium in 13 years? It’s the paid account that got rid of the ads and used to give you a few hundred coins per month. It was like $60/year.
I thought reddit gold was the paid account. I haven’t heard of these coins either.
Gold was the standard award up until those in charge saw that they could get more money from people by creating other awards. Coins were the virtual currency used to buy the awards.
And what is this AI news ?
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
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.
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.
I started an alt account on here for the porn subs and went to a porn specific instance, and my god, that was a lot of blocking, almost not worth the effort compared to what I have on my Reddit porn account.
My biggest peeve is people who start many dozens of porn starlet comms with a handful of posts, or celebrity stalking comms with a handful of posts, or the myriad US sports teams fed by some bot.
I wish there was a way to just block whole categories of comms, now I’ve had to resort to blocking the user starting them, which seems like overkill.
My biggest pet peeve is when an up and coming thot takes one pic and spams it everywhere.
I end up blocking a ton of content creators as a result of that. I don’t need to see your same exact pic in 20 different communities.
My biggest pet peeve is that i don’t know what a pet peeve is.
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?
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.
I’m new here. I never realized how much I’ve always hated the entire concept of an algorithm until now. This is amazing.
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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.
Lemmy supports instance blocking as of version 0.19. Some clients also support instance blocking for pre-0.19 instances.
To add to this, block users too. The community is so small here that you start to recognise names of annoying people and trolls. I’m all for a robust discussion, but if I know someone is always going to argue in bad faith or they’re literally here just to stir shit, it’s just easier to block them. Didn’t really work with Reddit, but here it’s got a decent impact.
I’ve blocked so many users who ONLY post negative news stories. And porn.
I use different sites for those, tyvm.
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Like I said, it’s repeat offenders that I block. I’m not blocking everyone I disagree with our anything like that. There’s some edgelord Reddit behaviour occasionally and I’d prefer that stayed back there.
Just to piggy back you can also block entire instances, which becomes more useful when using discovery sorts like scaled. Like if the entire instance is in a language you don’t speak, block that shit!
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 [email protected] 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!
Just browse all and take the time to block every community you don’t like the content of
Yeah, so much furry porn and hentai it’s not funny
- Sort by new
- Subscribe to stuff
- Block stuff you don’t want to see. I block porn, sports & country specific ones that I do not speak the language.
I prefer to sort by either hot or active, then I sort by New once I’ve run through everything. But you do you.
Agree, I start my day on active, but once I’ve seen all those I do top six hours, then new.
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.
I’ve made peace with everything I post publicly online getting slurped up in training data.
But at least on Lemmy someone isn’t claiming it’s theirs and making millions off of it while simultaneously selling our time and attention to advertisers.
everything I post publicly online
I realize this will probably be a VERY unpopular take, but if you’re speaking publicly, there’s nothing for you to “make peace with.” If you’re speaking in public, you are literally donating whatever you’re saying to whoever is reading or listening to it.
If you don’t like that idea, then you shouldn’t speak in public. That is your option.
And no, there is no good recourse, to try and prevent people from using public conversations, for purposes that someone might not like. Because every way you could try to control that usage sets a HORRIBLE precedent.
Just one example: if you could stop public conversations from being examined for AI training purposes, you could also say “oh, by the way, nobody can use public conversations on either side of a legal case.” So then someone either gets away with major crimes, despite evidence just lying around out there, or someone else gets thrown in jail for something they didn’t do, because evidence that could have exonerated them is inadmissible, because we can’t use people’s public conversations for anything.
Be mad at AI, if you want. Hate it all you want. Be as doom-and-gloom, sky-is-falling, etc all you want. But public speech is still public, and there are very good reasons for you losing control of it, as soon as you voluntarily speak it.
No no, well said. I agree completely. What’s important is that this affirms the public domain, rather than (like Reddit’s behavior) denies the public domain.
Sure, but it hits different when there is a company of ill-repute specifically profiting off of your data acting as the broker.
I am making the insane people Facebook one really fun these days.
It depends on how much content you’re looking for. You can’t get the “infinite scroll” like you could on reddit, the user base just isn’t there. The closest you can get is browsing all, but it’s still limited. Search for communities based on your interests and then follow the communities that seem most active, as there will likely be duplicates. I left reddit last year when they killed the apps. I will say two things about my transition to lemmy: One, the content I do get is more tailored and specific. Two, I spend less time attached to my phone because new content isn’t pouring in by the second. I view these as positives.
