I'm here from reddit, and thank you for these recommendations. Time for my neuroplasticity to kick in so I can learn how all this works.
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Also here from Reddit. Lemmy actually feels like how Reddit *used *to feel in its early years, i.e. fresh community with fresh ideas. Love it!
Just wanted to say, thanks for hosting this instance! I'm a reddit refuge and this Lemmy instance has been really straightforward on how to get started.
Avoid beehaw
What don't you like about it? I find Beehaw pretty great. The only thing I could think of is that they've defederated some of the larger instances, but it's understandable given their content philosophy and the current state of moderation tools on Lemmy (really terrible).
Why?
They've defederated over 400 instances including lemmy.world, they want centralization
Good to know, thanks.
🪴 Plants
- Houseplants !houseplants@mander.xyz
- What's this Plant? !plantid@mander.xyz
🏺 Archaeology & Related
- Archaeology !archaeology@mander.xyz
- Anthropology !anthropology@mander.xyz
- Folklore, Myths, Legends, & Fairy Tales !folklore@mander.xyz
🌎 Geography
- Geography !geography@mander.xyz
- Biodiversity !biodiversity@mander.xyz
- Earth Science/Geosciences !earthscience@mander.xyz
- Geospatial !geospatial@mander.xyz
- Historic(al) Map Porn !old_maps@mander.xyz
- Palaeoecology !palaeoecology@mander.xyz
🔬 Science
- Science Communication !scicomm@mander.xyz
Ya'll gonna have to nerd out with me now. 😎
I was going down the universal search tool list, subscribing to the communities that I was interested in, and I ran into an issue trying to sub to some of the communities. Thankfully I was able to quickly find the answer - anything that is on the block list under https://lemmy.one/instances you are not able to subscribe to from this instance.
Glad to see that Lemmygrad is on the blocklist.
Is there a community for soccer?
Found a few very small communities with just a few posts from the universal search tool, when I search for these (they are on other instances) I can't find them. They are not on a blocked instance (both are on lemmy.ml), am I doing something wrong or is there some limit in size of community that are reachable through federation? Thanks, am very new to how the federation works in both Lemmy and Mastodon.
Click the copy icon to the right of the community name on the search tool, then go to https://lemmy.one/search and paste in the URL it copied, and the community should show up. If it doesn't immediately show up: wait 30 seconds, refresh the search page, and try again, and then it will work.
This process needs to be easier, somehow. New users are going to search, see it doesn't show up, assume everything is broken, and leave.
Thanks, this worked. I was searching "community@instance.tld" but they showed right up when I used full URL copied from the search tool.
That should work too, but maybe you need an ! at the beginning, like [!community@instance.tld](/c/community@instance.tld)
Thanks you, subbed to a lot of them. The more content and more posts, the better. :)
Theres some sciencey ones on Mander.xyz :
Mander has a list that is really long of many different disiplines so I just grabbed the ones that I thought would of intrest
A version of r/nostupidquestions: !nostupidquestions@mander.xyz
Hi! Does anyone know any good communities about the following topics:
-longboarding
-possum pictures and/or possum memes
I think the reddit hug of love is affecting things today on the 12th.
Just a general question, on a mobile device is using your browser or an app the better experience? And if using an app is Jaebra the one most people use?
I prefer the browser to apps personally, this is actually one of the main reasons I like Lemmy over Reddit and it's unusable mobile view. You'll find plenty of mobile app users here too and it sounds like it works fine, I'll just caution that some (all?) of them sound like they're feature-incomplete, so if you ever think something is missing from Lemmy, double-check on the website first, because it might just not be added to the app yet.
Time to wait for the cat ones
How can I create some for lemmy.one?
See a post regarding community creation on the instance lemmy.one. For example, on lemmy.ml, you have a button at the top of the page beside Create Post to create communities. That is not the case as of now for lemmy.one.
I appreciate you taking the time to share! I’ve only messed with Mastodon briefly and the fediverse is a little challenging to navigate at first (in my opinion).
I’ve been a lurker on the subreddit for ages and when I saw your post I decided it was time to check Lemmy out. Thanks for taking the time to set up an instance to keeps the community alive as Reddit implodes. Hopefully this works out or at least can act as a temporary home until we can figure out what is next.
yes, very much appreciated!
!genderqueer@lemmy.one
We're open for all!~
Does anyone know of any communities for pigeons or capybaras (or tbh any other weird-but-cute critters)?
Edit: adding some as I find them:
Does anyone know if you can hide posts in Jerboa? This post and a lemmy.one welcome post are pinned at the top of my feeds, and they take up a lot of room visually. I'd also like to hide posts I've already seen, as on smaller communities I only want to see the occasional new posts, not see the same post from 3 days ago every time.
I can't see some lemmy.ml communities like "sports" or "Star citizen"
You can’t see them if nobody here has subscribed to them yet, but if you paste the URL for those communities in https://lemmy.one/search, they’ll show up.
If anyone else is missing Breaddit as much as I, [!bread] (!bread@lemmy.ml) (I think, bear with me as it's my first time trying to link to a community) seems like a good place to start.
Is this link better? https://lemmy.ml/c/bread
If you link it like this: Bread
it will be load that community on the user's own instance, so they can just hit subscribe instead of having to search for it back on their own instance.
[Bread](/c/bread@lemmy.ml)
@jonah - would you be willing to link mander.xyz to our community? They have a lot of science-based subs that look interesting. Thanks
There should be no problem joining their communities, just paste the URL for any of them into the box on https://lemmy.one/search
Are there any UK-specific communities?
Did you find !unitedkingdom@lemmy.ml?
Oh great! Oh wait, it's r/UnitedKingdom not r/CasualUK... I'll pass, thanks
Some should soo make CasualUK
Seems we've now got ukcasual on lemmy.world! (I've not worked how to link to communities yet!)
There's a UK-specific instance: lemmy.org.uk
So far the only community looks to be !general@lemmy.org.uk but I expect there'll be more soon.
What am I missing? I have subscribed to a few lemmy.ml communities here, but despite seeing https://lemmy.ml/c/overwatch2 as an extant community, trying to subscribe to !overwatch2@lemmy.ml returns errors/not found on lemmy.one's side. Is this community blocked here?
lemmy.ml has a lot of federation issues unfortunately (uptime issues in general, actually). There’s not much that can be done until their server is fixed, and yes I agree it’s very annoying, but they’re working on it 👍