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1y ago

PSA: Let’s fill Kbin/Lemmy with content to attract and KEEP new users

We’re about to enter another Reddit mass migration phase starting tonight. We’ve already attracted the users most actively engaged with the protests and Reddit’s changes—users who are driven enough to put in the effort to grow the Fediverse.

Now we need to make it feel like home to casual users and lurkers. Not just attract them for a few visits, but keep it interesting enough that they stay here in the coming weeks/months.

Major kudos to all the developers working day and night to bring us familiar-feeling apps and interfaces on insanely short timelines. But what can the rest of us do to make Kbin and Lemmy feel like home to all the new Reddit refugees? Populate Lemmy and Kbin with as much quality content as you can find!

Over the next few weeks, fill your magazines/communities with as much good the content as you can. Post comments and subscribe to things. Click that upvote button on content or comments you like.

Not sure where to find good content? Ironically, check out your favorite subreddits for ideas. Make sure we have the best of the content you can find on Reddit. See a good article or link? Post it here! Don’t be shy about posting to interactive communities like Ask Lemmy- we’re after volume.

For OC Reddit posts, see if there’s a non-Reddit page to post here. I don’t know whether it’s acceptable to copy text posts, but if you do, make sure you at least give credit/copy a link to the original post.

Basically, do everything you can to engage over the next few weeks and avoid lurking. Show off the Fediverse and welcome the next group of Reddit refugees to their new home.

Edit: I completely forgot to call out all the people hosting and upgrading instances to help with the massive influx of users and keep the sites stable. Thank you, hosts!

341 comments

Quality content is one thing. Engagement is another. I see lots of new posts that are good, but little to no comments. What we need is a few good communities with lots of engagement. On reddit I was more of a lurker, here I will start to do my best to comment more in the hopes it helps. (Still, my comments will probably be stupid and uninteresting, so it might do more harm than good, lol)
- Yup. Engagement draws people.
  I basically never upvoted on reddit, but I need to change that here.
- Same here! I'm going to try to be more involved but will I add anything of quality? Prob not! 😂
  
  this is relatable, and i felt inclined to comment to agree lol
- I agree. Without engagement, it will lack that sense of community that reddit had.
  
  We'll get there - it's just about chatting when you have something to offer; we get to be the stimuli, the response or both
  Like, for me, I don't start conversations particularly often - but I can certainty riff on topics fed add things along the way once the ball is rolling. That's why I've always been more of a comments section person. Guess I'll have to step out and try posting more!
- Yeah same here, I hardly ever commented on Reddit posts but I feel like for this to work we all need to actively try to engage with the platform

I think I've made more posts/comments in the last fortnight, than the last year on Reddit.
I've been posting interesting articles to nearly half a dozen communities each per day, even if nobody is responding.
I believe it's worth it to have this activity for those who pass by and see how many people showed up to the party before them.
- This is the way
  
  Absolutely, I'm way more actively engaged on Lemmy than I was in the recent past on Reddit. I feel like the community isn't too flooded yet, and conversation can be more easily seen. I'm very excited for the future here.
- Yep, the perception of business and web traffic is what drives actual traffic
- This is my first comment as a reddit refugee ¯⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
  I just made my account today after sync died, and I don't know what else to do so here I am lol
- Thank you. As a recent refugee I like that lemmy can fill a void but it’s going to take community effort to have the engagement and diversity that Reddit did. As a decade long Reddit lurker I’ve decided that my lemmy experience will be better if I upvote the things that contribute, comment instead of just lurking, and rather than expecting to jump into this expecting the traffic and variety of the old place, I and the other refugees have an opportunity to make our little spaces in the fediverse a little brighter and grow with the community. It’s an exciting time after the dread of the deadline began to grow. I’m happy I’m here, and I’m happy you (and everyone) are here! Let’s grow together!

I think a big part of this is making less of the content on Lemmy, be about Lemmy (and reddit).
How many casual users are going to join, see literally half of their front page being about either Lemmy or reddit, and then just leave?
Edit: Building on this - I just joined, and my homepage currently has 3 posts that aren't directly about either Lemmy or reddit.
- Yeah. Sometimes it feels like it's just people patting themselves on the back for not using Reddit, which is completely ok, but I'd also like to see other stuff. Like from subreddit I used to subscribe to.
  
  I get it. It's cathartic, and it's nice to vent about it. It was similar during the digg > Reddit migration and it will naturally end on it's own, but I do hope it doesn't last too long.
- Same problem with Mastodon.
  So many of the most popular posts are self referential - about Mastodon, Twitter or Elon Musk.

Can confirm, migrated because they took away my Apollo! Now I’m using wefwef as my new Apollo
- Thanks for pointing me towards this. Loving wefwef. Works wonderfully!
  
  Is it an iOS app? I can't find it in the Android Google or Samsung store.
- Wefwef is great, very pretty :)
  I come from Android land so I can't compare it to Apollo but it certainly looks very good
- Wow thank you for this, this really is the best app I've tried so far. Love a good webapp.
- Just started using this, and I have to say... wefwef is way better than any of the current apps. By a lot.

Hello, I just migrated from Reddit and am slowly figuring things out. I'm really enjoying Lemmy and the Fediverse so far!
Are there any communities I should subscribe to? If anyone has suggestions please list them out below, thanks!
- I got started with browsing the most popular communities (if you're on a browser, click Communities in the upper left, then pick All under List of communities) and picking the ones that seemed interesting. Then I started searching for ones that mirrored my subreddits and other interests. One thing to note is that Lemmy is growing so fast that you'll often find more than one community about the same topic, so don't be shy about subscribing to somewhat duplicative communities until one comes out on top.
  There are still some subreddits that don't have an equivalent here yet, so I check back for those every few days to see if anyone has gotten around to them (I'm definitely not up for moderating myself)
  As @Nonameuser678@aussie.zone posted, you can also use https://browse.feddit.de/ to quickly search for communities and see their subscriber, post and comment count to gauge how active they are.
  Welcome!
  Edit: I just learned about lemmyverse.net which is an even better website to browse both instances and communities. Check it out!
  
  Thanks for the run down, appreciate the detailed explanation! Great idea about finding mirror communities from Reddit.
  One thing to note is that Lemmy is growing so fast that you'll often find more than one community about the same topic, so don't be shy about subscribing to somewhat duplicative communities until one comes out on top.
  This bring back fond memories of browsing early Reddit lol
  
  Note if you find a community somewhere and you don't see it in your instance that means no one has subscribed to it yet. You'll have to paste the whole url on the search bar and wait maybe 30 seconds.
  
  I have a question. I used the website, found https://lemmy.world/c/texas , but I can't figure out how to subscribe to it in Jerboa.
- https://browse.feddit.de/
  
  This is super helpful, thank you!
  
  Thanks!
- I found this earlier today, I just went through and Re subbed to my favorite sub reddits. https://sub.rehab/
- Heey! It's so awesome to see you here!

I'm a RIF refugee, stuff my content hole ➡️😫
- 🍆

I really hope that the existing Lemmy instances can handle all the new users
- Good point, I completely forgot to call out all the people hosting and upgrading instances to help with the massive influx and keep the sites stable.

I think it's good to encourage those who still have reddit accounts to migrate their content over here in anyway they can before deleting their account entirely. They may have content that they can post that would be beneficial to keep but starve that content from reddit.
It's the strongest weapon you can unleash against that cesspit of a platform. New content is being made here daily and it's amazing, but we have a way to go to compete with such a goliath content farm.
- Damn good idea. I'm a gamedev and posted a hell of a lot of my work on reddit, so I've been hesitant to delete it entirely, because i have an audience, however minor, over there, and a record of progress and contributions to the community. But, as you say, i could just repost it all over here.
- Honestly, I was hoping smarter folks would've figured an easy way to port subs, content etc or make it easier for user to bring their selected content to Lemmy.
  I'm all for rebuilding, but feels like a missed opportunity.
  
  I'm thinking about doing that. There's no reason one couldn't make a web scraper and just scrape some list of subs and run it through a particular mirror instance of lemmy which other instances would be able to federate with. It just seemed like there wouldn't be interest in such an idea

Thank you for everyone's efforts to make the shift from Reddit as smooth as possible. I am normally a lurker/casual Redditor and will likely continue to be so in the Fediverse, but I want to say how much I greatly appreciate how welcoming people have been. I really hope the transition goes as smoothly for original users, and I will do my best to be as minimally invasive as possible.

I don't think I'm understanding. This Lemmy business has been a mess to navigate, I am up to six accounts on Lemmy for different versions. What I am trying to figure out, is why can I sort by 'Top', select 'All' which says it included other communities, but the selection of posts shown with those settings has been different for Kbin, VLemmy, LemmyNSFW, and lemmy.world? If I do this on kbin for example, almost every top post in all is from kbin, same goes for VLemmy, etc etc. Where the heck can I go, and sort by all, to see the top posts of ALL of these Lemmy instances?
- I think it's supposed to be like that. The Fediverse is a decentralized platform.
  Each instance you login to is considered Local but you can subscribe to communities hosted on other instances too. When you sort by All it shows the local instance posts + your subscribed communities' posts.
  
  Oh ok? I feel like that makes this not a Reddit competitor then, there are far too many instances with the same community names run by different people posting different or the same exact content. I kind of get the federated bit but now if I want to find what equates to a gaming subreddit I have to search on an external website to find probably 10+ communities by the same name that I now need to monitor for a few days to see which has the content I'm looking for... that's a LOT of work to do to find a single community as opposed to using reddit where I look up gaming and then join r/gaming.
  
  All should so you everything your server is federated not just your own subscriptions
  
  The process is just inconvenient
- You really don't need 6 accounts, it's probably easier to use 1 for all of Lemmy.
  Anyways, I think there's nothing that can really be done about "All" being different for all instances, at least not right now. On a smaller instance, you'll see a lot more stuff from other instances, and on a bigger instance you'll see a bunch of stuff from that instance, they seem to prefer posts from themselves.
  I don't really know how it works, but that's what I've seen. Honestly, it's not a deal breaker.
  
  i know you can just have one account but what people keep ignoring is that when a post links to another instance, you need to log into it. cross posts work well but if you interact with it, you need to log into their instance.
- Due to the nature of how Lemmy works, it would be rather difficult to make a tool that federates every instance. Also, some instances block others for various reasons. Lemmy works by federating an instance if any interaction with the other instance is made, so if a user on x.com were to read the comments of a post made by y.com (which is already federated with x.com) and upvoted a comment by z.com (which is not federated yet), it will start federating posts from z.com
  Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong

I for one propose more robust ways of finding communities. Maybe if communities adopted a policy of using keywords or hashtags so it can be easier to find all the places where specific topics are being discussed...? I don't know, I'm brand spanking new and trying to find my way; the first thing on my mind is: where am I, where is everything in reference to me, and how do I find out?
- Check out lemmyverse.net - it’s a great tool to browse the communities and instances out there
  
  And don't forget to set your home instance by clicking the house at the top. Then all the links take you to the appropriate page on your instance so you can subscribe!
  
  Is there a way to see this through Connect?
- Same. I try to find alternatives to the subreddits I used to follow, but aside from technology subs, I don't see much of what I remember, even after using the search function in Connect. Not sure how good it is though

Also don't join ban happy instances like beehaw.
- Beehaw is great, actually. Some things should not be tolerated.
  I'm tired of basically every other place on the internet tolerating shitty people because of "freedom of speech" or whatever, poisoning the discussion and making it suck to actually participate.
  It's good to have a place where people actually operate on good faith, and not just to fight like everywhere else because they appeal to the lowest common denominator. Just look at how often reddit was criticized for being toxic. If you just allow everything, that is what will inevitably happen. You have to work to prevent that.
  
  Yeah miss me with the self-righteous, hateful toxicity of pre-2012 Reddit. I left because Reddit made the user experience horrible by shutting down better apps while their own was still abysmal. Idk anything about how ban-happy specific communities are here, but I understand if heavier moderating is needed at the beginning to prevent this place from turning into Voat
  
  Like I said in another post. Reddit active monthly is 1.6 billion . Beehaw have trouble dealing with few thousand users from 2 biggest instances, lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. Lemmy instances needs money, we can get more money by getting more users, which means more money going towards Lemmy and the fediverse. We need to start taking money out of the trillion dollar tech giants and the profits going towards instance owners, mods and devs that make Lemmy great. If beehaw is trying to make a instance to feel safe towards advertisers and give beehaw money, I understand that. However we haven't reach that critical mass yet.
- ¿Por qué no los dos? That's the freedom of the fediverse, freedom of association.
  
  Is there a way to merge accounts so you can see everything in one place without switching? If not, managing multiple accounts is cumbersome.
  
  I know, but in my view if I want the fediverse to become mainstream, we need a way for 1.660 billion monthly active users to feel free and jump straight into the fediverse. Admins will need to find a way to monetize their instance, like ads or fediverse awards. So the instance owner can be not only cover server costs, it's will be their job, get devs on board for FOSS development, grow the community and make the fediverse 1000% better. We need to start small first, that means we need play nicely to each other— so users that come on this board can consume content from other instances about the confusion of defederation.
- Wait what’s happening with Beehaw?
  
  Goodbye Reddit drama, hello Lemmy drama
- They already did. Every user wants their specific admin led circlejerk with no disent. Else you're a nazi. You don't like it? Make your own instance.
  Lemmy is not it, as it stands. Not whil users di y have cross instance user control and don't depend on admins which are a worse version of power hungry Reddit mods with a more fanatical crowd.
  
  Cross-instance control of your identity would be nice but it's easy enough to just make multiple accounts and manage them easily in your browser and every app under the sun. We are much less beholden to power tripping arseholes here than on a platform like Reddit.
  
  You can make your own instance if you can't find out that aligns with your values.

Okay, so I've been here for a few days and I'm getting increasingly confused. I used reddit exclusively on mobile and was hoping to do the same thing for lemmy. But it seems like every app has major features missing. I've already tried 4 different apps and every one is missing a feature I'd consider critical. Keeping two accounts separate, adjusting settings for two different accounts, commenting, replying, posting, subscribing, and searching for specific instances are all pretty important, but every app is missing one or more of these features.
Is there a quickstart guide anywhere to get more familiar with this? Does anyone know of an app that can do all of this? I've already tried jerboa, summit, connect, and liftoff
- Try WefWef.App, it's pretty great, quite reminiscent of Apollo: https://wefwef.app
  
  Does WefWef have a way to block users? This is the critical feature for me. Way too many hateful people spewing disinformation out there, not interested in seeing it.
  
  Is this coming to the Play Store?
- After searching for suggestions by other users I tried Liftoff and it's really decent.
- Unfortunately none of these apps are made by large teams, most actually being largely done by one person so yeah there's features missing because they've never really had cause to sink a ton of time into their development (and a bunch of them are also just new). Only real solution is you just have to wait until they catch up. Also there's the existing Reddit apps migrating over, but those are probably still weeks away. But I can tell you there's a lot of active development going on, it's just that, with the exception of Jerboa which is maintained by the full time Lemmy Devs (who also have to maintain Lemmy itself) and the Reddit 3PAs maybe, we're not really doing this full time and have regular jobs to go to.
  
  Thanks for the info. Hopefully Lemmy will survive these first weeks where the apps aren't up to standard, and start to thrive like Reddit used to
  
  I hope that my comment didn't read as me complaining. I fully understand that this is different from reddit and I'm grateful to every developer working on lemmy in any capacity.
  I just wanted to be sure I tried all of the popular options to find what works best before fully committing to one. Out of the four, liftoff seems to be the best. The main issue it got with it is that both accounts share the same settings. If I change a setting for one account, it changes the settings for the other as well.
- I'm in the same boat. I'm using Lemmy on Jerboa, Wefwef, connect and Lemmy.nz itself. Still haven't found a favourite and run into small issues with all.
  But there are updates almost every day, sync is coming as well, so I just stick around. It's much better than Reddit in all regards.
  
  Try out liftoff, so far I've found it to be much more reliable and logical than Jerboa, I believe it's based on boost for Reddit, but I have no idea; I came from Reddit if Fun
- Try liftoff, as far as I can tell the accounts are kept separate, with the option of having a combined feed (which tells you which instances the post your viewing is being served from) or a separate feed for each instance you're on
  https://imgur.com/a/Rofvlwa
- I don't mean to sound like a dick, but this isn't reddit, it's basically brand new. It hasn't been around for nearly 20 years, and it has had mobile apps for weeks/months, not for over a decade. You gotta be patient, more features,more stability, more ease of use, all of that will come. Reddit didn't even have subreddits for like the first two years or so.
  If it helps, the Sync for Reddit dev, a fairly major player in the 3rd party app scene, is making Sync for Lemmy. They're hoping to get something usable out in 6-8 weeks, and long term goal is to bring it up to and hopefully beyond S for R's standards.
- A few of the developers of Reddit apps like Sync are now working on Lemmy versions. So I guess give it some time and hopefully your preferred app for Reddit will make it's way over or have a clone with all the features you're looking for.
- Honestly there is almost no reason to not just use your web browser instead of an app.
- Cool well... give it a minute, you know? Some of the reddit apps have been in development for YEARS. So you're not going to get to switch and immediately have every single thing you're asking for in an app because the user base was non existent until basically the last two weeks.

Look everybody I'm filling the fediverse with content my content is the best never been content this good before
- Proud of you

I just saw a post about Avatar Ang getting pegged. What more do these people want?

This and:
I am not sure how confident people are in a) switching from Reddit to Lemmy and b) hearing from it in the news or elsewhere, wanting to join the „fastest growing community“ and have no idea about Reddit so far.
It took me (coming from Reddit) about 2h to overview the alternatives, understand the fediverse structure and its jargon, decide between several instances, find and subscribe to similar communities (not only local ones) and finally write my first comment and post.
- I just want to say that you have invested the 2h not only for Lemmy. It took me minutes for this account because I was already familiar with the Fediverse. If you want to switch within the Fediverse in the future, I'm sure it will be easy for you•
- But you're here now, and that whole 'understanding the fediverse' part wasn't strictly necessary to get started. Welcome!
  
  And, all of the apps should be becoming more and more user friendly
- Yo, welcome aboard!
  
  Ty, you too ;-)
- 2hr is what most people spend every night scrolling through reddit anyway.
  
  That 2h on Reddit is super passive though for most people. It's not the same as actively trying to absorb information.
  
  That’s leisure time or casual surfing, not setting something up.

I'll try my best to participate. I've always been more of a lurker on Reddit ( due to some social anxieties ) but I'll try my best to participate. I would love for Lemmy/Kbin to keep the momentum going.

Just signed up yesterday. I had my carefully curated feed from almost ten years and now just trying to find my feet. I've subscribed to 1 community (memes) but do feel kinda lost. I keep hearing about instances and what's allowed and what isn't in each. I'm not sure where to find the stuff I like.
- Someone can probably explain the Fediverse far better than I could. Simple explanation though is that any instance you're on you can see things from others as well.
  If you're looking for new communities to join check out:
  https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities
  !newcommunities@lemmy.world
  Either link will work if you're on lemmy.world. If not, use the https one. Welcome!
  
  I would search on https://lemmyverse.net/communities because it searches all communities on all instances
  
  Shalom!
  
  Is New communities…. New…. ;-)
- I know how you feel. Been trying to find communities that kinda mirror my subreddit selection. I'm pretty sure more are going to come. As far as instances go, don't think too much about for now. Find communities via the search function and subscribe.
- I'll plug "brandnewsentence" here if you don't mind.
  For lemmy.world users: https://lemmy.world/c/brandnewsentence
  For others: !brandnewsentence@lemmy.world
- Are you using any lemmy app right now? I'd recommend trying jerboa, atleast till the sync/boost apps are here in a few weeks. You can try to use the search function to find communities/subreddit.
  You can think of an instance as a new reddit. So for eg, you can host a reddit called caboose and I can host one with my name. You can have your rules on what's allowed on your instance. In addition, we can create a "subreddit" called memes on both our instances. You probably want to join the one with the most users. Assuming the meme community on the caboose instance has more users, I'd just join that. Once it reaches critical mass, that'll become the default memes community on the fediverse! The people on my instance of reddit would just use the memes community on your instance since it's all interlinked.
  To start, I would suggest browsing via all. Joining communities with high user engagement for now. The niche communities will take time to migrate. In addition, when you search for a community, join the one which has the most users.
- Go to the Communities tab, set it to All and then search for topics. You'll likely get a list of relevant communities across the Fediverse. Yes this will likely include several identically named ones like linux@lemmy.world and linux@sh.itjust.works. You might find that there are ten of them, and two with more than a single digit number of subscribers. Probably go with the most popular unless it's somewhere you really don't want to interact with. Occasionally check out your Local (communities only on your instance) and All (communities everywhere on the Fediverse) feeds, and you might find some traffic you're interested in. I don't think we have one of those insidious engagement-powered algorithms yet.

Actually finding an instance with a working signup seems to be a huge issue.. this whole process is..who knows what instance they want?
- I had zero problems with sh.itjust.works sign-up. I got my email verification in seconds! And from what I have read, it doesn't really matter which instance you choose so long as it hasn't been defederated.
  
  But how does one know this instance will exist in a year? This was my hangup on Lemmy, was as I understand it, you lose your account and posts will be pruned if your instance goes down.
  Also I don't want to use an email.
  
  Same just signed up! Shit truly just works.
  
  You could say... shit just works
- Yeah. That's one of the problems with ActivityPub services. You need to know which instance to join, but there's no way to know which one will fit you best.
  
  I made multiple accounts on the different instances. Right now Lemmy.world is down, but this one isn't. Connect for Lemmy (android) has an easy way to switch accounts and instances.

Lemmy needs to come up with some kind of system to keep people from spamming posts. There's no reason scrolling by new should be half filled with 4 accounts spamming posts in the same community or even across multiple communities. Something like a set amount of time between posts or something idfk.
Edit: It also needs to let me view my profile without having to go back to the top of the feed
- That's a fair point, sorting by new is a great way to hunt for good content and help it get traction, but maybe right now it's more effort than it should be.
  Having said this, adding a waiting time before posting again might just as easily prove more inconvenient to legit users than those who spam posts, but I'd support it at least for the time being, as discussion right now is spread over several communities so sorting by new on a single community wouldn't help much most of the times.
  
  The algorithm just needs to be tweaked in a way it's not just true new and instead shuffles between users a bit so it's not just a stream from one person posting a bunch in one go

I am doing my best to avoid lurking. It’s tricky though, I am so used to only commenting on things like once a month. Exhausting work I tell ya.
- I'm actually finding myself more motivated to comment on lemmy because it's less likely to get lost in the churn.
- Yeah it’s kind of amusing. I’ve gotten so used to mindlessly doom scrolling and here it’s like damn can’t just lurk there’s not enough to just lurk over. Lord I have to use that keyboard thingie and form sentences.
- Yea I’m thinking of reposting some of my old posts from Reddit that did well to contribute
  
  Honestly that would be fine. Having that content here would be nice anyhow, we wouldn't have to leave as often.
- Same here, I wanna post but can't get a good idea on what to post..

New to Lemmy (I've deleted my reddit account today). Some questions for the experienced users (I'm still a little overwhelmed with how Lemmy works): Is enough to join one server? there are benefits/cons joining more than one? For each server I join I'll have a different user?
- There’s usually no need to join multiple servers. The only really reason would be if the communities you want to interact with are in instances that aren’t very well federated (ie connected to lots of other instances). Then you may want accounts on the more isolated instances to access that content and an account on a more mainstream instance to give you access to the rest of Lemmy’s content.
  Managing multiple accounts can be tricky, but I’ve heard some of the apps are good at aggregating the content across multiple accounts. I only have one Lemmy account though so I don’t have firsthand experience.
- Your instance is only blocking the weird tankie one, so you dont need to worry about multiple user accounts.
  You can check federated/blocked instances here:
  https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/instances
- Thanks for the clarifications, people! Another note, i was looking for an android app to use access Lemmy on the mobile. The app Litoff was recommended. I agree. It's really nice..
  
  I've started using the app Jerboa on Android, and I'm quite happy with it so far. It is from the same github user Dessalines who created Lemmy. I had to wait until the instance I use updated to version 0.18, though.
  
  I started using wefwef (terrible name though) and it's my favorite ui wise by far. It's a progressive web app so you can save it to the homescreen and it performs even better
  https://wefwef.app/
- Ditto
- I think you would have to have multiple accounts if you wanted to start/moderate communities on multiple instances. I...think?...you're only allowed to start/mod communities on your home instance.

I'm still massively confused on the setup. Just like Mastodon, this Lemmy thing pushes fragmentation and technology and I just cannot wrap my head around it.
I would love to have a site ala reddit. There, that is it. I am not super interested in the techniques behind Lemmy but I must because there are 'servers', 'communities', etc. You can join one server but you might not see (or be able to search) other servers or whatever. The fragmentation is related to this point, I am going to have to hunt for specific 'groups' or 'subreddits' if you will, and hope it is complete because maybe another group, on another server, will have other content related to your interrest. I cannot even begin about posting items myself because I am already lost on that one, no idea what server to post or how it will be able to be seen by users.
So I can describe what I would like, so that other can gauge if Lemmy can meet that need, but the fragmentation and technique tells me I am in the wrong place to have this experience.
What I would like: Frontpage with generic 'groups' or 'communities' and my subscribed 'groups' or 'communities', all on the front page/one page, that scrolls continuously without bothering me with 'techniques' (choosing servers for example). I can certainly appreciate the techniques behind Lemmy (or Mastodon) but in the end I want to create 1 account, pull in some 'subreddits' in my account and when I go to the front page, I get to see all the articles related to the 'groups' or 'subreddits'
In short: can I arrange Lemmy/Vlemmy in such a way that I get the same experience as I had on/with reddit?
I am looking for a replacement, not a challenge tbh. Again, fair play on the efforts of the devs but I want to keep my effort at a minimum on this one, I just consume and read news.
- Soery if I got confused by your question, but isn't it exactly as it already works??? For transparemcy I use the app connect for lemmy in case it has any unique features.
  First of all, resdit had the same problem to a degree, there were similarly named communities + hundreds of communities for the same topi (think about pc gaming or something like that, there wasn't only one subreddit, but one got massively bigger than the others and acted as a default)
  Lemmy is sort of the same, when looking for communities search for volume, the ones with the most active users are probably going to be the "official" ones in a sense. I recommend using https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active&nsfw=null
  And also https://browse.feddit.de/
  To search for communities by members, of course you can sinply type the name on a search bar and the communities/magazines will pop up.
  On regards to the front page, there already is an equivalent to all in reddit where some communities from different instances pop up. Aside from that you have local, where it is a frontpage but only for those communities hosted in your instance. Finally you have subscribed, that is the equivalent of "hot" ok reddit where it shows you ONLY the communities you are subscribed to. All this frontline options are available on the browser as well as the apps, that is why I am confused by your question, is this not what you are looking for? Or am I misunderstanding something.
  Don't doubt to keep asking in case I wasn't clear :)
  
  Forgot to mention, but you aren't supposed to choose a server/instance and stick with it, just use the search function and it will lead you to communities from different servers and sometimes different sites (for example, a beehive community or a kbin magazine instead of something on lemmy) don't worry too much about in which instance something is, just subscribe to the community and it will appear on your frontpage.
- You're over thinking it, all you need is one account, then browse, the other comment before me had some good advice as well, but I just wanted to add for others reading this that while I understand it seems so at first, once you're in and subscribed to a few things you do get your infinite scrolling experience, very easy.
  
  Thanks. Guess I need some time to adapt.

Well, it seems there is a bit of a learning curve. I, and most likely you, still haven't figured out the mechanics of Lemmy and the federverse. Give it time,
Just like Digg before Reddit, we will soon adept. The apps will get better and things will make more sense.
It may look and work slightly different, but with a little work, maybe this will be the communities that thrives the longest..
At least until the ads, bots, and CEOs begin infesting our home again. then I guess we just got to torch it and build a new home.
Now go unpack your favourite content. Lets make this place sing!
Welcome home.
- I'm pretty happy with the nicer community so far. Waiting on a few subs, but now that my reddit app is dead, eh. Pretty happy, feels like 2010 reddit again before new reddit, the eternal September of new users, and people being randomly mean. I'm seeing regulars from 10 years ago on reddit, now on lemmy.
- True, it'll take a few weeks for the apps to catch up and for the community to settle

Getting used to this, but I guess Reddit crossed a line for me lately. (Don't touch my apps!)

I'm gonna shamelessly plug a community I moderate (brandnewsentence):
!brandnewsentence@lemmy.world
For lemmy.world users: https://lemmy.world/c/brandnewsentence

Thank you for your help! I feel so stupid, but I can't figure out how to go to an address that isn't just a normal link in this app (Connect). But I will keep trying and I'll figure it out! It's actually kind of fun and they say it's good for your brain.
- You're right, it's a pretty novel experience to get to learn a whole new social media app/site in the current year

I'm a new recruit as of today. I like it here more already.

Glad to be here! Hoping more communities are made and that our participation doesn’t have to come with commodification.

I'm promoting my apps in here 😅💀😄

I think we should just be ourselves. We will all sort ourselves into groups. No need to impress anyone.
- It's not a question of impressing other users, it's about making sure there's something to read and interact with.
  I always lurked on Reddit because there were so many posts and comments already. Lemmy doesn't have that yet, so I'm trying to help.
  If we all do that, communities will be able to grow organically.
  
  That's a valid point.
  
  Yeah. Most non-major subreddits, which were always the best on Reddit, have yet to migrate over in any form yet
- More content is better. Users who don't find enough interesting content will say Lemmy was not good.

I'm new here and I'll probably stick around. Reddit hit the skids.

I wish someone would move over like the top 20 posts from r/Hobbydrama and create a Lemmy community. I would, but I don't know how to contact the users anymore without my old app.

Is kbin broken for anyone else? I tried to sign up a week or so ago, and my account is registered, but I can't use my password, and I can't recover my password, either. After learning kbin tracks all your upvotes, I think I like it better here on Lemmy anyway, though... That sort of information gathering feels like an advertisers wet dream.
- I heard somewhere that Lemmy does not fully delete posts

Flailing new user trying to figure things out. Is there an AITA around here?
- There sure is! A few actually, but !aita@lemmy.world seems to be the only one with real activity.
  If you're on a browser, you can search for communities with the search button in the top right. Make sure you set the Search dropdown to Communities and the Subscribed/Local/All option to All. The search can take a little time and it's not predictive, so you may need to search a few times to see everything. For instance, I searched for both aita and asshole to see all the AITA communities.
  https://browse.feddit.de/ provides a more user-friendly experience with real-time searching and filters for the different instances in case you don't want to engage with one or it's defederated from your instance. Plus it shows you how many posts and comments each community has so you don't have to click on each one to see how active it is.
  Welcome to Lemmy!
  
  Also check out lemmyverse.net for a comprehensive collection of instances and communities. After you find one you like, copy the link into your home instance search, wait a second or two for the result to appear (or refresh after a sec) and then you can subscribe to new communities.
  
  Check out https://lemmyverse.net/
  If a community doesn't immediately come up in your instances search bar that means no user there has subscribed there yet. You need to search the full url of the community the first time. Ma takex up to thirty secs to appear but then everyone else can find it easily.
  
  Can you explain the different instances, as if I'm a moron? Or direct me to a resource that explains it? If I'm in reddthat.com do I still have access to the whole Lemmy universe? I can't seem to follow the link you gave me and don't understand why ..

And my shitpost!

instance admins, mods and the devs are the true heroes of this place. build it and they ll come. hope quality users join in the long run.

One simple thing people could do is posting links, to videos they find interesting, on one of the video communities, like "videos" on lemmy.world for example.

Warhammer 40k, Oldhammer, Tabletop Minis, and Battletech communities are open for business.

Sounds cool

Yeah, I'm doing it.

Will do! See what I did there?

PSA = Public Service Suggestion?

Well thank you, that is quite helpful and I appreciate the welcome. I'm struggling with the new interface but people here seem very friendly
- If you're used to Apollo, we're working on a Lemmy client with the same UI at https://wefwef.app. Hopefully that'll help you get adjusted
  
  It’s alright to use but murders my battery. I’ve had better luck with the standalone apps available through test flight
- YW. I also find the web interface tough to use. There are a bunch of good iOS apps in beta (Memmy, Mlem, Launch, etc) that you can get using TestFlight on iPhone. I've heard good things about some of the Android apps like Jerboa, but I haven't used them. There's also the web app Wefwef that looks like a good interface.
  If you want to check out the iOS betas, download TestFlight from the app store, then google the app's name + TestFlight , which should take you to the app's Github page with the TestFlight link.
  
  Liftoff is also great and sync for lemmy is coming

Can we do "no meta Mondays"
I think that would help a lot with content creation

I hardly ever commented on Reddit posts but I feel like for this to work we all need to actively try to engage with the platform, so I’ll be trying my best lol

Yeah same here, I hardly ever commented on Reddit posts but I feel like for this to work we all need to actively try to engage with the platform

So do I have to subscribe to what I want to see on my page or is there a dedicated page showing at least the active/good ones.
Half of the time it either devolves into 6 month old posts or AI generated photos and/or porn.
- at the top, you'll see three views: Subscribed, Local, and All. Subscribed is your curated view of communities that you subscribed to, Local is a view of all the posts on your instance, and All is a view of all the posts across the entire network
- I find the Hot view algorithm kind of glitchy - it always seems to jump to 2-3 year old posts after the first few. I prefer the Top views from the past day or week and the New view. You should be able to set your default view in your settings.
  And like salarua said, you can switch between your subscribed communities, local communities (everything on your home instance), and all communities across all instances.

Just ran PowerDeleteSuite on my account RIGHT now. I initially hated lemmy, but got used to the PC ui, and now the apps are really good. Tired of the bootlickers left at the other place, like....how do you defend a shitty 'company' who doesn't give a shit about you? Crazy.
It's like all the awful people are left there stewing in their own juices, good riddance. I literally can not view that place anymore without Apollo so it's as good as gone. Will still browse the odd time on RES via the PC, or a search engine -reddit for something but casual browsing?............he gone!
Gotta be part of the change right?

I have always been a lurker but trying to be more active. Even posted in a few communities too!

We’re about to enter another Reddit mass migration phase starting tonight.
What's happening tonight?

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