I know Reddit's API changes just happened today but I wanted to remind everyone to search out and actively take part in other communities!

ChriskiV@lemmy.world to Reddit@lemmy.world – 241 points –

I know this is the hot topic right now but let's not let Lemmy's default feed JUST be about the Reddit changes. Seek out your hobbies and comment/vote/post <3

In my opinion that will do more for refugees.

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I've found a few communities like those I followed on Reddit, but it's quite depressing how quiet they are. Hope more people make it over.

Agreed. I have never really posted, but I feel obligated to do my part to help the communities grow

Double check your profile languages are set properly. Almost every community off .world looked dead to me at first, but then I realized it was filtering every post flagged with a language I didn't have and .world doesn't give you English by default.

The communities are still tiny, but it was a major help.

I think more people will move over soon! It will take a while to build up the communities on here but I think there is a good foundation so far.

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I've already joined several communities relevant to my interests and have been posting and commenting in some (I'm still more of a lurker than an active user, I might only make a post and/or a few comments a day, or even a week, but I'm here). In case you might be interested:

Gaming, emulation, handhelds, and retro gaming:

Books and eReaders

Technology

Miscellaneous interests

And other instances

Lemmy.world is getting hugged to death

I'm still getting used this fedi system of things. I couldn't make an account on Lemmy, but I can on Kbin. I wasn't expecting to see Lemmy posts here so it was a nice surprise

Wait until you notice the Mastodon users in the comments.

So im on mobile and I still haven't figured out instances. How do I change instances? Is changing instances even a thing or is it too late because I already signed up on lemmy world?

You don't need to change anything, you can subscribe to communities in other instances and they'll all be in your subscribed feed.

Ed: with exceptions

The exceptions might be enough to make someone want to at least have an alt account, IMO. (For anyone new, currently, one of the big exceptions is that Beehaw is currently not connected with Lemmy.world, though the leaders of the instances have been talking about it, and they plan to reconnect when some technical wrinkles have been ironed out. So that is definitely temporary. You can participate with both if you are on most other instances, it's just direct connection that currently isn't happening).

Other reasons include being able to quickly switch if your instance has technical difficulties, and being part of the instance that has your favorite communities. But yeah, +1 on not having to be part of every instance that hosts a community you like. That's the beauty of federation!

You can still follow Beehaw comms, just not interact with them. It would be good is users were warned about this somehow.

A furry instance I found is linked to Lemmy.World, but it also requires manual account activation and I saw no way of getting my Lemmy.World account in the system.

In case you haven't found out already: you need to search for it from your local instance (the search bar is located on your feed, or by your settings). Then, when that community comes up in search results (if it doesn't, try pasting in the URL rather than search terms), click through, and join from the sidebar. Or you could apply directly, I wouldn't worry too much about getting approved. I think that's often just a test to make sure bots are applying, rather than "are you good enough to join."

Not too late at all. To change instances however, ypu need to register on that instance and do a new account. There isn't a way to switch instances on one account. Many are hoping there will be at one point a functionality to export stuff from one account to another but I have no idea how realistic that is.

Ah ok cool, i have another question, how many instances are there, too many to count or just a handful? Which instance is best to use ATM to save lemmy.world from being overloaded?

Closer to "too many to count" than to a handful, but a lot are basically one person running an instance for themselves. Off the top of my head, I'd guess there are at least a dozen that are pretty big and active. Not all of them have "Lemmy" in the name, so you have to find them on one of the instance lists floating around, or just by clicking through to the local instance associated with communities you're following.

Right now, if you want to have an account in another instance, you need to go make a new account in that instance, which is totally fine, so go ahead. Mastodon allows direct account migration, but as far as I know, Lemmy doesn't have that function yet. (And welcome to the Fediverse! :3 )

Some resources for finding communities

Communities/Magazines

Websites

Special Interest Instances

I'm just dipping my toes in. I know I'm gonna go swimming, but I feel lost. How does one create or search for a community here? I want to see forums for what I like, but is there a link explaining how to make it happen? I can't be the only casual that is new here.

The apps I've found search across multiple instances, so I've been able to find everything I was on Reddit for pretty easy. My feed from the 14th until RIF shut down was already a ghost town because only 2 subs I subscribed to didn't go dark at all, and it seems like they just got a headstart migrating here because all my favorite subs are here and some of the biggest I've found already.

Which Android app do you use? I grabbed one called Connect and I can't figure out how to search other instances, I found a Ukraine community for example online but don't know how to pull it up in the app and acrually join it :-(

I don't use that app so I can't help there, but if you go to the actual website and login you can easily search and subscribe there. It'll them be attached to your profile, and show up in your app under your subscribed communities. On the website, click the hamburger menu in the top right, then search.

I was also able to do it in Jerboa before and now on Liftoff, so I would get there's a way in Connect.

This is good advice. I was very sad about losing rif but I've been having a wonderful time finding new communities on Lemmy.

Agreed

I just got here & I hope that this place can grow & flourish with the influx of new users.

I rarely post on Reddit but try to do so here. Find content for random subs if you want to help! And always comment.

I think I've posted more on Lemmy in the past 24 hours than I did in the past year on Reddit. It feels way less like shouting into the void.

One thing I'm finding Lemmy doesn't replicate much of from my reddit subs is cute/funny animal photos/videos, any community recommendations?

Click on the "Communities" link at the top of the page, and search for the word "cat" or "dog". You'll see all sorts of communities to follow. Some are newer and still getting their bearings and some are quite active already.

The only thing I haven't found a large community on lemmy for yet is my city - everything else (including crocheting that I started today) had been easy

Join in and contribute to sharing and disussion of left video content at BreadTube. The more the merrier!

Edit: formatting

I don't think anyone comes to Lemmy to talk only about Reddit.

I'm tryin'. Is there a megathread somewhere where communities and instances introduce themselves and give an elevator pitch?

I've tried sifting through a massive list of instances but they're not often named something that gives away their philosophy and it is a bit tedious to click each and every one. Not to mention then having to locate communities.

But I'm chill and I'll just float around and explore. It's not the worst thing and it feels like early 2000s internet a little bit.

A lot of instances are just general-purpose, I think, so any philosophy is kind of come from who's there, which you wouldn't know until you got there. But I find the list of communities on an instance is helpful. If there are more than a page or two, it's probably general-purpose, but a smaller number will probably show the interests of the people already there.

I don't think there is, truth is, we are like about 5 seconds in the bing bang, it's going to take a bit of time for things to settle and start having identities, some instances are leaning left, some are right, some are somewhere in between.

...I doubt anyone from r/murder drones will come over but lemmy create it, because why not.

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!!! I know for many new Lemmy users (myself included - DAY 1 BAYBEE) it's so fun to shit on "that site" while not posting on "that site", of course it is and well deserved. But, we have the Undiscovered Country up in here. This is robust and full of so many sub-red EH.. Communities that are just like what we had over there, but we can make this whole thing even better. I'm so hype about this!