What are some things that I should know? Any community recommendations??

  • iceberg314@midwest.social
    2·
    1 hour ago

    Subscribe to a bunch on communities and even duplicate communities acrossed instances. Lemmy is much more spread out and not as popular it seems

  • asudox@lemmy.asudox.devM
    11·
    3 hours ago
    • The most active comm in the whole Threadiverse is [email protected]
    • You can check [email protected] and [email protected] to see what’s happening in the Fediverse.
    • For drama between people, we have this: [email protected]
    • Same thing, but more political: [email protected]
    • The piracy comm: [email protected]
    • All modlogs are public (the site (instance) modlog also shows admin actions)
    • Votes are not private
    • There are other software for the Threadiverse such as mbin and piefed. Don’t assume everyone is using Lemmy
    • Currently the popular Lemmy alternative is Piefed
    • Maybe some past Threadiverse events/lore for context in a few rare discussions that might happen and have happened.
    • Most users in the Threadiverse are FOSS enthusiasts
    • A rough idea of how federation works to understand why some stuff are the way they are (e.g. fetching comms unknown to your instance, defederation, phantom comments, etc.)
    • There are some LLM bots (unidentified as such) roaming here as well. Be sure to block and report them.
    • This place might look inactive compared to Reddit. We are trying to grow organically. Bear with us.
    • If you want to help smaller communities out, try using the Scaled sort. It gives a boost to smaller comms in your feed.
  • remon@ani.social
    91·
    11 hours ago

    You should read the sidebar rules before posting.

    This post is violating two.

    • daggermoon@piefed.worldEnglish
      4·
      7 hours ago

      I used to be the guy saying “Hey, they’re not that bad” until I get a comment removed for a stupid fucking reason". Why are mods such pathetic power tripping losers? I’m a community mod. I don’t delete comments, even though I occasionally see ones that annoy me.

    • JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org
      51·
      14 hours ago

      Lemmy.ml has some pretty active communities on it. Might be worth it for OP to look over their most active communities and see if any interest them. If so, you have the option of blocking communities instead of the whole instance.

      Lemmygrad and hexbear pretty much stick to their sociopolitical beliefs. If that’s not your bag, then no real loss in blocking those instances.

      • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
        81·
        12 hours ago

        Nope. Zero tolerance for .ml communities. Even if I’d otherwise be interested, their admins are so unpleasant that I would not recommend anyone participate in them.

  • tuckerm@feddit.onlineEnglish
    11·
    12 hours ago

    One thing I’ve noticed is that, if a community looks dead, you can post in it and people will still see it. Like, there are communities where there hasn’t been a post in four months, but then someone posts in it, and it gets 10-12 replies. This seems to be very different from Reddit, where inactive communities would never make it to your front page, even if you were subscribed to them.

    So, don’t be disappointed if you find a community about something you’re interested in, but it looks inactive. There might actually be like dozen people who will see your post and want to talk about it.

    You mentioned music and manga in another post; a couple of related ones I’m subscribed to are:

  • LEM 1689@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    9·
    14 hours ago

    Learn how to block people, communities, and instances. Personally, I’m not into anime, so I block the ani.social instance and whatever anime communities start up on other instances.

    Not into sports so I block most sports comms.

    I also block users whose names are just too narcissistic, banal, or vulgar.

    • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      This.

      The vast majority of content here is posted by a few dozen users.

      Blocking a few of them really changes the tone.

  • wjs018@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    13 hours ago

    So, I see you joined ani.social and you have made mention of enjoying Japanese media elsewhere in this thread. In that case, I have some community recommendations for you:

    There are plenty of other communities out there for specific pieces of media, if you are looking for those as well. Some of the more active ones I am aware of:

  • gilokee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    14 hours ago

    Welcome!! What are you interested in? There are a lot of communities here, but unfortunately not quite as many as the other place. >_> However, it’s easy to create new ones!

    To contradict what the other kind commenter said, for an app I recommend Boost for Lemmy. ;)

      • gilokee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        14 hours ago

        Nice! So (assuming you’re on a PC), you want to click on “communities” at the top and then search for whatever. I personally like these ones: Bandcamp, Music, Indieheads, and anime. Remember to click “all” when you’re searching!

        Also: there are some quirky places here, like [email protected]. It’s just pictures of benches around the world. I love it.

  • SubjectProperty343@ani.socialOP
    4·
    14 hours ago

    This may sound like a dumb question and I already have accounts for it but would I need different accounts to join certain communities? I currently have shit just works and club account

    • paraplu@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      12 hours ago

      No, any of your accounts should be able to see all communities you might wish to join.

      There’s an exception to that, but it’s not worth worrying about for ages. This may be less likely, as you’re on ani.social and that should be the instance best aligned with your interests; once you’re used to Lemmy, you may find that a community you want is on an instance that isn’t federated with your instance. In that case it’s easy to export your profile and move.

    • gilokee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      14 hours ago

      I don’t think so. I only have a lemmy.world account and so far I’ve been able to access everything.

  • AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world
    4·
    14 hours ago

    Well this is a very, um, specific recommendation, but LemmyNSFW was the go to place for adult content on Lemmy but it recently died and has been replaced with Fedinsfw.app. You know, in case you need a specialized alt…

    • emb@lemmy.world
      2·
      14 hours ago

      And thanks for being on Lemmy! Try to keep in mind that all the less-active-than-you’d-hope communities need your help. Engage where you can to support the community building effort, it makes a difference here.

      • gilokee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        14 hours ago

        This. I was just thinking about it this morning for some reason. “I wish my niche Lemmy communities were more active. Wait. I’m part of the reason they’re not! Time to post more.”