I’m very new to Lemmy, I’m trying to see how it all works and what happens here. But honestly I feel like it might be a little too decentralized? Like, I know it’s the point but I feel like this doesn’t make for the best experience. Communities can be on any particular instance, and you can have repeats of communities for the same things. This feels overcomplicated, but I understand why it’s that way.
Also, how many people are actually doing a full switch from Reddit? I personally don’t intend on leaving Reddit, I’m just leaving temporarily, but not for any specific amount of time. I think that’s what most people will do, or I guess I hope so, because Lemmy still has a long way to go before it gets good enough to make a competition, especially considering the drawbacks I said before, and I don’t want us to lose all those communities that went black indefinetly, even if I supported the decision.
The point of the blackout was to protest, expecting an end to it all, although many are already wishing for an end for Reddit altogether from what I can see.
Idk, I still hope Reddit doesn’t die tbh, I hope they listen to reason and backtrack a bit, or we find a way to bypass the restrictions somehow, I think I saw a revanced patch to many Sync work iirc, so maybe there’s hope still.
Now that I completely agree with! People are begging for this kind of feature, and I see some talks to make PRs for it (I think one even has a bounty?)
Hopefully we’ll see more about this soon.
But another thing to note, lemmy.ml is where most of the established communities are, but it’s way overloaded with the exodus and is failing to federate right now. So it might look a bit thin for you on Beehaw, but there is actually plenty of content on lemmy.ml if you go there yourself. Sadly you can’t make an account, but you can go there to see what you’re missing. And once they sort out their server issues in the coming days, all that missing content will be available to you on Beehaw, and you’ll be able to post/comment/like/etc when they do.
By the way, until there is a better, more official way to find communities, I recommend looking in these places:
https://browse.feddit.de/ - pretty nice, has a search bar
https://lemmy.directory/communities/listing_type/All/page/1 - An instance that federates with “every” server and lists them here.
Until more clean ways of discovering communities makes their way into Lemmy, these should do a good job of getting you started!
I am also very new here, and maybe this feature already exists, but I think it might be cool for community operators to sort their communities into a limited range of “tags” (or “topics,” or any other similar word), then the user can filter their searches by any number of tags.
Thanks!
Right now I have an account in beehaw, lemm.ee and vlemmy.net. I know it’s overkill, but it was mostly because I still don’t understand how things like NSFW and no downvotes work when you’re in communities from other instances. I’ll probably end up with just one when I figure it out tho