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Ive been on reddit for more than a decade. Kinda bittersweet, but its not the first time I have moved on from an internet site. I just cant support reddit and sucking up all my posts for AI purposes. Feels terrible and spammy. Ive been a reddit premium holder for many many years.

Anyways, what communities do you recommend?

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[-] AGD4@lemmy.world 118 points 9 months ago

Welcome to Lemmy!

I found that a large number of communities have been named after popular, and less popular, subreddits. So I found them easy to find. There was an old r/Redditalternatives post that has a decent range of communities to start out, which I've copied below. It is similar to the default subreddits.:

*Note:*The "World" hyperlink takes you to the Lemmy.World communitiy.

General

News/Politics

Pets and such

Gaming

TV and Music

Pics and Art

Technology and Science

Sports

Others

[-] AGD4@lemmy.world 38 points 9 months ago

Oh, by the way: If you're a fan of the classic "Old.reddit.com" look, the Programming.Dev instance has an identical interface: https://old.programming.dev/?sort=Hot&listingType=All .

It's federated with Lemmy.World so all the same posts will appear. I'm partial to that on Desktop browser, and stick with https://p.lemmy.world for mobile.

[-] eeltech@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[-] Ategon@programming.dev 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah both lemmy.world and us have the same alternate frontends at the same subdomains (apart from voyager in which they went for m for mobile and we did v for voyager)

Links for all four of them

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

These front ends already added a lot of value for me than Reddit when using the desktop site.

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The only thing that is unfortunate about the old.lemmy.world site is that the block feature is broken. I try to curate my All feed by blocking spammers and communities I am not interested in, but nothing happens when you click the Block button on any post.

[-] eeltech@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Interesting, I tried a simple test with a user and it worked fine, blocked them on the first attempt. I actually had difficulty unblocking them later, though, I don't think it "stuck" and had to refresh and/or navigate to a different page, and then unblock them and it worked

/shrug

[-] AGD4@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Sweet! I didn't know about Old.lemmy.world. Thanks so much!

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Oh thats great thanks! Ill def be using that.

[-] Susaga@ttrpg.network 11 points 9 months ago

I would actually recommend !anime@ani.social instead. The admins of lemmy.ml are weirdly hostile towards anime, but ani.social is an anime-specific instance.

[-] oneguynick@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago
[-] livus@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago

@AGD4 great list!

@mesamunefire once you get your head around how to use urls from your instance, another useful directory is the Kbin Collections - like multireddits.

These are basically multis that Kbin users curated and made public so that others from kbin can subscribe to them, but since it lists all the communities you can manually add what you want in your lemmy.world account.

[-] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Thanks for this! I've been here since the 3rd party app shutdown and this is great!

[-] Piece_Maker@feddit.uk 4 points 9 months ago

I'm kind of new here too, why do all these communities have both a lemmy.ee and lemmy.world version? Is it just that someone happened to set them up on both instances so now there's two, or is there some kind of crosspost/mirroring going on?

[-] ReadyUser31@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Also a little plug for !microblog_memes@lemmy.world which is our WhitePeopleTwitter replacement.

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