Welcome!

Lemmy will be different from Reddit, sometimes in good ways and sometimes in annoying ways (mainly because it's still being built, there are a lot of people working on the code and planning behind the scenes). Feel free to make more posts like this as you think of questions or have issues.

For the communities themselves, try searching here: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

I didn't see anything for Koalas, but you could try things like "nature", "animals", etc.

Which brings up the other point, make the community! Lemmy being new is both good and bad. There is not that much content to view, but any content that is created will be seen by a lot of people. Make a community and teach people about them, get people posting.

Here are a few others you might enjoy:

• !environment@beehaw.org
• !wildlifephotography@lemmy.world
• !biology@mander.xyz
• !australia@aussie.zone
• !environment@aussie.zone
• !climate@slrpnk.net

Also you can totally make that image (or another image) your profile photo here. Click your name in the top right to edit that stuff. I myself like sea otters :)

If you want some browser extensions / apps, here are lists:

• browser extensions
• apps

Tip: "Sublemmies" are actually called "communities" here.

For your avatar, Go to settings, there should be an image upload option labelled "Avatar"

For searching for Koala communities, Go to search by clicking on the search icon, Go to the "type box"(to the left of "Subscribed/Local/[all]" and click on "Communities", then search for "Koala".

If there aren't any, contribute by making your own and filling it with content, other users will follow.

welcome, enjoy, and good luck finding whatever niche you like here

I’ve been on lemmy since the app shutdown on Reddit and it’s come a long way. Still lots of room for improvement, sure, but it keeps getting better. Reminds me of Reddit in the early days. It’s nice to actually have a voice in the comments and not be hurried a million comments deep. We all have to do our part to post and comment to keep things moving in the right direction!

Also, I had 16,400 Coins on Reddit that I’m about to lose as of the end of tomorrow since they appear to be doing away with that as well.

Not to mention the old place but you can arrange to cross-award posts here - https://old.reddit.com/r/AwardBonanza/

I came here after Boost stopped working.

Welcome ! Lemmy is not perfect, some communities are fighting each others and there are still some technical improvements to make. I hope you will enjoy as I do ;)

Stay positive, stay active!

There are some toxic Reddit refugees appearing, but apart from that you should find things much better. Don't feed the trolls :)

It's confusing at first, but there's info out there explaining how to get started. There's like 4-5 decent apps; try them all out and pick your fav.

While you're looking for content and your feed to be customised, sort by Hot or Top Today for decent content.

You might want to check the Australia instances and communities for saving the koalas. We're expecting a shit fire season this summer which is never good for the dwindling population, on top of the NSW and TAS deforestation.

Welcome 😁

@KonalaKoala Hello there, enjoy exploring Lemmy. Without complicating too much when people talk about federation/fediverse, here https://fedidb.org/ which lists services that uses same protocol aka fediverse. So if you don't find niche on your instance, it might be somewhere on other lemmy instance, kbin instance or somewhere on Microblogs/blogs in related #koalas #koala . If you find people with same interests you can create community yourself. It's wild,prototype,unexplored west here. GL.

welcome! I hope you enjoy your stay!