I’m new here, and have been looking into different communities to subscribe to, it’s pretty difficult to decide which ones to subscribe to when theres often the same community on more than one server. (Example: internetisbeautiful on @feddit.de, @lemmy.ee, @lemmy.ml)
I’m not super savvy but couldn’t they merge them and have the community hosted as mirrors of each other on both for redundancy? If I’m wrong, do correct me, again, not super savvy and also new here.
I usually just go with whichever community is more active
I haven’t seen anyone mention lemmy-explorer yet, it’s a good way to find communities too:
This is awesome! Thank you for sharing this.
you can just subscribe to them all. that way, if one instance goes down, or dies out, or makes nonsensical moderation decisions, you still have the others. it’s not a bug, it’s a feature!
I definetly understand the benifits of this, but a lot of these communities post the same or a lot of duplicate content.
Also didn’t think about the nonsensical moderation in one community, so maybe mirroring them wouldn’t be that great of an idea.
there really should be a better way of multiposting so that duplicate content is not actually shown to the user
Subscribe to all of them. It won’t be a problem.
It’s like if you followed #s of the same thing on Instagram, twitter, mastodon, bluesky, and whatever the equivalent of # is on Facebook, then a reddit sub with the same name. Different populations and user bases, but that’s a good thing.
There’s some degree of consolidation that happens, particularly when one community is on a bigger instance and would be better served by being hosted elsewhere. But there’s not really any barriers to using multiple. If you crosspost, you have better chances of it being seen anyway, and you’ll get access to any responses. If you’re wanting to comment, then the OP that crossposted is going to get your response no matter which ones it’s in.
Only drawback is that your comment in one won’t show in the others unless you copy/paste it. Which is perfectly valid if you want to, but most people would see your comment eventually anyway, so the conversation will still happen if it would have in the first place.
I kinda had issues adapting to it myself, but now I tend to prefer it when communities are spread out, because every instance has its own vibe usually. So you get different kinds of discussions than you would if there was only one community on one instance.
Some subjects end up needing a single community just to make it easier to find, but it’s pretty rare imo.
Some subjects end up needing a single community just to make it easier to find, but it’s pretty rare imo.
It’s quite common for hobbies and niche topics. There’s only one active !warhammer40k@lemmy.world and !gardening@lemmy.world
Let’s say there’s a group of people in your hometown who like dogs. They will talk about dog thing this, dog thing that, probably something local. Now you travel to another town and they too have a group that likes dogs. They will talk about dog things too, but probably it’ll be different dog things that are also specific to their location.
You have the option to join both dog communities without physically traveling from one town to another. You can even choose not to join a dog group in another town that only like to talk about dog fighting for example.
There is no “tech savvy” required here. You signed up in a town that has communities there, you can see communities from other towns, and you can choose to join them all, some, or none. It’s up to you.
You know how there’s a ton of subreddits on Reddit that do the exact same thing and like literally all them except 1 or 2 are dead?
Yeah, so that’s what’s going on here. Those communities just simply haven’t been around for long enough to completely die out yet. Just go for the top 1 or 2 communities that have the most subscribers and/or most activity
Well, that’s part of the decentralisation with its pros and cons. And that’s what i enjoy about the Verse (lemmy, mbin, piefed…)
- cons : multiple communities with the same name. People are dispersed.
- pro : no centralised decision for all the Verse. Several flavor.
You can chose them based on :
- the number of comments and posts.
- the moderation team by checking the modlog of their community. Do you agree with their value ? How is it managed ?
- people. Do you fell well there ? Or do you prefer there ? Only time can tell you :)
Another idea :
- Use an app that support multi-communities
- Create a Piefed account so you can benefit from multi-community : feed. Create a feed, and put those similar community in one place. On few cross-post, they also regroup comment in one place. It’s still a new software but i enjoy it a lot. :)
The feeds are also (now), in addition to being user customizable, shareable as well. So yes you can create your own, but also you may not have to, and instead just find one already made and maintained by someone else with similar preferences:-).
PieFed can do this, but Lemmy cannot. There is no official app support for PieFed yet, though testing is underway with Thunder so perhaps soon - for now check out PieFed.social in a web browser, and see the Topic areas, or the new user customizable and shareable Feeds. e.g., Arts & Crafts.
Hello, I’m not the owner of this post, but I made a PieFed account, based on what you said months ago. I find the extra features really nice! I just have one question: how do I know if I’m getting notifications from communities?
Go to the community, e.g. !mealtimevideos@lemmy.cafe, and just to the right of the name, you’ll see a bell icon. If that has a slash through it, which it should by default, then you will NOT receive notifications for that content. Toggle it to ON if you want them though.
I have greatly reduced my number of notifications from communities, since they can really pile up, especially for high-volume communities, and all the more so if you don’t check them multiple times a day. But for very rarely posted to communities, they can be a great way to ensure that you won’t miss something by other ways of reading, like your Subscribed or one of the Topic Feeds, which just recently were made to become user customizable and also shareable.
You can also sign up to receive notifications for Feeds too. Or a user. Or a post - most anything really. You can also toggle OFF notifications for a post or comment that people keep bothering you with, without having to delete it (this happened to me a couple times, once on Hexbear.net and again in lemmygrad.ml).
There are some quirks that PieFed still needs to fix, but overall I’m so happy with it! I’m glad you are enjoying it as well. Keep us all updated, in communities like this one, if you have other questions or feedback or anything - the Fediverse is getting active again all of a sudden, with all the enshittification happening on Reddit recently!:-)
The bell thing is unintuitive…
Play around. Press things and see what happens. Don’t be afraid to break them - what’s the worst that could happen, haha?!:-P
Edit: I should add that PieFed is not “finished” yet. Not is Lemmy, but in some ways Lemmy is way more polished than PieFed, and in so many other ways PieFed has so many more cool features than Lemmy. But you will most definitely find things here that aren’t even fully functional, much less polished (in Lemmy as well, but far more often in PieFed tbh). Both Lemmy and PieFed, we here feel, are still leagues ahead of Reddit’s enshittification, even though we acknowledge that the tech features and polish that Reddit has (it had a whole team of people putting a decade of work into it!) is still vastly superior to anything we have here on the Fediverse. But there’s no ads, and therefore no pressure from above to e.g. not say words like “Luigi”, and it’s possible to have a conversation with someone kind here (on Reddit that got increasingly less likely), and while we have bots here, they are properly labeled as such the vast majority of the time (and PieFed helps further by adding an icon to those accounts that it suspects are bots in disguise:-), and so on. The trade-offs include that there are fewer people here, the complexity of using this place is sometimes higher, and the interface is not as polished as Reddit. But it’s getting better all the time!:-)
Hey,
Welcome to Lemmy.
You can have a look at the list of active communities, there is a pinned post on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active can also help with finding the most active community on a topic. You can use the house icon on the right to set your home instance (lemm.ee in your case) to be redirected to it when you click on the links.
U can always just subscriber to multiple
Other people have already given more than enough answers, but welcome! I’m glad you’re here 😊
Hey Cris,
Just wanted to thank you for being around. You’re always nice and chill! 😄
❤️
I feel very strongly that the best thing any person can do for the fediverse is make it a place worth being :)
At some point I wanna write about it and share my thoughts to try and encourage folks to be intentionally kind in how they shape the culture of this space. I think the fediverse will succeed when the fediverse when folks get here and decide it’s a nice place to be. Plus it just makes me happy :)
Thank you very much for the kind words, it means a lot to me, it’s always nice seeing your face around ☺️ hope you have a good one blaze!
That post would be very valuable!
Thank you, have a good one too 😄
Yes and no, this topic comes up fairly frequently, and generally…nobody knows the best solution forward LMAO
piefed.social is a Lemmy “competitor” and is intended to be fully interoperable, but in practice it hasn’t matured yet and it’s interoperability with the Lemmy-verse is decent but has its quirks
But a big thing there is they have a multi sub type feature to combine comms like that
But some people also like the multiple comms, because they can have different viewpoints and culture.
Like lemmy.ml is a huge Tankie instance and their c/memes comms moderation skew towards censoring of comments and posts critical of Russia/China/NK and allows political memes
Where as c/meme on .world have banished most political memes directing them to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world instead
Completely unrelated, but you finally moved to lemmy.cafe? Congrats!
Lol I’m trying it out, davel un-instance-banned me after that meme went live and then banned me from each comm individually instead, so they could brigade my posts/comments
Soooo I decided to try out .cafe since they defed from the entire triad lolol
