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I think part of the problem is finding communities.
I search for things, but they all look so small I assume that can't be the proper one and end up not joining it. I'm not convinced I'm seeing the full list of what's out there.
So much this! Can there really be only a dozen or so posts in a community as wide as cars? Like seriously? I must have some setting messed up.
Take it easy. Reddit has more than 400 millions users, Lemmy hasn't even broken into 70k MAU. The long tail is not yet that long here.
If we want to get rid of the walled gardens, we need to have patience and cultivate our own. Join the communities you care about and stick with a discipline of posting one or two posts every day, no matter the source. Even if you have to browse the equivalent subreddit, get the link, send a DM to the original author about it to let them know they can post on Lemmy as well.
People are not going to jump over night to here, but slowly we can win this one out.
This has been super helpful for finding communities outside of my instance lemm.ee, as many of them may not be discoverable without 1st searching for the exact community link
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
That's a really useful site.
I'm not sure why it's showing such a small number when I search for it using my instance. e.g. searching for "games" shows [email protected] has 83 subscribers, while your link shows 19,400. Is it just showing the number of subscribers from my instance on there, or some number when it was first found by my instance or what?
Yes, that's exactly it. It's an unfortunate product of how the backend works right now, as far as I understand it. I don't think there is a way to see the total sum of subscribers to a community from all instances right now. I think the issue has been raised on GitHub, though.
Okay. I'm going to be stupid and ask the basic question
I'm on lemm.ee and my feed is interesting enough so if I fuck with it I could make it worse.
But let's say I want to see more of https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy (or something smaller) on my feed how do I do that?
I was going to wait for an app and go from there. But I'm not sure which one has swam to the top of most recommended (I used rif on Reddit and enjoyed that)
Edit: I'm going to try sync. I'll work it out from that
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
The best way right now is to use a heavily curated Subscribed feed. At some point in the future some kind of "Multireddit"-like functionality will probably be added, either through Lemmy itself or a 3rd-party app, which will make the frontpage experience better, but for now the best way is to use an app with good content filtering for the All page and combine it with a carefully built Subscribed page.
Just subscribe to it and it will show up in your "subscribed" feed. Should be similar on sync.
True, I think the "lemmy is so confusing to join" concerns are overblown (just make an account?), but admittedly the community finding part is... not intuitive. People really aren't seeing everything that's out there through the standard search if their instance isn't federated with the instance where the target community is hosted, or no one on their instance has searched for that community before. Having to go offsite for tools to find communities is a poor experience.