I’m confused asf
Go to the communities page for your instance, set it to all, and scroll through the first several pages adding anything that sounds interesting. Don’t worry if there are duplicates, sub them all. The search for any favorite topics and add those communities, too. Then browse by subscribed»new going forward.
You can also check out !newcommunities@lemmy.world for communities still getting off the ground.
Oh! And when linking, do it like I did above; this link works no matter what instance you’re on.
Thanks
Also check https://lemmyverse.net to see list of all known communities. If you click the home icon, you can set your instance (which is lemmy.world for you) and all the communities will open on your instance correctly. All the instance things might be confusing at first, but you’ll grasp it soon enough, no need to worry about that.
How did I miss this, thanks! What an awesome website.
Whatever you do, don’t hold your poop for three days
Is this a future Lemmy museum story?
Future?
I would think that holding your poop for any amount of time would be no good. I usually deposit mine directly into a convenient flushable porcelain receptacle, no extra handling required
Yeah, I try not to touch poop at all, this guy is holding it for days!
What a weirdo!
Is?
No one is gonna ask the important questions around here? I’ll give it a whirl: Is extra handling optional?
Flushable?
Select “All” instead of “Local”, sort by “Top 12 Hour”, and enjoy.
This and keep subscribing to anything that interests you
This is the way.
Post nudes
Is this what you want? Sorry, I’m dyslexic
Sorry, let me rephrase that:
duNes stoP
duNes stoP
You want a Dune post?
Bless the op and his duneposting, bless the coming and going of them. May their memes cleanse this comment section.
Plz more
Search for communities that interest you! It’s just like Reddit, once you curate your own experience you’ll enjoy it :) check out my list of casual/fun communities on Lemmy, or browse Lemmyverse for a list of all of them.
EEEEE!!! Both of my communities made your list!!! Thank you!! (It’s beebutts and awwnverts).
How do you search? I’m on sync and don’t know how to look for things on purpose
Sync has search but it’s a bit limited. Use Lemmyverse instead :)
But… How?
open your browser and go to https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active&nsfw=null - is this not working for you?
Search bar in the top left, or scroll through.
Join lemmynsfw.com right now
Thanks, spez?
Lol
If you are using your phone, get one of the mobile apps (Voyager, Liftoff, Infinite, Connect or Sync for Lemmy) and then use it just as with reddit. You already have created your account, thus chosen your instance, which is the biggest ‘This is different’ topic.
heh, hem! Jerboa
Ok so I know Jerboa has it’s fans, and I’m sure I’m going to get downvoted for this. But.
In my opinion, Jerboa has the worst interface of all of the lemmy apps that are out, and should not be promoted to new users.
I said it. Bring on the downvotes. It hurts because in your hearts you also know it is true.
I don’t know that it’s true because I’ve never seen what the other apps look like!
I was also a Baconreader user so I’m used to not having a fancy UI
I’ve used Jerboa and Liftoff and Jerboa is much better. What do you use? What specific things make it better?
I was using Connect, and am now using Sync.
To be honest, I don’t remember the specifics of Jerboa. I remember it feeling very utilitarian though. Not terrible for some people, I understand that. It just felt like it was designed by programmers, if that makes sense.
I prefer a more white-space centric design. Cards, material design, with gesture based controls. Connect actually does that well, but I think Sync might be coded
betterdifferently, because it feels a lot more smooth. No jankiness. It doesn’t feel like a web app.I kinda threw a lot of concepts out there, hopefully some of that made sense haha.
Also, I don’t mean to say that people who like Jerboa are somehow wrong - you like what you like and I’m glad you have something that you like :D.
Just tried Connect and Liftoff and both were bad compared to Jerboa. On one I couldn’t even figure out how to down vote. I think I’ll wait a few more months and try out the competition again.
Post the first thing that comes to your mind in !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world. Oh, wait…
Grab some water and stay hydrated.
Make a cup of tea
Search https://lemmyverse.net/communities for any communities you may be interested in. Many of them have the same or similar names to reddit subs. Also, subscribe to !newcommunities@lemmy.world. Once you have a few, flip your feed over to “subscribed” and browse your custom feed. Occasionally pop back into All to see if there are any other good ones you may have missed.
If you hate the web version of lemmy like I do, check out the mobile apps, which tend to have a more reddit-like design.
And once you’ve done all that, the only thing left to do it shitpost.
Bake a cake
And post it ona food community. If anyone figures out how to join one, that would be a great next step.
On your homepage, you have some options at the top for what to display.
The first option is Subscribed/Local/All. The default is Local - change it to either Subscribed (If you like subscribing to communities) or All (If you prefer to just see everything). Keeping it on “Local” is a pretty poor way to use Lemmy - it’ll only show you posts from lemmy.world and never from any of the other Lemmy instances. This goes for when you’re searching for communities too - make sure you set the search to “All” and not “Local”.
The second option is how to sort - with the default being “Active”. “Active” is a bit too slow to update for most people’s taste - you might find you like “Hot” a lot more. You can set the default for both of these options to whatever you want on your settings page.
When browsing, if you find a certain community (subreddit) consistently puts posts in your feed that you don’t like, there’s a handy button to block that community if you go to it, in the top right.
Past that, just do your best to be active - more active than you may have been on reddit, because Lemmy is a lot smaller. Upvote posts you like, comment on posts where you have something to add, and post things you find elsewhere.
Next step is to join !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world and !memes@lemmy.ml , you’ll then quickly get the hang of it.
Lol those were among the first communities I blocked
Same, ha ha! But it’s about personalising the experience to what the user is interested in to my mind
Why join them if they both jump to c/All all the time?
Because eventually you’ll want to stop browsing c/all after you find enough of your preferred content.
I rarely browse by c/All. A curated experience is better than a mishmash of everything imo.
What I want to meant was that they always get too popular and will probably spam your subscribed feed, as it happened to me.
If I want to see memes a quick glance to c/All would do.