Hello Lemmings (I have no idea what Lemmy users are called) I’m a reddit migrator. I’m still a little confused, but I’d like to learn. How do I find communities? If I want to discuss Warhammer or Steam games, or something like that, what’s the best way to find that content? If it matters I am on the phone app.
If you don’t have any specific content that you want, set your feed to All and sort by Hot or Top Day. Scroll it and if something sparks your interest go to the community where the post was made and subscribe.
If you are interested in specific topics, click search and type the keyword. In Jerboa search function only looks for communities, based on keyword, but in website you can set search to either posts, comments etc.
This way I found 1 Warhammer community.
Awesome! This was fairly easy! Thank you!
Try all>new as well.
I like lemmings, lol. It’s cute.
I got you fam:
Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!
Hero.
Also lemmyverse.net
I just found out about this one, and it seems like by far the best one to me. Sorting, and you can set your home instance to make it easier to subscribe. Which… honestly how is that the other options don’t have that stuff?
If you found a community, for example via https://browse.feddit.de/, but get a 404 error when visiting it:
Try searching for the community with a bang prefixed: !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
This will “discover” the community for your instance. When coming from a big instance like lemmy.world this is probably rarely necessary. Only one lemming has to discover a remote community to unlock it for all other lemmings on the same instance.
But someone has to be the first, and that lemming must bang it.
Good to know! I imagine that will save me a headache in the future. Also,
But someone has to be the first, and that lemming must bang it.
Quote of the year.
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Don’t know, I’m just using lemmy.
Not that it helps with your question, but there is also a wiki which we probably should use much more: https://joinfediverse.wiki/What_is_Lemmy%3F
Lemmings?
Lemmings is absolutely delightful! Like, it is vaguely insulting sounding, but it’s cheeky and I hope it becomes an accepted term.
Being named after a suicidal herd animal might backfire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game)
I mean the Lemmy mascot is literally a lemming. Guess that’s similar to calling Redditors Snoos.
Better than Lemmons or Lemmurs I guess.
i consider myself a lemming now
Try the Lemmy community browser
@Protoknuckles lol I like the term lemmings.
On kbin.soxial it’s as easy as going to the magazine list and searching for things you might be interested in. It’ll show you mags across all hosters. Not sure if lemmy.world has any similar search.
To clarify, Magazines on kbin are simply Communities on Lemmy. And yes, I’m surprised you guys don’t have a similar search function? It has some issues with case sensitivity but that’s pretty much how I found the stuff I subscribed to.
@Protoknuckles@lemmy.world I just started an AoS community here: !ageofsigmar@lemmy.ca
Direct URL: https://lemmy.ca/c/ageofsigmar
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !ageofsigmar@lemmy.ca
https://lemmyverse.net has been pretty helpful for finding new communities.
- search on here https://browse.feddit.de/
- hit the copy button and go to your lemmy tab that has you signed in and search for that url you copied (I open that community in a new tab)
- sometimes it takes a few trys hitting the search button for it to show up
- then hit the community name on the sidebar if the subscribe button doesnt load a proper button to click
- then if it says subscription pending just hit it and hit subscribe again, repeat until it says Joined-
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