With Reddit just announcing ai mods for sub reddits I think it’s finally time I fully give it up. I’ve been slowly trying to transition back into the fediverse but damn is it hard sometimes. Listen I have left leaning politics but does every other post have to be about some political shit on the all tab, I feel like I’m forced into this box that is my subscribed feed or I have to actively search out new communities because all is just a political circle jerk that I don’t care about. Not to mention the moment I came back I saw a fucking flow chart on the instances drama of the week. If I wasn’t so dedicated to dropping Reddit I think the average Joe would have left by now seeing all of this. And YES I have been trying to be the change I want to see if you check my profile I regularly post in meme subs non political just funny memes to be like “lmao” and people can move about their day. I’m not saying there ISNT other type of content on lemmy or piefed it just feels like the stuff that floats to the top is political

  • faythofdragons@slrpnk.netEnglish
    17·
    10 hours ago

    How do you find what you like? I sew, and do dollhouse miniatures, but I haven’t seen any of that on the fediverse yet.

    • dadarobot@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      !newcommunities@lemmy.world

      !newcommunities@discuss.online

      give those a scroll and see if anything works for you.

      also search for topics you enjoy, or things you would expect to find as a subreddit. i usually sub to the top couple matches by population. this can backfire when i see the same post multiple times in (for example) 4 different linux coms. not everything wil have a com, but thats ok. make one if you feel strongly enough about it.

      when i first joined a few years ago there was a tool that would try to find matches for your subreddits. i cant remember what it was called or if it still exists, but give it a look

      a combo between the two is to find the list of your subs on reddit, then search them all one by one in lemmy. it takes time, but it will set you up reasonably well

      pay attentiin when things are crossposted, maybe you would like one of those communities too

      that and just stick with it. youll find your place.

      edit: my links at the top broke

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      33 minutes ago

      Check out lemmyverse.net to find communities. If you set your home instance (top right, button with a home icon, enter slrpnk.net in your case), then it will open the page where you can subscribe directly. There’s a longer guide here with more tips: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/finding-communities

      If you aren’t sure what you want to subscribe to, there is a list pinned on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca @blaze@piefed.zip had an amazing list of non-politics communities that unfortunately I can’t seem to find right now.

      Once Lemmy releases the big v1 update, both Lemmy and Piefed will have multi-communities that you can subscribe to in order to get a lot of similar content.

      As for your requests specifically, check out these. Some are more relevant than others, and the small ones grow as interested people post to them:

    • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      If you build it and interact with it, they will come (eventually). I think there’s a few crafts communities? I can’t remember. If not, create it, share with us your awesome creations!

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
      4·
      8 hours ago

      Sub to all the new com communities, and keep your eyes peeled for any links to interesting stuff in the comments and then immediately subscribe if it seems at all interesting.

      But the reality is that niche comms don’t really fire on Lemmy yet, so you’ll mainly find stuff that’s either mass appeal or nerd/leftist stuff.

      I tried to create a community about trees (the wooden kind) when I joined. It’s still here but after a lot of effort posting there I realized there just wasn’t enough of an audience to keep organic discussions going at all times. Same with my local geographic area.

      Hopefully someday there will be more growth and these can start to become more viable.

      • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipEnglish
        4·
        5 hours ago

        The trouble, I think, is that even Reddit wasn’t Reddit (as we think of it now) for years and years. Recall that when it started, there were no subreddits, it was all one feed. The niche subreddits branched off of more general ones after participation grew and critical mass developed, the subreddit topics driven by what users were talking about.

        It doesn’t work the other way around. You can create a community to house a topic that people want to talk about; you can’t make people interested in a topic just by creating a community. I think we’ve suffered by premature fissioning into a thousand niche communities, each with 1 or 2 people talking to themselves.

      • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        It’s definitely a volume thing. With niche interest, you’ll bump into this limitation quite frequently.