I’ll admit I’m moving from reddit and don’t yet understand what lemmy and the fediverse are all about. I’m currently using the Connect for Lemmy app.
So far it feels like there’s a lot less content here, or I have no idea how to find the popular instances/communities.
Another small gripe I have is when I search for a community (eg. gamedev) there’s multiple that seem to be about the same thing. I’ve subscribed to them all and I guess that’s just the nature of decentralized communities but it certainly makes the user experience a bit less seamless.
Does anyone have tips on how to best utilize Lemmy?
The user explosion has caused a lot of people to start up new communities, leading to a lot of duplicates.
Same as on reddit, there can be many slightly different subs for the same thing, but eventually one will amass the most users and activity and become the “main” one.
I’ll admit I’m moving from reddit and don’t yet understand what lemmy and the fediverse are all about. I’m currently using the Connect for Lemmy app. So far it feels like there’s a lot less content here, or I have no idea how to find the popular instances/communities. Another small gripe I have is when I search for a community (eg. gamedev) there’s multiple that seem to be about the same thing. I’ve subscribed to them all and I guess that’s just the nature of decentralized communities but it certainly makes the user experience a bit less seamless.
Does anyone have tips on how to best utilize Lemmy?
You can use lemmyverse.com to browse all communities
The user explosion has caused a lot of people to start up new communities, leading to a lot of duplicates.
Same as on reddit, there can be many slightly different subs for the same thing, but eventually one will amass the most users and activity and become the “main” one.