The federated lemmy field is all about politics and some memes. I convinced a friend with fediverse idea and advised him to start with lemmy and mastodon accounts, he has never used Reddit and aren’t familiar with subs that Reddit users know.
Recommend him some cool communities that’s not politics.
For sure, start with !bestoflemmy@lemmy.world and !lemmy411@lemmy.ca
And here are some of my favorite communities I would recommend.
!general@lemmy.world (General Discussion)
Feel free to copy and grow this list. We need to make it easier to find interesting spaces.
!castiron@lemmy.world!edc@sopuli.xyz
!campingandhiking@links.dartboard.social
!history@lemmy.world!imadethis@lemmy.zip
!origami@feddit.org!opensource@lemmy.ml
Where are all the PieFed communities? Also, putting commas between those communities would be doing everyone reading a favor.
They asked about Lemmy and all those communities are ones that I follow so when adding communities they auto populate for me.
I’ve already reformatted the links, they should all have breaks between each one.
If someone else wants to make a list of piefed communities they can take the time to make that post. I’m not sure why it’s only up to me to make a list.
I’m not sure why it’s only up to me to make a list.
Oh, it’s definitely up to you. Only you can create that definitive list! D:
But seriously, it’s the breaks that are the problem, at least viewing from the PF side. It turns the comment in to a gargantuan one that breaks the flow of the rest of the comments. Commas could easily solve that problem.
On piefed with voyager as my frontend it shows up properly for me, although it doesn’t look like OP has used the markdown convention of double spaces before a line break. Maybe that’s why it’s not displaying for you? Are you on the web frontend?
Yessir (or pronoun of choice). It shows up for me the length of ~4 full-screen pages. So from Voyager they all look clustered together, then?
Oh no sorry I misunderstood your comment, I thought you meant you weren’t seeing line breaks and couldn’t read this comment. I understand now lol
Word.
Why not suggest the communities you follow? I assume your friend has similar interests as you.
I bet OP invented this mysterious friend just to get some good recommendations!
!eternalplaylist@crazypeople.online - Music
!cool_rocks@lemmy.today - Cool RocksCool communities but niche. He’s isn’t into any of them.
TIL music is niche.
Whenever I recommend lemmy to friends, I point them to my feeds of non-politics, non-tech communities:
Nice feeds! I have added them to the Explore menu for everyone, now.
Wow, thanks!
Is there anything similar to this in Lemmy or one of its clients?
You can subscribe, follow and interact with other communities not on lemmy.world and other instances without making an account for each. I recommend piefed.social because their on boarding is awesome to get you started. You then can search for the communities suggested to easily follow them in piefed’s view
Start with All and begin subscribing and blocking as needed.
Start with All and begin subscribing and blocking as needed.
I’ve weirdly found that it’s even harder to curate ALL on the FV than it is on Reddit. The process of blocking takes a couple more clicks, and you’re only blocking a single community, not the group associated with that subject.
Also, there’s an unbelievable amount of niche communities that for some reason seems even more gargantuan than at the other place. I must have hundreds blocked by now, and my ALL feed is still as weird and unpredictable as ever.
I only block what will never interest me or is somehow flooding All. After about a week I found myself spending most of my time in my subscribed communities.
Unfortunately that doesn’t work at all for me, perhaps due to coming from different software / instance. Ah, the complications of using the FV…
Anyway yeah, subscriptions have been the way to go for me, rarely hitting ALL. Helpfully, when you sign up here, you can fill out a series of checkboxes, and PieFed.Social will auto-subscribe you to a bunch of relevant communities.
Fair warning if your instance isn’t defederated from lemmy.nsfw there will be a LOT of porn
You can also just block instances, I’ve got most of the porn ones and tankie ones blocked
historymemes@lemmy.world
Doesn’t matter what community they sign up for, they are all the same comments. Trump sucks and do you use Arch Linux?
The NSFW communities have very few serious discussions, probably because it’s harder to type with your left hand only, lol. And I’m not there either but probably some gaming communities?
Are there any free nsfw communities? I don’t object to them being paid—totally reasonable given the bandwidth required. Just wondering what options I have for my poor wallet.
Titties and dicks appear (blurred but still) on my feed all the time and I haven’t paid anything in Lemmy. 🤷
Blurred on feed but then available if you click through to the post?
Ofc, ofc. 👍
