You are confusing seeing other instances with “ALL”. I just don’t want to see what I am not subscribed to. Curation of all this crap just makes it so much better. And focused for that matter.
OK you wont find things then. A lot of communities I like are not going to show up in ALL. I seek them out and sub to them. Why be so lazy, it only takes a few minutes? Or simply search for your interests.
I mean if what you are looking for is where people are the loudest and places that are the busiest then by all means stay looking at all.
Lemmy doesn’t have that many users and it also can have multiple subs that are the same category. So discovering those and choosing one, or both is up to you. Remember: there is no algorithm here, curation is up to you.
So precisely:
use the reddit to Lemmy sub finder if you are coming from reddit
search for things you are interested in using the community search - flyfishing for example.
click “browse communities” and you will get a list of all of them, glance through them and check the box to sub
Not that hard.
Also, use Scaled as sort occasionally. It will let smaller subs rise to the top of you list.
I default to Subscribed/New, but many of the subs I was in on Reddit don’t have active communities here, so I only see a handful of new posts a day. A couple of times a week I switch to All/Hot or All/Active as a way to find new communities, or just see what’s going on outside of my tiny bubble.
I get it. For what it is worth, I find contributing to the subs I care about does help spur conversation. Some people even seem grateful to have the ice broken and get people engaged. Small communities stay that way if you don’t nudge them along.
Also, every now and then I just browse all the communities (not the content or comments) just communities to see if there is anything I should add to my subscriptions.
But I get that the easiest way is just click “all” and go.
People use All?
as a person on a smaller instance, yes i like actually seeing things
You are confusing seeing other instances with “ALL”. I just don’t want to see what I am not subscribed to. Curation of all this crap just makes it so much better. And focused for that matter.
what’re you on about? how precisely would i find communities on other instances without browsing ALL? i’m not gonna manually search for things…
OK you wont find things then. A lot of communities I like are not going to show up in ALL. I seek them out and sub to them. Why be so lazy, it only takes a few minutes? Or simply search for your interests.
I mean if what you are looking for is where people are the loudest and places that are the busiest then by all means stay looking at all.
Lemmy doesn’t have that many users and it also can have multiple subs that are the same category. So discovering those and choosing one, or both is up to you. Remember: there is no algorithm here, curation is up to you.
So precisely:
Not that hard.
Also, use Scaled as sort occasionally. It will let smaller subs rise to the top of you list.
I default to Subscribed/New, but many of the subs I was in on Reddit don’t have active communities here, so I only see a handful of new posts a day. A couple of times a week I switch to All/Hot or All/Active as a way to find new communities, or just see what’s going on outside of my tiny bubble.
I get it. For what it is worth, I find contributing to the subs I care about does help spur conversation. Some people even seem grateful to have the ice broken and get people engaged. Small communities stay that way if you don’t nudge them along.
Also, every now and then I just browse all the communities (not the content or comments) just communities to see if there is anything I should add to my subscriptions.
But I get that the easiest way is just click “all” and go.
I do! I need to be more diligent about seeking out new communities and subscribing to them, but I’m an ALL sort kind of person at heart, I guess.
Certainly mixes things up compared to Local.
I just go to my subscriptions. Then sort by scaled.