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I've been lurking for over a year and I finally made an account πŸŽ‰

Now that I can customize the communities I see I'm wondering, what communities are you part of/do you recommend?

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[–] Alk 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Instead of joining communities, I browse all and block communities I don't like. That way I am always aware of new or newly federated communities.

[–] EwonRael 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

good idea! I've already started blocking the german meme communities because I don't speak german

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I'm blocking you because it's annoying when people censor words...like PORN

[–] mke 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Lemmy has a languages setting that might be helpful here, but I never bothered to check what it actually does. Er, sorry. Just, it could be worth looking into.

Blocking certain country focused instances can help, too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

By default you see everything.

If you start to select languages (Ctrl+Click on desktop, not sure about mobile), you won't see non-selected languages anymore.

Be careful to keep Undetermined as most of the content isn't tagged.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah...

I changed the language and I thought I was shadow banned for a couple of weeks...

Not intuitive at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Indeed, definitely some improvement to be made there

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have joined over 220 communities. You want me to comment all that?

BTW I mod [email protected] and [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You want me to comment all that?

Nah mate, just share us your password to check the out personally πŸ‘€

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Welcome!

On my side

A bit more specific

There is a weekly thread on [email protected] that you can have a look at for some ideas.

You can also use https://lemmyverse.net/communities for suggestions, and set up your home instance using the house button so that they open there directly.

[–] EwonRael 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

amazing! thank you so much!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You are welcome!

Just found another one I forgot: [email protected]

[–] Rolando 3 points 5 months ago

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

Generally I browse "Subscribed | Scaled" and then if I run out I switch to "All | Scaled".

[–] recklessengagement 2 points 5 months ago

Honestly, none, I just sorta watch Hot and let whatever algorithm guide posts toward my feed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

For big communities there is no need, they will surface to all.

If you have some interests with specific community on lemmy give it a follow. There are lot of them with little traffic ~1 post/week, like [email protected] it is not dead just fewer posts compared to reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Here is a dump from my subscriptions list:

[email protected]

All Things Tom [email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

Ask [email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

Bike [email protected]

Casual Conversation @lemm.ee

Comic [email protected]

[email protected]

Do It [email protected]

Earth, Environment, and [email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

Film [email protected]

[email protected]

Food and [email protected]

Free [email protected]

Free and Open Source [email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]@lemmy.ml

[email protected]

Humanities & Cultures@[email protected]

I Made [email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

Lemmy [email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

Linux [email protected]

Linux [email protected]

Linux [email protected]

Linux Troubleshooting and [email protected]

[email protected]

Map [email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

Open [email protected] [email protected]

Operating [email protected]

Patient [email protected]

[email protected]

Reclaimed By [email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

Science [email protected]

Solarpunk [email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

Sublinks [email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]@lemmy.zip

The Signal messenger and [email protected]

Video Game [email protected]

Video Game [email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

Volt [email protected]

Volt [email protected]

World [email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

retro [email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

utility [email protected]

[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

diy@[email protected]

You probably mentioned me by mistake and meant: [email protected] ?
Have a nice one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Something went wrong there indeed. But I am not even sure how a mention of you got in there?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Probably aome autocomplete thing in the text editor, I dont know.
Anyway, hi.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago