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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Does anyone know of communities where the posts are many paragraphs of OC selftext with the comments discussing it? I don't really care what the content is, but that's for format I'm looking for. So far it's just links, cat pics, and memes...

[–] Tots 37 points 1 year ago

Agreed! I loved communities like AITA, relationship advice, etc... on Reddit.

[–] Madbrad200 29 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is still in that early link aggregator stage, Reddit was like this too for awhile.

as the saying goes, be the change you wish to see...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You may want to check out tildes.net -- great community, totally text focused experience. I find that tildes complements lemmy well, and end up on both (in addition to a few other sites) to get a well rounded aggregation/discussion experience.

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[–] UhBell 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Best of redditor updates was my favorite of these, even if most of them were probably made up.

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[–] cod 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shameless plug for my community [email protected] which I think is quite neat. Best gaming community imo

[–] JingJang 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a great community.

The Lemmy community is far better than the subreddit

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Almost any community named "cat" or "dog". People should post more pictures of their happy non-human family.

Please. I need a way to break up the solid pages of awful global news in my feed, and I haven't got any of my own to hug.

edited to add: here's a list of cat communities , if there are other lists for other animals let me know.

Some other animal communities I subscribe to (not exhaustive):

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And I’m doing my part!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

So sweet. Please spread the joy to your choice of cat community too!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I appreciate you. All three of you. And I really like the sunflower scratching post too!

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

My fiancΓ© got it, as she loves sunflowers. And we appreciate you too!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn't need to block communities when I first started lemmy, but then predictably became necessary as time passed so went block crazy and now feed is easier again to try and find intersting communities when browsing all over news agregators.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the thing though, I do want to know about the topics and events, they're important and have huge consequences. But previously I was relying on nice things from communities I enjoy hearing from to space the more painful content out.

I have learnt that nice content requires a lot more activity if it stands a chance against the sheer volume of news created. But I also know there are lots of people here who have nice content to share that would benefit us all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to, but I've switched entirely over the RSS after years of relying on places like reddit for news. It's still the same news sources, but I noticed now seeing all the articles released that day how much stuff is cherry picked to submit that has the best chance of gaining traction due to alarmist headlines. So seeing a lot more of the headlines without the community algorithm that determines what is shown.

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[–] shiroininja 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do people block communities instead of using the subscribed feed? It feels like too much work. Did people really browse /r/all or the front page of reddit that much? That sounds like a nightmare. No wonder people complained about the mass of low effort posts. You're subjecting yourself to them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

People are trying to find new communities to subscribe to. New has been a good way to find them.

As for Reddit that's what amazing browser extensions like RES and third party browsers like RiF were for to filter out content by blocking subs, keywords, urls, and flairs, which made /r/all a pretty pleasant experience over default.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With the death of reddit, the only thing i mourned was the loss of r/196 but now I have [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve been seeing this in the All section… what is it?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is a meme community that is LGBT oriented and left-leaning

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Ahhh this makes a lot of sense! Thank you πŸ™

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

World’s finest queer shitposting

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[–] Madbrad200 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I made a list of good casual Lemmy communities recently that you might find helpful :)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I appreciate they aren't all from the same instance!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[email protected]

Piracy db0

All lemmynsfw because named people and hentai.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I happen to like [email protected]

Probably because I am a mod there. :-)

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[–] TeaHands 13 points 1 year ago

I see we're all shilling the communities we mod, which makes sense if you think about it. So in that vein:

For more gamedev-related communities we've got a sticky post here, and for more crafting communities of all shapes and sizes there's one here!

Apart from those I've been hanging around in [email protected] since both my and its very first day here on Lemmy. Like the name suggests, basically just casual UK chatter without the scourge of politics. Lots of moaning about the weather.

[email protected] could do with more Pratchett fans finding it, it's been pretty dead for the last month (not entirely surprising though as the subreddit wasn't huge either).

And another shoutout to [email protected] because LOL.

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[–] wilberfan 8 points 1 year ago

Other than the ones we mod, you mean? 🀭

[–] lefty7283 6 points 1 year ago

But if a plug but [email protected] if you like space pics taken by amateurs

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] expatriado 6 points 1 year ago

the one that is up

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] RickAllensLeftArm 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[email protected] is pretty fun. Just be sure to sort by new.

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