1 yr. ago • 96%

What is a good way for a new Lemmy user to browse and join communities?

There are directories like https://lemmyverse.net/communities but it’s not straightforward for new users to simply click on a community to join Are there any clients that have this onboarding workflow implemented well?

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Trending Communities [feddit.nl] gives a list of communities that have had increasing activity for the past week.

It's helpful for a quick overview of possible communities with active discussion, stats too.

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https://www.search-lemmy.com/

This one let's you choose the instance you are in so it makes the links open direct in that instance

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- Lemmyverse does too, top right home icon
  
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If you have the patience letting the drip of communities surface through your instances 'all' feed has been a good way to take in the growth.

I have an account I don't normally comment from I leave all the memes unblocked for killing time, otherwise it's been a lot of negative filtering and following interesting comments.

If you're self hosting that's a different problem.

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- Note that only communities someone on your instance has already subscribed to will appear in your "all" feed
  
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On Lemmyverse, there is the option to set your home instance (top right home icon), then the links open on your instance

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- this is the best way, and people (including me) not notice it from the start.
  
  should be a bigger button
  
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  Probably, something to bring up to the owners of the page I guess
  
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https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances great list of instances to help you pick

Sub rehab is very useful for finding subreddit alternative communities on the fediverse https://sub.rehab/

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Search on https://lemmyverse.net/communities

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- Thanks, is there a way to subscribe directly from that directory?
  
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  You can set your home instance in the settings. Then at least the links open the communities in your instance.
  
  Avoids copying and pasting and manually searching at least.
  
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  Not that I’m aware. I just type or paste sub@site.whatever into my Memmy search box and it pops up there.
  
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I noticed they also removed lemmy.world from lemmyverse.net so it isn't a very useful site anymore.

Edit: At the moment.

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- It's been temporarily removed due to API issues
  
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  I just noticed it was removed from lemmyverse too. For us non-experts, what do you mean by "API issues"?
  
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If you use the voyager app they have an option to migrate subreddits using your multireddit. It basically parses the multireddit and allows you to quickly search for communities that match your old subs. It gives you directions to do it. I found it very helpful.

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Look at which communities are popular or search for your interests.

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I would recommend just going to All communities and clicking subscribe on everything you like.

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I haven’t found one, but if you like !Classic Rock come and join us!!

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