I know this is the hot topic right now but let’s not let Lemmy’s default feed JUST be about the Reddit changes. Seek out your hobbies and comment/vote/post <3
In my opinion that will do more for refugees.
I’ve found a few communities like those I followed on Reddit, but it’s quite depressing how quiet they are. Hope more people make it over.
Double check your profile languages are set properly. Almost every community off .world looked dead to me at first, but then I realized it was filtering every post flagged with a language I didn’t have and .world doesn’t give you English by default.
The communities are still tiny, but it was a major help.
I’m looking for baking, woodworking, and diablo4. Point em out of you know em
https://lemmy.world/c/woodworking@lemmy.ca for woodworking.
You can search by community, even from other instances!
https://lemmy.world/search?q=diablo4&type=Communities&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll
I’ve already joined several communities relevant to my interests and have been posting and commenting in some (I’m still more of a lurker than an active user, I might only make a post and/or a few comments a day, or even a week, but I’m here). In case you might be interested:
Gaming, emulation, handhelds, and retro gaming:
- !games@lemmy.world
- !gaming@lemmy.ml
- !sbcgaming@lemmy.ml
- !retrogaming@lemmy.world
- !linux_gaming@lemmy.world
- !patientgamers@lemmy.world
- !patientgamers@lemmy.ml
- !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
- !3ds@lemmy.world
- !emulation@lemmy.ml
- !emulation@lemmy.world
- !emulationonandroid@lemmy.ml
- !handhelds@lemmy.world
- !pcgaming@lemmy.ml
- !pcgaming@lemmy.world
- !simracing@lemmy.ml
Books and eReaders
Technology
- !devops@lemmy.ml
- !technology@lemmy.world
- !technology@lemmy.ml
- !sysadmin@lemmy.world
- !sysadmin@lemmy.ml
Miscellaneous interests
And other instances
Lemmy.world is getting hugged to death
I’m still getting used this fedi system of things. I couldn’t make an account on Lemmy, but I can on Kbin. I wasn’t expecting to see Lemmy posts here so it was a nice surprise
So im on mobile and I still haven’t figured out instances. How do I change instances? Is changing instances even a thing or is it too late because I already signed up on lemmy world?
You don’t need to change anything, you can subscribe to communities in other instances and they’ll all be in your subscribed feed.
Ed: with exceptions
The exceptions might be enough to make someone want to at least have an alt account, IMO. (For anyone new, currently, one of the big exceptions is that Beehaw is currently not connected with Lemmy.world, though the leaders of the instances have been talking about it, and they plan to reconnect when some technical wrinkles have been ironed out. So that is definitely temporary. You can participate with both if you are on most other instances, it’s just direct connection that currently isn’t happening).
Other reasons include being able to quickly switch if your instance has technical difficulties, and being part of the instance that has your favorite communities. But yeah, +1 on not having to be part of every instance that hosts a community you like. That’s the beauty of federation!
Right now, if you want to have an account in another instance, you need to go make a new account in that instance, which is totally fine, so go ahead. Mastodon allows direct account migration, but as far as I know, Lemmy doesn’t have that function yet. (And welcome to the Fediverse! :3 )
Not too late at all. To change instances however, ypu need to register on that instance and do a new account. There isn’t a way to switch instances on one account. Many are hoping there will be at one point a functionality to export stuff from one account to another but I have no idea how realistic that is.
Ah ok cool, i have another question, how many instances are there, too many to count or just a handful? Which instance is best to use ATM to save lemmy.world from being overloaded?
