• NickwithaC@lemmy.world
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    It’s not so much the communities as the number of posts, I open Lemmy and see posts I saw yesterday only half way down the front page.

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                I’m probably missing something easy, but where do you “just subscribe?”

                There are a few communities that show up in lemmyverse, but aren’t showing up when I search in my app (Jerboa)

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                  Open the link from lemmyverse in a browser tab and click Subscribe. If on mobile you might have to expand the sidebar first. Then go back to Jerboa.

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          You only need one home instance. So you’re on lemmy.world from what I can tell. If you go to their homepage and login, then click communities at the top, you can browse all the communities (subreddits). Just subscribe to whatever you want! Then later when you’re browsing you can sort by subscribed and it’ll be just those topics

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          Even beyond subscribing to other communities that are also on a Lemmy instance, you can throw a wider net and use some form of fediverse software to interact with different kinds of instances.

          I think Lemmy software may be a little more limited in this, as I haven’t had much luck subscribing to Mastodon users on my Lemmy accounts, but I can subscribe to Lemmy communities on Mastodon and Calckey. I haven’t really done much with it on Mastodon, but on Calckey I can see Lemmy posts from communities I’m subscribed to in my feed, and I can make a top-level reply to the post but I can’t read or reply to the comments (unless they’re replies to mine) without going to some version of Lemmy to view the rest of the post.

          Still, that makes it pretty convenient to scroll through my own Calckey as well as Lemmy, Mastodon, Kbin, Pixelfed, and seemingly basically whatever else I could want. Sure, sometimes I have to switch sites to engage with the content, but that’s as simple as clicking a link or at worst navigating to the post again on the site. With the pace of most instances, that’s not hard to do

          It’s also not oversaturated, so people will actually see and interact with what you’re posting, and yet if you cast a wide enough net you can get continuous content to read if you really want to.

          I guess the point is, the more you take it into your own hands the more it can do for you.

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      Subscribe to more communities. I have like 50 of them from many different instances and it’s always new content. Make sure to set filter to Last Day or Last 6 hours.

      Lemmy.world is the largest instance now I believe with tons of communities so start there.

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      Honestly, this was helped simply by subbing to a lot of different communities. Each day is a fresh feed. It’s not up to Reddit’s “every single refresh is a brand new front page” level, but it’s enough to be able to scroll for an hour or two each day.

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      Yep. R/Noita went private and moved to the discord I was already in, but Discord is a terrible replacement for Reddit. I don’t have time to read everything in the community to find anything in the community… So now I only have the comment section in FuryForged to find new discoveries in one of the most ridiculously complicated physics simulators I play.

      It’s an obscure enough community that I doubt it will reopen there, and I’d lose some respect for it if it reopened before Reddit actually listened to a single word we said.

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      Avid Guild wars 2 player here, I really do miss being on that subreddit. Since reddit was also big, it did allow developers to interact with their players a bit more directly and was a good way to get official info to them.

      In this specific case I added browsing the game forums instead of going on reddit, not much has changed except the lessened amount of ads on my screen lol.

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      Agree. Would be great to have some of them move over, WoW is very quiet here.

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    I miss the local subs for my city and other local communities around me. They were great for keeping up with what was going on. I can’t stand all the pissing and moaning on Nextdoor. There are a couple of Facebook groups but I refuse to install any Meta apps on my phone.

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      I have those but there seems to be several across multiple instances with no clear winner and all of them are pretty sparse. But I feel like that should improve with time.

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    Battlestations exists, but has no content. I just made the first post in order to help stir up some engagement! 😃

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    The subresdit /r/frugalmalefashion was really incredie for a while there, but it thrived in users posting good deals regularly and fair moderators keeping out inappropriate content (i.e. scams, predatory subscription services, and comments like “this isn’t truly frugal!”). /r/buildapcsales was the same way

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    Right now I am missing the hyper specific cat subreddits like catswhoyell and catsinbusinessattire. There are so many that I loved to revisit every 2-3 months and see what was there

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    The art subs, like r/art, graphic design, art nouveau, and all the AI art subs. I was mostly a lurker on those ones but they were really great eye candy.

    Also things like earth porn and the nature subs. Was nice to see cool places in my feed.

    And the local community subs. I think that will take a long time to develop (if it ever does). I used to get a lot of news on city events from Reddit and without Boost on my phone I’m feeling out of the loop

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    The subs for games like Street Fighter, the sub for fight sticks, the kind of semi-niche gaming communities that snowballed because of Reddit’s ubiquity