Welcome to Lemmy! 🤗This website has helped me find the most popular communities and niche communities from all over the fediverse lemmyverse.net/communities
The first thing I recommend you do is get a feel for the vibe of other instances, with a more dedicated topic, and join those, rather than Lemmy.world or something.
Lemmy is at its best when your local feed has more topics along your personal interests, but you can search All for stuff outside your interests.
Funny communities and news ones are usually found in generalist instances such as lemmy.world or lemmy.ml but the most interesting ones are on specialised instances.
The best way to discover them is to go directly to the instance and scroll a bit on the local thread or to go to the community page (ex: lemmy.ml/communities).
Then come back to your instance to visit again or follow the communities you liked.
There is geographically or language specialised instances such as :
feddit.uk
feddit.it and most probably
feddit.[your country code]
but a few geographically/language specialised instances were creative with there name such as
aussie.zone
jlai.lu
midwest.social
There is also subject oriented instances for example
mander.xyz. Science oriented
slrpnk.net. Solarpunk oriented
lemmy.dbzer0.com. Allow content about piracy
and !piracy is probably the most follow community on the lemmyverse.
You can find community directly from your instance page or from a browser like :
browse.feddit.de
lemmyverse.net
The browser helps you find community’s names that were never connected to your own instance or specialised instance you didn’t knew about.
When connecting for the first time type the url lemmy.world/c/[community’s name]@[community’s instance], you’ll get an error but after refreshing the page you will have access to the community. But that’s not new-comers friendly as you’ll need another maneuvers to access post published before you connect your instance to the remote community. Still, if you are interested, I can explain you how to do it.
There is also politically oriented instances but some may be blocked by the administrators of your instance. You can check that on lemmy.world/instances.
Finally, if you want to test your options on Lemmy without spamming your favorite communities, you can do that here !testfediverse.
I think you responded to the wrong comment but I’ve saw others people recommandations for cats and beaver and I don’t remember what else and I’ve note them down.
I think there is also some !pet somewhere but I can’t find it again.
The non misogynistic ones. Good luck finding those. welcome to Reddit circa 2005 before hating women was considered not ok as it didn’t affect anyone’s bottom dollar. Freeze peaches and all that shit that goes with it.
There are instances and communities that are well-moderated and care deeply about such problems. I think for instance lemmy.blahaj.zone and beehaw.org. But don’t take my word for it, just try to look for an instance that aligns with your values. The more people choose such instances, the more people will gather around them by default :)
Most niche communities from R*ddit are pretty much dead here unless you are looking forward to being a regular poster yourself. This rather requires sticking to the lemmy.world open feed rather than creating a custom feed with your communities only, if you are looking to scroll a lot instead, of course. Just stick around a bit, see how often what communities and people reach the general feed, elect to block the ones that feel flooding your feed or not to your taste. Maybe give some regularly-posted communities that are previously not in your area of interest some chance before going on a mass block. This place does have a quality and rather genuine people, but in a limited scope.
Feels plastic cause it’s full of bots. I seriously hope the niche communities don’t get chocked to death with bots. But I also see that many went to discord… which I’m not sure if it’s an improvement TBH.
Yeah, I saw someone on Lemmy showing screenshots two posts that were copied exactly from like 8 months ago except for a single new legitimate comment. It’s wild what LLMs are doing to online interaction and honestly… this is just the beginning.
If you want to avoid specific instances, it’s best to go to an instance that defederates from those instances. That’s the power of the Fediverse - you get to choose an instance that aligns with your values and moderation style :)
Avoiding them myself is great, but long term I’d love do see the Fediverse succeed. We need to shut down propaganda if we want it to be viable. There’s no corporation or organization running the show, it’s us.
The way to shut down propaganda is defederation and diligent moderation. That takes some actions from admins and moderators, who as you note are mostly volunteers. So do your best to support your local mods and admins in doing that or volunteer yourself :)
TBH I just stick to the feed and block the communities I don’t want to see. Especially avoid anything on Hexbear or lemmy ml, those instances are CCP propoganda trying to convince the west to off each other and themselves.
I see so many comments like this across lemmy and so little offensive content from those instances that I’m really beginning to wonder who the actual propagandists are.
The block feature only hides posts from those instances communities, not comments (unless you block individual users, but then you have to block a whole lot of users).
Also users from those instances will still have an influence on your feed via their voting. For example if you think an instance is a source of political propaganda, they can still promote that political agenda via voting.
Defederation is a more effective solution if you want to avoid an instance.
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