Hello Lemmings (I have no idea what Lemmy users are called) I'm a reddit migrator. I'm still a little confused, but I'd like to learn. How do I find communities? If I want to discuss Warhammer or Steam games, or something like that, what's the best way to find that content? If it matters I am on the phone app.
If you found a community, for example via https://browse.feddit.de/, but get a 404 error when visiting it:
Try searching for the community with a bang prefixed: !nostupidquestions
This will "discover" the community for your instance. When coming from a big instance like lemmy.world this is probably rarely necessary. Only one lemming has to discover a remote community to unlock it for all other lemmings on the same instance.
But someone has to be the first, and that lemming must bang it.
On kbin.soxial it's as easy as going to the magazine list and searching for things you might be interested in. It'll show you mags across all hosters. Not sure if lemmy.world has any similar search.
To clarify, Magazines on kbin are simply Communities on Lemmy. And yes, I'm surprised you guys don't have a similar search function? It has some issues with case sensitivity but that's pretty much how I found the stuff I subscribed to.
If you don't have any specific content that you want, set your feed to All and sort by Hot or Top Day. Scroll it and if something sparks your interest go to the community where the post was made and subscribe.
If you are interested in specific topics, click search and type the keyword. In Jerboa search function only looks for communities, based on keyword, but in website you can set search to either posts, comments etc.
I just found out about this one, and it seems like by far the best one to me. Sorting, and you can set your home instance to make it easier to subscribe. Which... honestly how is that the other options don't have that stuff?
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