Just curious how everyone operates to find replacements of subreddits! For instance, I’d love to find an MSP lemmy instance, as well as instances related to things like music festivals, fishing, offroading, colorado hiking, and a gang of other topics! I know I can search via keywords, but there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of active Lemmy instances for some of the more niche things I’m into. Any suggestions would be awesome!
These are some communities to find new and active communities:
You can search instances and communities with https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Thanks for introducing me to this resource! This is exactly what I was looking for
For voyager app: search > explore > sort by scaled (or any of the other sort options). Or just hit search and start typing
Very nice! Long time Voyager user but never came across this function.
Well, some of them just don’t have enough population to get much activity. In some cases, it might be that nobody has made a community, or that people who are interested haven’t found the community.
If you aren’t already doing it, I’d use lemmyverse.net. When you search on a lemmy instance for a community, it only searches through the communities that that lemmy instance knows about. Instances without a large user population tend to have a limited view of the Threadiverse. The lemmyverse.net guys have a bot that keeps re-indexing the whole Threadiverse.
Your home instance is…hey, another lemmy.today user! So, lemmy.today is a small instance, and it could easily not know about other communities out there.
If you’re not already, hit:
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Can click to copy the community name (e.g. !fishing@lemmy.ca). Then search for that in the Lemmy Web UI. It may tell you that your instance doesn’t know about it, and ask if you want to trigger a search. Click “yes” and your home instance (in this case, lemmy.today) will go to talk to the remote one (in this case, lemmy.ca), and pick up information about the community.
Once — if — you subscribe to a remote community, your home instance will start to get posts from it. Have to have at least one user on your home instance subscribed for that to happen.
EDIT: If you are subscribed to a community that doesn’t have activity, posting helps – a lot of people are willing to comment, but won’t go out and submit posts. And there’s a community used to help promote communities, !communitypromo@lemmy.ca, which is aimed at helping encourage people to find communities, if you think that you’ve got a good one and want to encourage other people to head over there.
Thank you so much for the detailed reply! You’ve given me a lot of information to begin researching :)
No prob, fellow-home-instancer!
Is the instance really that significant? I’m aware mod policies and defederation has an effect, but the good stuff tends to correlate with individual communities. At least from what I’ve seen.
And communities seem to be best found by reading /all.
Just post in asklemmy until someone tells me to go away.
I think … I … well
doesn’t the LSD help?
The local aspect isn’t there for most of us.
As a somewhat regular user of the Colorado outdoors, I hope we get a Colorado Hike & Bike community. I know there’s at least a few of us because we’ve discussed Denver biking in the fuckcars community before.
As far as finding replacements, my advice is don’t limit yourself by platform when finding equivalents, but focus on the quality and type of the community.
To clarify,
Early on I kind of mapped centralized and federated social media pairs, Reddit-Lemmy, Facebook-Diaspora, Twitter-Mastadon, etc.
Turns out, that was a limiting mindset.
The best basket-weaving group might be a Mastadon hashtag. The best Lego minifigure painting content might be on Pixtagram, and we all know he best place to ask a question is not askreddit, but asklemmy!
I was going to leave a snarky reply saying “By going to reddit”, but you said you mentioned reddit in your post already. Unfortunately, Lemmy just doesn’t have the population to sustain niche communities. You might find them but then realize there are a only few old posts and no real activity.
I was thinking this might be the case unfortunately, but it makes sense. Thanks for the confirmation, I also found a resource to find Lemmy communities from other responses, but thanks for helping me quell my expectations! I’m sure as Lemmy grows, I might find (or even create) those niche instances
Wait until the first attempt implodes and it makes the rounds in the drama communities with a link to the mk2.
I did not claim it is a good system, but it is very successful.
