I’m assuming this instance will only host some topics, which is all good. (Thank you for doing this at all!)
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How do I find topics I’m interested in? For example, I liked r/shortcuts but don’t know where I’d find that in the fediverse.
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If topics are hosted at many different instances, then even if technically anyone can participate in ones hosted elsewhere, does that imply that they’ll all have their own version of r/funny etc? And they’ll never achieve as much scale?
(I do realize that reddit also allowed for that redundancy, and it worked just fine… I guess I’m wondering how that challenge/opportunity PLUS some aspect of tribalism would play out…)
Cheers!
For what it is worth I found reading this very helpful in terms of “getting” the federation: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/federation_getting_started.html
Thinking of it a bit like email helped clear some things up for me and how I can interact with all the instances from lemmy.ca (or any other arbitrary instance)
- this is a good place to get started, it basically let’s you search through all the communities across a bunch of instances. https://browse.feddit.de/
- Yes, that could/does happen. Sometimes the mods of a community will “merge” with another instance and just tell everyone to join the other community on a different instance. unfortunately there’s currently no way to transfer over the content, however.
not sure if I really answered your question for #2, but i’m not sure if there are any easy answers for that.
edit: i really should make a FAQ or something linked from the main sidebar that links to the feddit community browser, since that seems to be one of the first questions new users ask for.
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Check out https://lemmy.ca/c/communitypromo or the matrix room that is rss bridged to there (in sidebar on that sub) see what ppl are advertising, ask for sub recommendations etc.
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Sorta most ppl use beehaw, lemmyml and lemmygrad and those have the biggest say c/funny s. It’s basically like having r/funny1 r/funny2 etc.
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browse.feddit.de/ afaik this is the best sub finding tool
Search for communities here: https://lemmy.world/search/
Or just browse: https://lemmy.world/communities/
