I’m sorry, is this the place to ask? Are they just called “communities”? Not sub…lemmys?

I wanted to curate something like old-Reddit for my front-page but I’m having trouble finding any sidebar lists of related communities. Do I just have to search and add each one individually if they’re here? Does it matter if it’s ‘local’ or ‘all’?

I’m using Connect for the moment. Thanks in advance!

EDIT - you guys are awesome!

  • XbSuper
    16•1 year ago

    I’m in the same boat as you. First thing I recommend is getting an app for it (I’m using connect, and loving it). Then just going through ‘all’ and subbing to what you like, and blocking what you don’t. It’ll take a while to curate it to your liking, but so did reddit.

    • vlad
      5•1 year ago

      I’ve got Jerboa on Android but it’s the same experience from the website. Find the community search and just type something in. You’ll see multiple instances of the same topic. I just subbed to every single one. I also chose an instance that didn’t block any other instance. Some instances attract certain kinds of people and then instances start blocking each other. So I chose one that didn’t block anything because I want that choice for myself.

      • XbSuper
        5•1 year ago

        That’s fair. I don’t fully understand the whole “instance” thing, but I’ve heard some block more than others.

        • vlad
          4•1 year ago

          A lot of people use the email analogy. So, there’s a different instances with different names. Each instance has communities like “news@lemmy.world” and “news@lemmy.ml”. My account is on another instance from those two, but I can see communities from all other instances. Unless their instance blocked mine, at which point their users cannot interact with me, and I can’t see their posts.

          So, if you’re looking for “news”, you can look up that work in the community search and sub to multiple ones. The down side is you’ll often see duplicate posts. I hope they figure out a way to combine posts. But idk how they could automate that process without it becoming a shitshow. The up side is that if lemmy.world goes down, you can still access the rest of the “federation”. Unless your account was on the instance that went down. That’s another thing I wish could be solved.

          • XbSuper
            2•1 year ago

            So basically, this is the equivalent of multiple smaller versions of reddit coming together to be a viable replacement?

            • vlad
              1•1 year ago

              Yeah, basically. It’ll be interesting to see how this develops.