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How do you find content on fedi?
Purely by chance. What I like most about the "Fediverse", as little as I care for the word, is that I keep stumbling across new accounts, communities, and posts that I never expected. That's why I don't think much of "recommendation lists". They're always subjective and prone to forming filter bubbles.
I just want to see more nerds and less ideological fetishism.
I mostly don't use Fediverse services outside the Threadiverse (lemmy/mbin/piefed).
For the Threadiverse:
http://lemmyverse.net/communities is an important resource. They spider all the Threadiverse instances and build a searchable community list.
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !newcommunities@lemmy.world have people post to promote their communities.
Looking to see where other users who put up interesting content also hang out.
Sometimes, people will have interesting recommendations that they stick in posts.
http://lemmyverse.net/communities is an important resource. They spider all the Threadiverse instances and build a searchable community list.
Small note: the main community page does not show Piefed communities
https://piefed.social/communities has "Active people" (per week) column and allows to search for communities in a similar way to Lemmyverse
@twoafros@sh.itjust.works
Thanks for sharing the links!
No problem. And just to make it clear, if you haven't done so before, if you find a community you like on lemmyverse.net, you'll want to copy the text with the leading exclamation mark, which you can do by clicking on that text on lemmyverse.net
say, for example, !foodporn@lemmy.world
and then paste it into the community search on whatever client or Web UI you use. That'll make your home instance connect to the instance where the community lives and learn about it, if it hasn't already. Your home instance is sh.itjust.works, which is decently-sized, so it's not as much an issue for you
for many communities, some user on sh.itjust.works will have already done this and subscribed to the community
but for users on smaller instances, it's more important.
To be brutally honest, I have only the slightest inkling as to what it actually is - I was just looking for a Reddit alternative. I signed up, entered my credits into the Boost android app and here I am. It's liked the Reddit experience I miss from years ago, except with less content but nicer people.
I occasionally go on community subscribing blitz on Lemmy and i have firefox addon that redirects youtube vids to peertube mirrors and sub there if i can.
I browsed the global feed for a few minutes every day and, if I saw something I like, I followed.
After a few weeks, I had a feed.
Now, most of my discovery is when someone I follow reposts.
If I ever get bored of my feed, I can always trawl global again.
A browser I guess?
