Ive been on reddit for more than a decade. Kinda bittersweet, but its not the first time I have moved on from an internet site. I just cant support reddit and sucking up all my posts for AI purposes. Feels terrible and spammy. Ive been a reddit premium holder for many many years.

Anyways, what communities do you recommend?

  • AGD4@lemmy.world
    40·
    9 months ago

    Welcome to Lemmy!

    I found that a large number of communities have been named after popular, and less popular, subreddits. So I found them easy to find. There was an old r/Redditalternatives post that has a decent range of communities to start out, which I’ve copied below. It is similar to the default subreddits.:

    *Note:*The “World” hyperlink takes you to the Lemmy.World communitiy.

    General

    News/Politics

    Pets and such

    Gaming

    TV and Music

    Pics and Art

    Technology and Science

    Sports

    Others

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
    35·
    9 months ago

    Just switch between all and subscribed, and subscribe to communities you like. It won’t be long before you have a decently curated subscribed list.

    Don’t be afraid to block communities so they don’t show up in All.

    You should expect things to work more like the early Reddit days when there weren’t a lot of subreddits.

    • KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee
      231·
      9 months ago

      I want to stress that you are expected to block communities you’re not interested in.

      There’s no content curation between instances (an instance is like a niche mini-reddit, but seamlessly connected to this one), so you will end up with US Politics next to Furry porn, next to Star Trek memes, next to NZ local news, next to sports statistics, next to AI Porn, unless you start blocking.

      Upside is you can get great science content, AND local news, AND your favorite porn, AND your brand of shitpost/memes in your feed/subscriptions without any hassle.

      • TheFriar@lemm.ee
        7·
        9 months ago

        So. Much. Furry. Porn.

        I e basically gotten to a point where my subscriptions make up such a long list of things I’m even tangentially interested in that I don’t even browse all anymore. I locked so much of the furry porn, but maybe opening all of the communities to block them manually made my feed think I was into it?

        • Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works
          91·
          9 months ago

          Lemmy doesn’t cater the All feed to you like other social media platforms - it doesn’t take into account which posts you open, which posts you upvote, etc.

        • Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          4·
          9 months ago

          It’s almost all on a couple instances. I don’t remember if lemmy supports instance blocking yet, but several apps do, so it’s a lot easier to block that way.

          • Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works
            31·
            9 months ago

            Lemmy supports instance blocking as of version 0.19. Some clients also support instance blocking for pre-0.19 instances.

        • Carlo@lemmy.ca
          2·
          9 months ago

          There’s no algorithm feeding you content on Lemmy, which I think most of its denizens regard as a good thing. I certainly do. You’ve got to self-curate! Of course, some of the curation occurs at the instance level, with admins defederating other instances. But you’re free to make accounts on any number of instances, or even host your own! I think Lemmy’s really grown on me.

          And yeah, there’s lots of furry porn, if you’re into that.

      • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        I started an alt account on here for the porn subs and went to a porn specific instance, and my god, that was a lot of blocking, almost not worth the effort compared to what I have on my Reddit porn account.

        • KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee
          3·
          9 months ago

          My biggest peeve is people who start many dozens of porn starlet comms with a handful of posts, or celebrity stalking comms with a handful of posts, or the myriad US sports teams fed by some bot.

          I wish there was a way to just block whole categories of comms, now I’ve had to resort to blocking the user starting them, which seems like overkill.

          • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
            31·
            9 months ago

            My biggest pet peeve is when an up and coming thot takes one pic and spams it everywhere.

            I end up blocking a ton of content creators as a result of that. I don’t need to see your same exact pic in 20 different communities.

          • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            9 months ago

            There are tons of moe-related anime communities that annoy the hell out of me. It’s insane and stupid af.

    • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      9 months ago

      This is pretty good advice. Also, by “early Reddit days“ they mean 18 years ago, “early Reddit days,” not, “when you were new to Reddit.“

    • boogetyboo@aussie.zone
      5·
      9 months ago

      To add to this, block users too. The community is so small here that you start to recognise names of annoying people and trolls. I’m all for a robust discussion, but if I know someone is always going to argue in bad faith or they’re literally here just to stir shit, it’s just easier to block them. Didn’t really work with Reddit, but here it’s got a decent impact.

      • wellee@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 months ago

        I’ve blocked so many users who ONLY post negative news stories. And porn.

        I use different sites for those, tyvm.

      • Vespair@lemm.ee
        2·
        9 months ago

        I’m not gonna name names, but imo Lemmy already has a couple of its own Gallowboob-types who just mass repost any and every shitty meme they see to multiple communities, and have already gotten high off their minimal Lemmy-celebrity status. I get Lemmy needs content, but personally I have no interest in seeing Lemmy just become a place for Reddit hand-me-down memes. So yeah, there are definitely a few users that blocking them will significantly improve your Lemmy experience.

        edit: typo

      • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
        0·
        9 months ago

        Unless yee be thee knights who shan’t let the filth slide 🫡 not without a fair comment back.

        It’s not everybody’s job!

        But if your mental health can take it, not blocking anybody should make this place more inviting to others, especially new users. (Quick example would be a news story about a politician where there are only a few top level comments which all miss the mark. If I see them, I can call them out, which means a newcomer perusing the comments Is more likely to think Lemmy a place for high-quality discourse.)

        • boogetyboo@aussie.zone
          3·
          9 months ago

          Like I said, it’s repeat offenders that I block. I’m not blocking everyone I disagree with our anything like that. There’s some edgelord Reddit behaviour occasionally and I’d prefer that stayed back there.

          • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            9 months ago

            Haha oh yah.

            Well, the very worst of the worst are the #1 folks I’ll try my best never to block. The more prolific the moron, the more impact I can have as a part of the chorus of sanity!

            Cheers :)

    • Lemonparty@lemm.ee
      11·
      9 months ago

      Just to piggy back you can also block entire instances, which becomes more useful when using discovery sorts like scaled. Like if the entire instance is in a language you don’t speak, block that shit!

  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
    22·
    9 months ago

    Honestly, the communities right now are so small I can’t really recommend them. I just browse all.

    I miss reddit because you could have an extremely niche community with 10,000 people contributing. It’s hard to get 10 people going here.

  • Swordgeek@lemmy.ca
    20·
    9 months ago

    I was on reddit since 2006, and left a year ago.

    Lemmy pretty much sucks because of a lack of content. The communities are there, but they’re…sooooo quiet.

    Join the communities you’re interested in and ENGAGE!

  • SSTF@lemmy.world
    19·
    9 months ago

    I think that hobby communities here can all benefit from having more members. If you have interest in starting out in any of these communities I am always around, and I know there is a small but dedicated base here.

    [email protected]

    [email protected]

    [email protected]

    [email protected]

    The Star Wars community is a place I have a personal interest in making somewhere positive to talk about the parts of Star Wars people really enjoy. I’m happy to see that it has started to take off more over time.

    [email protected]

    Communities about history and oddities are also places where kids and core members have really done a lot to make the community a place with a foundation.

    [email protected]

    [email protected]

  • laverabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    9 months ago

    Lemmy is very small in comparison, although every time reddit manages to do another silly thing Lemmy grows leaps and bounds. It’s a slow investment in a better internet, and it’s going to take a long time to slowly show the world that corporations don’t have to control everything on the internet.

    That being said I’m partial to [email protected] , it’s rockin’ (…and climbin’, and glidin’)

  • fubarx@lemmy.ml
    14·
    9 months ago

    Just wanted to thank everyone recommending communities to subscribe to. I thought I had a good mixture already. Discovered a dozen new ones just based on the comments here!

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
    122·
    9 months ago

    To be honest, I doubt that any kind of wiping posts from reddit at this stage will help with this AI deal, before the deal was made, Reddit probably took a snapshot of the database, and is selling that.

    Why would they risk user’s sabotaging their big payday? Also, doing it this way makes it much easier to quantify the data they are selling since they are working with a static database dump and not a live database that keeps changing.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      10·
      9 months ago

      The historical snapshot is not worth that much because it is already available for free, there are torrents etc. The deal is iirc an ongoing payment for access, which will be relevant because AI trained on old data is always going to be stuck in the past.

      • stoy@lemmy.zip
        2·
        9 months ago

        Ah, I missed it was an ongoing payment, I thought it was a single payment for a db export, then it makes sense to erase comments

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
    133·
    9 months ago

    I just want to say that creating a precedent of not allowing AI models to train on free content essentially means that when the models get cheap enough for average joes to train their own, average joes won’t be able to.

    We’ll have to use the models owned by huge corporations with deep pockets, because those will be the only legal ones.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      16·
      9 months ago

      Also, if people think that Lemmy posts won’t be trawled by content farmers looking to train their AI, I’ve got a bridge to sell them.

      Reddit’s deal is about locking content away from trawlers until they pay for it. Here, it’s free for all of them. They can even set up their own servers and the fediverse will deliver it to them in real time.

      • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
        9·
        9 months ago

        Also, if people think that Lemmy posts won’t be trawled by content farmers looking to train their AI, I’ve got a bridge to sell them.

        Yeah that’s the thing, part of the reason why I’m so confused. Reddit can literally just crawl any posts on Lemmy, it’s exactly the same in that sense. Public is public, after all.

        • intensely_human@lemm.ee
          2·
          9 months ago

          That’s a sort of realpolitik view of the web, based on using tech and engineering convention to control information flow on the web.

          But the web standards we’ve used to regulate things aren’t in agreement with the new legal framework people are trying to implement, and if we allow them to make their legal argument unopposed, they will add new layers to the tech to change web standard behavior into dystopian centrally controlled network behavior.

          I agree the web is an open platform, and I agree that copyright law is clear. But these people are not operating on trying to follow existing rules. They’re trying to create new rules, and they have the power to do so.

          And no, they do not RTFM . They think a greenfield rewrite is the best move for society, because they have zero respect for the engineering decisions of yesterday, not for the challenge or the value of maintaining existing systems.

    • MarsAgainstVenus@fedimav.winEnglish
      41·
      9 months ago

      Maybe I just haven’t had enough coffee yet, but I’m having a hard time determining which side you’re on. Are you saying it’s good that reddit is doing this?

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
        61·
        9 months ago

        I see myself as advocating for one set of ideas out of a sea of ideas and an ocean of such sets. Sides are for basketball games.

        Generally speaking, I’m a libertarian but to me the word is about liberty not lack of responsibility.

        I’ll take:

        • UBI
        • Free drugs
        • Corporations competing with one another to provide basic necessities
        • Personhood granted liberally. When it doubt, give it rights
        • AI being trained on copyrighted material
        • AI or its owner being taken to task when the AI publishes copyrighted material verbatim without attribution
        • A free market specifically because freedom allows the little guy to get ahead before the big guy builds the mechanism to keep him down
        • Simple government
        • Red commits
  • 𝐘Ⓞz҉@lemmy.world
    8·
    9 months ago

    We need to save people from reddit. Ask other users to join Lemmy. People who create memes should flood Facebook, instagram etc with memes to move to Lemmy