I really want Lemmy to work but I’m having a difficult time tracking different communities across different instances. It feels like I’m doing something wrong. I typically just land on the lemmy.world front page and scroll through there, and I see some interesting stuff, but I’d like to learn how to curate it a bit more
Try this: go into your user settings, change Type from Local to Subscribed and Sort type from Active to Hot (or New if you prefer that).
Then click on Communities on the top bar, switch the list from Local to All, and find communities you’re interested in, you can also search for specific names.
Avoid names ending in @beehaw.org if you see them, they defederated us so we can’t interact with them anymore.
When you find something you like, click on the community name to go to their page, on the right you’ll find the Subscribe button.
After you subscribed to enough communities, close lemmy and open it again, see if it’s better that way (it is for me).
Important note is that Hot is current broken in Lemmy leading to older posts getting boosted to the top in error. It’s currently being worked on for the next release.
What happened with beehaw?
Apparently some idiots from here think it’s fun coordinating a troll-attack on them and they don’t have enough mod power to deal with it, so they removed their connections with us and sh.itjust.works.
I’m not sure if I was the intended reply, but as someone with a Beehaw account I can say that this defed is intended to be temporary and at the behest of better mod tools and better moderation of the offending instances.
I answered the one asking what happened.
Anyway, I get it’s temporary, I’m not a mod but if they say better tools are needed, I believe them.
better moderation of the offending instances.
What does that mean?
Do they expect lemmy.world admins to police 25K people across 700+ servers? I don’t think that’s how it works.
Or do they mean that they reported harassers to our admins and they didn’t do anything about it?
As I understand it:
Three of the filters on the front page are “subscribed”, “local” and “all.”
Subscribed filtering is what you are looking for to have a curated front page.
Local is a front page specific to posts on your registered instance [in my case, any sub instance (is that their name?) post from Lemmy.world]
All is any Lemmy post across all instances
You gotta subscribe more, it helps you and others on your instance. I do 2 things- sort by new/all and subscribe to anything interesting, but that’s only what others on your instance already subscribed to. The other thing is to use a search tool to find specific interests across instances, I came across this - https://lemmyverse.net/communities
