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Now that is a substantial amount of users on here now (from a particular source that looks awfully like Lemmy but is very corporate ewww). What are some tips and tricks for using lemmy or the fediverse in general to help those new users to get accustomed to this platform?

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[โ€“] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Search for the names of all the communities that you're part of on reddit and join the biggest two or three with the same name that you see here. Post to whichever is your favorite or whichever is biggest if you can't tell the difference in order to encourage consolidation.

[โ€“] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

If you are looking specifically for reddit replacements https://redditmigration.com/ is good.

For community discovery in general there's https://browse.feddit.de/.

In general there aren't enough features on Lemmy to have tips or tricks yet.

[โ€“] SHamblingSHapes@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, good advice, with suggested alteration to the end.

Free your mind from the expectation of consolidation into a single community per topic. Decentralization is a feature of Lemmy. Posts on whatever communities you've subscribed will show in your "subscribed" feed regardless, it doesn't matter if it's one community or ten so long as it's the content that interests you. When one community goes down, the other nine will still be there.

[โ€“] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I feel like there needs to be a balance. Sometimes two communities about the same topic have genuinely different flavors and make sense to keep separate. But other times it's just a lot easier and more productive to take people from ten little pools having the same conversation to one big one.