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@realcaseyrollins @informapirata @piratepost The way it works throws me, I'm used to Reddit, just look up what you're interested in, and subscribe, something I can't do as Lemmy is decentralized.
@taur10 @informapirata @piratepost What are you interested in? The question here is likely whether or not what your interested in has any communities yet.
I made a ton of communities in #Lotide, perhaps they might be more your speed?
The #Lotide instance I use is narwhal.city
@realcaseyrollins @informapirata @piratepost Let's see, over on Reddit the ones I'm following that I check daily are:
Amazon of Deals
Canoo
Couriers of Reddit
Idiots in Cars
Kei Trucks
Roadie
RoadieApp
StLouis
Likely I can find some or all of these, but they'll be spread across servers, and that's where I run into problems, how do I find stuff? I'd also like to find an alternative to my Flipboard, while I do use it as my main news source, I also use it to share all the news that interests me, so finding or creating an equivalent to my books over there'd be nice.
There really needs to be some dedicated lemmy instances to gather/grow topical communities… I can’t quite wrap my head around why people set up topical mastodon instances rather than lemmys, given that local mastodon posts generally don’t stick to a topic.
Indeed. However, understand that Lemmy has like 100K people or so, while Mastodon is over 9 Million. Much easier to build a topical instance on a larger platform. Lemmy will have it's time soon.
@atmoicpoet@mastodon.social is creating a hosting platform that supports Lemmy called "Space Host". Once his platform releases, and it becomes much easier to run a Lemmy instance, we are going to see a lot of people here in the "Lemmyverse".