Community Search Tips

2 readers

1 users here now

This community is dedicated to helping Lemmy and kbin users find communities and magazines to participate in.

Post your questions, requests, and tips in this community. All discussion is good! The more we share about what's out there, the better the Lemmy experience will be for everyone.

Note: Please avoid using the shorthand link (links that begin with !) when linking to communities. That method can result in an error in small instances. Details here.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja

Discover Communities By Chance: Lemmy-Discover (stirante.github.io)

submitted 1 year ago by RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja to c/communitysearchtips@lemmy.ninja

0 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Searching through communities can be a daunting task. At latest count, there are over 15,000 communities to choose from. In addition, it’s common to pick communities that you are already interested in. This forms a bit of a bubble, where the content you are exposed to is the content you already agree with and like. So how do you push those boundaries and find new and diverse communities?

One way is to visit a random community. Lemmy-Discover makes this easy by giving you an interface that will show you exactly one community. You’ll see its statistics as well as a few posts and their associated comments. If the community isn’t for you, you can press the big red skip button and see another random community.

(Those of us who are of a certain age will recognize this immediately — it’s just flipping through the channels on the TV to see what’s on. How many great shows did you discover this way?)

It looks like Lemmy-Discover is designed to be an alternative front-end for Lemmy communities. It provides a “Follow” button that, if you create an account, is like subscribing to a community. But for our purposes, it makes a great Community discovery tool.

no comments (yet)

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

there doesn't seem to be anything here