How to find matching communities? : reddit

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When coming from reddit, one has a list of subreddits and is probably looking for similar communities. Could we help that search somehow? It is harder than on reddit because matching communities are distributed across multiple instances.

Would it make sense to maintain an awesome list? Or a separate community "looking for community"?

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[–] Barbarian 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In terms of community mods advertising their new stuff, there's [email protected].

It is harder than Reddit for sure, but a lot of problems are growing pains. I'm actually hoping that in a few months, once things calm down and people have a good idea how things work, papercuts are fixed and communities stabilize, that we have a good mix of topic instances and regional instances, and people go to the communities on instances specialising in them.

In other words, I'm hoping that people stop treating lemmy.ml as the "main" instance, and go to places like https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com for gaming communities, https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech for music artist & genre communities, https://lemmy.studio for music creation and instrument communities, https://pathfinder.social for pathfinder stuff, etc etc.

TL;DR: It's understandable that people are going crazy with communities right now, but I honestly hope that the "main" communities that eventually win out are on instances specialising in them.