Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)
There are some things i recognize like news and such. Reddit was so ubiquitous that if i had a problem with just about any game i could find a subreddit. Here i am not at all sure how making federations or threads work. And things are still a little sparse. I am connected to beehaw. If i connect to another group will i see completely new communities or recreations of the standard ones?
Go to the communities page on here and it will bring up a list of communities. Select the ‘all’ tab and it will bring up all the communities hosted on here and on other instances that are linked with beehaw. So you may see a ‘Technology’ community and a ‘[email protected]’ community. The first one is the technology community hosted here on beehaw, and the second one is the technology community hosted on lemmy.ml.
Now beehaw users can’t make instances (as decided by the beehaw admins), but there are instances you can create your own communities. So you will definitely run across some more niche ones from those external instances in that communities page that you can access and subscribe/post to
You can go to https://browse.feddit.de to search for communities, and then paste the link into the search. If it hasn’t been connected to your server yet you’ll have to search it a second time for it to show up.