• Kerensky1101@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Same here. I like the idea of Lemmy but the decentralization makes it really difficult to find the content I want. Reddits centralization, while causing some problems, definitely made it easy to find communities. That lack of ease is what makes Lemmy not as easy to use for new people.

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      1 year ago

      there should be a “find the community” or something, where u can post ur niche and ppl will link where they discuss that

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        1 year ago

        There’s also the problem where I totally want to start a community (for example: Marble Racing), but I don’t know where a good home would be for it and I don’t think my home instance would be a good home.

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          does it really matter that much? If people search it up, it will pop up. Even better if they discover it via a link.

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            I think it does a bit. The obvious one would be for porn on general purpose instances. Alternatively, my primary instance for example is a bit of a niche one related to reading, so a sports or politics community could feel disjointed especially for the admins/mods who manage the community.

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        Have you checked out [email protected]? For some reason I don’t see it mentioned or linked to much, but it’s basically that, which I think would feel much more approachable to new people than pointing them to tools like Lemmyverse (as much as I do really appreciate it).

        Another good one for sharing communities you’ve stumbled across would be [email protected].