I did the boomer move, trying figure out how to use the fediverse and I made a account for each instance. I realize I didn’t need to do that and made one here. It’s nice to see things like Gardening, enviroment, city subs, etc ANY social media is a constant eye rape of American politics. Not my problem.

  • Treevan 🇦🇺English
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    1 year ago

    I start “Local>New”, then “Subscribed>New”, then “All>Top (whichever hour I feel like)”.

    Local gives me Australian stuff (as long as Aussie Zone focuses on Australia), Subscribed gives me my interests, and All is chaos with some good stuff inbetween. Turning off NSFW helped with the mess significantly.

    If you read something like this, you can see how varied the federated servers can be (and that’s a niche list, about as niche as it can get). At the bottom of the post are 2 browsers you can use to check out communities all over.

      • Treevan 🇦🇺English
        2·
        1 year ago

        https://lemmyverse.net/ is the one I’m talking about. You can use that to improve your subscribed list over time.

        Since community creation has gone mental all over with people trying to recreate reddit (we have a chance to build something better than reddit 1.5!), I’m finding it difficult to find good communities so far.

        Perhaps we should keep a list of related Aussie communities in a Meta thread here, if other people see posting from aussie.zone users, it might make some of the communities here the default ones in the early days to prevent dilution as the user base slowly increases. This is the greatest risk I think, tens of servers or communities with 1 or 2 posts each scaring away new users that are on the fence. One community with 40 posts and comments looks much better.