Hi. I created a lemm.ee account and hope for a Reddit alt. I came to Reddit from StumbleUpon and Digg so I’m open to migrating to the next good thing.
I paid for Apollo and loved it. And I’ve found Voyager to be pretty close. So that’s cool.
I was able to migrate my list of subscriptions and find many similar communities and I continue to explore and subscribe to active communities on Lemmy.
But a few questions I can’t find answers to:
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Can I create a multireddit in Lemmy/Voyager? Like I want to keep NSFW out of my home feed in case my kids look over my shoulder while I’m casually scrolling, but would like to save some favorite nsfw subs in one place for “future convenience.”
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Lots of posts say, “Failed to Load Media.” Is that a common Lemmy thing? Or Voyager? Or my device?
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Do I need to subscribe to communities on multiple instances? Like I see there are a lot of Technology communities across various servers. Do those aggregate to one place? Or do I need multiple subscriptions until I find the instance that serves up the best content.
Thanks for your help!
- Alt account is probably the way to go
- A commonly used image host is blocked in a bunch of countries (https://files.catbox.moe) check if you can open this site
- They are separate communities, kinda like politics and politics2 on Reddit. They don’t aggregate jet but that option is WIP. My tip is go with communities not on Lemmy.ml and hexbear.net due to some questionable moderation in a bunch of communities on those
I usually look at subscription numbers on the communities to decide which one to post to, I imagine that over time there will be aggregations, splitting, recombinations and bitter factional war…
Subscriber numbers are misleading, because there are highly populated communities that were created during previous migrations, but were abandoned due to lack of content.
It’s the weekly and monthly active users numbers that indicate active communities.
And “Smart Sort” on lemmyverse.net is busted because it over prioritizes subscriber count.
