I am new to Lemmy and I've been using Reddit for many years. I have subscribed to a large number of subreddits. is there any tool available that can suggest me all the lemmy communities alternative to all the subreddit I am subscribed to?
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Lemmyverse will let you search every community hosted by Lemmy instances that share data with it, which is most. If you set your home instance before you start clicking links they'll open on your home instance so they are easier to subscribe to.
Here's a recent post I put together with some more resources:
https://walledgarden.xyz/post/1600683
Edit- Also worth mentioning the Voyager interfaces offer a solution for this.
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Adding to "set home instance"
Below the filter and sort fields is a button for an instance filter.
Just to add semi-related, don't worry about communities having little to no recent activity. I once posted in a community where the last post was 6 months ago and got relevant comments from 5 people anyway, giving me exactly what I wanted.
Plenty of people are delighted when the community they forgot they subscribed to months ago suddenly has new content!
Thanks for this. Both are new to me so I added them to the help post.
Try to list the subreddits you can't find as similar communities here and we might direct you somewhere.
