I just made a Piefed.social account today. I’m very familiar with reddit, but after the API changes and all the bullshit that’s been happening with the site lately I want something different. How do I see which communities I’m a part of, the equivalent of subreddits I guess? Where do I go to find new ones? Do I need to be in a singe instance to participate? I’d really like to find the Lemmy equivalent of my favorite subreddits from reddit, but I simply don’t know how to do that.
Use the search function. It had more options, but you can search for communities in servers with which your instance is federated
The biggest issue you will encounter is parallel evolution. If you search for “linux” communities, you’ll find a dozen of them, all named “linux”, each on a different server. The naïve, easy way to choose is to look for the communities with the highest member count - but this is not always the best way to find the one you want to join. [email protected] will be full of people who bitch constantly about software that uses licenses other than GPLv3 and get downright nasty about people using MIT. Totally hypothetical, but you get my point - you have to peek into the communities and read some posts to differentiate their tone.
Browse “All” occasionally. Sort by “New.” Yeah, you’ll get a lot of furry porn, and a fair amount of OnlyFans fishing posts, but you’ll also find [email protected]!