I remember posting this question just after the Reddit exodus so went back to look at my stats from back then. According to the post I’d been on Lemmy for 12 days and had subscribed to:

• 121 Lemmy communities
• 42 Kbin magazines
• 163 total

That was just on this account though, and I have two accounts with fairly different feeds. So let’s say I was probably on a total of around 180-200 then across both accounts, and have been adding them at a slow but steady rate

That gives us a scientifically sound estimate of my current total subscriptions: a lot.

Rock and stone, my friend ⛏

Just don’t ever set foot in Brazil, ok got it.

Is this a thing that happens? Do I need to add it to my list of reasons I’m terrified of the sea?

Reposting from a couple days ago:

I’m legally obliged to shill the various crafting communities, my two most used are !knitting@lemmy.world and !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works but you can find lots more in the sticky thread in either of those.

Then there’s also !imadethis@lemm.ee which has been a bit quiet lately so if you’ve made something, go show it off!

• !ukcasual@lemmy.world
• !simpleliving@lemmy.ml and !simpleliving@lemm.ee
• !discworld@lemmy.ml
• !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
• !anarchychess@sopuli.xyz
• !artshare@lemmy.world
• !pixelart@lemmy.ml
• !zillowgonewild@midwest.social
• !solarpunk@slrpnk.net and !technology@slrpnk.net (actually pretty much anything on slrpnk.net)
• !rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
• !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works and !patientgamers@lemmy.ml
• !mathmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
• !potatoism@lemmy.world
• !crossview@lemmy.world and !parallelview@sh.itjust.works
• !radiolemmy@lemm.ee

The only times I’ve really been downvoting is if someone is giving out completely incorrect information, like in a support thread or something, and confusing matters. It’s not a personal judgement or anything, just trying to keep things clear for the person asking the question.

If I disagree with a comment, well no biggie. Sometimes it’s worth discussing like adults and sometimes it’s just a subjective opinion. If it’s offensive, I’ll report it and block the user.

Honestly, I can see why some people find it annoying but in my experience so far it’s been fine. Do a sweep on lemmyverse, sub to all the communities around a given topic, never really think about which one it actually came from when I see a post in my feed.

There are some quite niche topics that have been unnecessarily split, essentially just because people want to be in charge rather than joining forces, but that’s people for you and railing about it isn’t gonna get us anywhere. From an end-user pov, subscribing to multiple has been fine.

Came into this thread wondering “who the hell wears belts?”. Then saw everyone in here was taking belt wearage as a given. Then looked over at my husband and saw he’s wearing a belt.

TIL, all men apparently wear belts and I just never noticed before.

I see Sir PTerry, I upvote.

And hey, just sliding this totally smoothly into the conversation, did you all know we have !discworld@lemmy.ml (Lemmy / Kbin)

*sidles out awkwardly*

Oh lord, ok now things make a lot more sense 🤦‍♀️

Can I ask how you were “introduced” to .world? Just been wondering why that’s the one everyone is moving to atm.

Yup, it’s been extremely effective. I got engaged at the end of last year and certain types of people seemed genuinely horrified that I didn’t get a diamond ring.

Anecdotally though those tended to be older folks so I think maybe it’s losing effectiveness and younger people are seeing how absurd and arbitrary the whole thing is.

Pretty great tbh. The tricky thing with being an early adopter is you kind of have to be the change you want to see, but I’m old enough to feel no shame about just barging into places and starting new threads as needed.

So far started two accounts on two different instances (I like to keep different subjects somewhat separate) and had really cool interactions on both.

Obviously there are a few UX issues, trying to sub to remote communities is kind of a nightmare, but hopefully I’ve subbed to enough that other people on my instance will find it a bit easier to find them through search.