Hi, I just found my way here recently from Reddit and being told that Lemmy may be better. I have been approved by the admin here very quickly and I’m just starting to figure things out.

The Reddit avatar I had was dressed in a koala costume from a year or two ago since I found koalas to be cute and was looking into any Subreddits on protecting koalas due to them being listed as endangered, and have decided to call it Konala Koala.

At the moment, I’m not sure if I’m going to see any Sublemmies on similar topics or not show up here, but I have included a picture of my Reddit avatar here to find out if there is some way of using it here.

Also, I had 16,400 Coins on Reddit that I’m about to lose as of the end of tomorrow since they appear to be doing away with that as well.

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Welcome!

    Lemmy will be different from Reddit, sometimes in good ways and sometimes in annoying ways (mainly because it’s still being built, there are a lot of people working on the code and planning behind the scenes). Feel free to make more posts like this as you think of questions or have issues.

    For the communities themselves, try searching here: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

    I didn’t see anything for Koalas, but you could try things like “nature”, “animals”, etc.

    Which brings up the other point, make the community! Lemmy being new is both good and bad. There is not that much content to view, but any content that is created will be seen by a lot of people. Make a community and teach people about them, get people posting.

    Here are a few others you might enjoy:

    Also you can totally make that image (or another image) your profile photo here. Click your name in the top right to edit that stuff. I myself like sea otters :)

    If you want some browser extensions / apps, here are lists:

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
    01·
    1 year ago

    There are some toxic Reddit refugees appearing, but apart from that you should find things much better. Don’t feed the trolls :)

    It’s confusing at first, but there’s info out there explaining how to get started. There’s like 4-5 decent apps; try them all out and pick your fav.

    While you’re looking for content and your feed to be customised, sort by Hot or Top Today for decent content.

    You might want to check the Australia instances and communities for saving the koalas. We’re expecting a shit fire season this summer which is never good for the dwindling population, on top of the NSW and TAS deforestation.

    Welcome 😁