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
    52·
    10 months 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:

    • Konala Koala@lemmy.worldOP
      202·
      10 months ago

      Maybe a new community here will need to be created at some point on koalas when there is enough support for it.

      And I gone ahead and used that image of my avatar from Reddit as my profile photo here and found a koala banner to use as well.

      • Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneEnglish
        10·
        10 months ago

        Looks like Aussie.Zone has the most mentions of koalas.

        https://www.search-lemmy.com/results?query=Koala&page=1&mode=communities

        The Aussie Environment and Australia communities are probably the best placed to get started on koalas. I wouldn’t suggest making a new community yet until you need to, there are a lot of unused ones due to the lack of users. Koalas suit the theme of !environment@aussie.zone (how do I know? I posted all the posts there).

      • SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca
        61·
        10 months ago

        I’ve been here since Apollo stopped working and I created some communities I missed from Reddit. I’d never been a mod before but it was really easy to set up and get it going. Like someone else said, post it in !newcommunities when you’ve created it. Post every single day for 2 weeks or more so there’s a decent amount of content. People will come in time, you just have to do the heavy lifting at first. And if you’re really passionate about koalas then it’s not hard work at all. Good luck!

      • bestonecrazy@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I will make a community for you! What should it be called? c/koalatime, c/savekoalas, or something else

      • Hydroel@lemmy.world
        8·
        10 months ago

        You can make your niche, but unless the people who populated that niche also come you’ll be quite alone. I even miss some CMs 😭

  • bestonecrazy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    19·
    10 months ago

    Tip: “Sublemmies” are actually called “communities” here.

    For your avatar, Go to settings, there should be an image upload option labelled “Avatar”

    For searching for Koala communities, Go to search by clicking on the search icon, Go to the “type box”(to the left of “Subscribed/Local/[all]” and click on “Communities”, then search for “Koala”.

    If there aren’t any, contribute by making your own and filling it with content, other users will follow.

  • pedroapero@lemmy.ml
    13·
    10 months ago

    Welcome ! Lemmy is not perfect, some communities are fighting each others and there are still some technical improvements to make. I hope you will enjoy as I do ;)

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
    93·
    10 months 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 😁

    • Konala Koala@lemmy.worldOP
      41·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, I recently noticed there are a bunch of android apps and browser extensions for Lemmy to choose from.

      Anyway, I came on here to see if there is a niche or talking of creating a niche for saving the koalas in Australia or something, and felt that lemmy.world might be the right place for me to start with. Would like to find discussion about stuff being done on turning a dwindling koala population into hopefully a growing koala population, including what is being done to slow down or even halt the NSW and/or TAS deforestation.

      • saltesc@lemmy.world
        41·
        10 months ago

        Well, if you don’t find it, start it :) That’s how Lemmy’s growing the way it is; a lot good people making the effort.

  • Kotking@mastodon.social
    4·
    10 months ago

    @KonalaKoala Hello there, enjoy exploring Lemmy. Without complicating too much when people talk about federation/fediverse, here https://fedidb.org/ which lists services that uses same protocol aka fediverse. So if you don’t find niche on your instance, it might be somewhere on other lemmy instance, kbin instance or somewhere on Microblogs/blogs in related #koalas #koala . If you find people with same interests you can create community yourself. It’s wild,prototype,unexplored west here. GL.