I’ve had better results searching through the instances themselves because Google doesn’t always index the keywords on time. On caveat of this method is that if the instance doesn’t have the syncing out the instance where the info is from being propagated, then this trick would not work

I think that giving too many choices to users who are already confused by the concept of federation and instances will enhance their paralysis of making choice due to cognitive overload (See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overchoice ).

I’ve found out kbin.social the easiest to get used to (end-user wise).

Unfortunately, I’ve been getting some 404 not found of some communities/magazines of some instances that are not from the instance I’m using, e.g. I’m using kbin.social at the current posting account, but let’s say that I tried to access something like https://sh.itjust.works/c/skincareaddiction there’s no issues whatsoever (since it’s the main instance where that community spawned off) but if I tried https://kbin.social/m/skincareaddiction@sh.itjust.works then I would get the aforementioned error code. I find it pretty inconvenient that caching/indexing of certain less popular (which I assume is what is happening) community working clunkily, it feels not as reliable than using a centralized service, but I guess that this is the price to pay for a decentralized system.

My list

Funsies & Weird brainstorming

• /r/competitiveoverwatch aka /r/cow (I don’t play the game but I sure enjoy the juice)
• /r/hobbydrama (very diverse type of juicy dramas, miam!)
• /r/overwatchTMZ (/r/cow but extended)
• /r/valorantcompetitive (same reasoning for the OW one)
• /r/livestreamfail (don’t post there; but is fun to occasionally lurk and see funny stuffs and be up to date with the latest online juicers)
• /r/anarchychess
• /r/singularity
• /r/BestofRedditorUpdates
• and 20 more cute animal pictures/videos subreddits like /r/partyparrots, /r/happycowgifs, etc.

Stuffs I use for er… productivity! yeah yeah productivity, that’s right!

• /r/obsidianmd I enjoy seeing other people’s workflow and new tools being developed
• /r/chatgpt (Recently the main sub went to shit with the influx of new users so /r/chatgptcoding or /r/chatgptpro might be better lol)

Subreddits that I often get led by Google search engine and it would be sad if they were to go down perpetually since I would have a very hard time without them…

• /r/homelab
• /r/automation
• /r/selfhosted
• /r/datahoarder
• /r/android
• /r/sysadmin
• /r/kitchenconfidential
• /r/appliancerepair/

I’m also very interested in how some different jobs work so I subbed out to these to check on them occasionally… and they sometimes would provide interesting workflows/insights that I can a-hem, take inspiration from…

• /r/ExperiencedDevs/
• /r/accounting
• /r/uxdesign

There’s way more but I visit those a bit less, the problem is, I’m not sure if Lemmy can fill the void in my heart but if it does for those main ones (all above) then I think that I can permanently migrate from Reddit.

Um yeah I don’t think that the ones geared towards casuals and super niche enthusiast subs like /r/MachineEmbroidery/ and /r/baduk will migrate with the already low amount of traffic they generate on Reddit… Reddit needs to do something on the level of being SUPER DRASTIC to let that happen. The most important thing about Reddit is that it’s convenient to browse, they have to make it super inconvenient like imagine every subreddit blacking out (and exceptions don’t count) then users will flock elsewhere (but most likely Twitter and Facebook again because no end users are going to bother learning what “the fediverse” is when signing up for an account is already a huge hurdle for them. The only way to make an Lemmy strive is that they can offer something UNIQUE that nothing on Reddit can. Maybe let’s say there’s an upcoming video game, and the wiki makers/number crunchers of that game decide to host their content and research on Lemmy… and do not allow Reddit to repost there (but linking is important in order to refer them to Lemmy)… like that we can have some semblance of hope.