Newbie here. My keyboard just completely crapped out (it’s been a long time coming). I have a wishlist of features that I was hoping to run by one of the techy communities to see if anyone could recommend a model, but none of the communities I’m seeing are geared toward those kinds of questions.

I can search communities, but if I don’t guess the correct title then I’m SOL… Is there a directory that doesn’t just list the communities, but actually categorizes them so I can more effectively find a hit?

Also is it worth posting in a ‘dead’ community? Unsure if a new post will have any visibility in places like /all if the post itself is in a community that no one frequents.

Learning the ropes here.

Thanks all!

  • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours ago

    Kind of. When people leave Reddit, it’s for a reason. They obviously aren’t looking for a Reddit clone, since it would include the reason they left in the first place. People that leave Reddit for Lemmy either stay and rebuild their communities here, or they suck it up and go back to Reddit. There is no magic solution to add millions of users to Lemmy overnight, and honestly the existing community (and probably software) couldn’t handle that. This is people-powered (volunteer and federated) social networking as opposed to venture capital, IPOs and data centers at scale. Participate and enjoy growing a better future :)