The easiest way is to search for hashtags and click through to profiles that look like they post interesting stuff. You can also check out https://fedi.directory/ where there are suggested accounts to follow for all kinds of different topics. If you’ve not made an intro post there yet, do that too with the tag #introduction and any other tags you’re interested in, that way people will come to you!

Also what kind of crafts and do I already follow you there? 👀 lol

It’s a whole new frontier! :D

Kbin seemed to be pushed more on Mastodon than Lemmy was, during and in the run up to the blackout. Lots of people giving new things a go this week, even from places other than Reddit!

Honestly it is a bit weird, yes, but you do you 😄

I never did Twitter so can’t say what’s different about Mastodon. But I have two accounts there for two separate main interests, crafting and gamedev.

On both of those accounts it’s just a nice way to see what other people are up to within those topics, share my own projects, and generally meet new people and get into conversations around our shared areas of interest.

You can do that here on Lemmy too of course, this just lends itself better to longer in-depth discussions while Mastodon is better for more casual chatter.

I like them both and am happy with my life choices 😄

Yeah everything is taking an absolute hammering atm and federation is all over the place. I’ve got two accounts myself. Just couldn’t bear the idea of OP having like ten accounts for different instances by accident :D

I know it’s not the point of your post (which I did read and also agree with) but just in case nobody else has mentioned it…

In your summary you said you’d signed up for “other instances of Lemmy” and I just want to make sure you know you don’t need to do that to join communities in other places! :)

I’ve seen people literally signing up here just to make like 50 empty communities and not post or comment on anything at all. Definitely a lot of folks just trying to stake some territory that they think will be valuable in the future.

You’d need to sign up for a totally new account. There is talk of adding a migration feature but obviously that’ll require a bit of patience, they’ve got a long list of feature requests!

I’m hoping for some specific craft communities, but for now it makes sense to huddle together in [email protected]. We do love to show off pics of all our projects though so I expect it won’t be too long before it makes sense to start splitting that up.

/r/eurovision, although the season just ended so it would be a bit quiet right now anyway.

/r/fantasyfootball, that season is just about to kick off so would be good timing

If you’d asked this a day earlier I’d have said /r/casualUK but we now have [email protected]

And the various specific craft subs. Currently we’re posting all craft projects to [email protected] but sooner rather than later I think it’ll have to be split up into individual crafts because if there’s one thing crafters love even more than the actual making stuff, it’s showing off the stuff we made.

I’m on Beehaw and managed to join this one ok. I think there’s a delay when the first person tries to search for an instance, before it actually shows up in results. Not ideal but maybe try it again now?