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.
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:
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.
In case you’d decide to make it, you can promote it at !newcommunities@lemmy.world.
Also great one to be subscribed to.
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).
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!