Lemmy is a really great piece of software and i’m happy to use it but i have to say the quality of the content is really low and the way the platform is structured isn’t helping. The frontpage is filled with memes and news from third parties and most discussions are happening below stupid headlines. If i were to document a live event i have no idea were i should post.
A good way to find cool communities to subscribe to is searching topics that interest you on lemmyverse.net.
Once you have a good amount of subscriptions, you’ll have a pretty good time.
Alternatively, if you diligently block each community from /all that doesn’t interest you, the /all page also becomes pretty great to scroll.
Are there clients that don’t have an integrated search function? Mine do.
They do, but the way the fediverse works is that if someone else on your instance hasn’t already searched a community by pasting in its URL, it won’t show up in a normal integrated search, as it wouldn’t have federated to your instance (searching a community directly or subscribing initiates federation).
Lemmyverse doesn’t have that limitation, it crawls every instance and creates a complete list of every community across all instances, making its search very valuable.