Favourite, not sure. Maybe my “favourite” would be the one which would be the hardest to replace with something I like.

There wouldn’t be something i can think off that could be irreplaceable. However the hardest thing I like may be FanControl.

For the browser, Firefox is very nice, but it’s “just” a browser if you think about it. There is brave, and other open source chromium alternatives if it disappears.

For mail clients, I also like the Mailspring design, however Thunderbird just got a new skin and damn it looks good too.

And for the rest, I don’t really know. Either I don’t remember right now, or no special “like” for the software. Or I like the closed source software convenience more (I may also have no idea of an open source alternative, or an equivalent in features open source).

It depends on the usage really.

The issue with mastodon communities is that they don’t use the same type of fediverse tools. You could maybe follow people from mastodon, but the apps or Lemmy/kbin will need to implement a compatibility with those fediverse websites.

To follow communities outside your instance it’s a bit less optimised currently as the instances don’t scrape all the communities from other servers.

So to find them, either someone else had to search it and subscribe to the community for the server to show it when you search for them, or you’ll have to show the server where the community is :

For example a community from your instance : !apolloapp@reddthat.com

You can notice that I put a ! Then [community] and @[server address].

You will often see this presentation under the community name when clicking on a community : !apolloapp This is what that means.

If you were on another instance, to find the apolloapp community from reddthat.com, you’ll need to search for either : !apolloapp@reddthat.com Or https://reddthat.com/c/apolloapp

I don’t know if apps are able to search like this, so you may need to go on your account in a browser and search from there.

Also as stated in another comment, there are websites to search for communities, like Lemmyverse.

However you can find communities to replace the reddit ones here :

https://www.quippd.com/writing/2023/06/15/unofficial-subreddit-migration-list-lemmy-kbin-etc.html

And

https://sub.rehab/

Also for techsupport, !lemmy@lemmy.ml would be better suited.

I don’t think you can see another instance.

However that etherum instance would have communities/“subs”. You can “join”/subscribe to those communities to see them from your original instance.

You can see in my screenshot some posts. You can see that Raleigh has posted to Diggit. You can clic on that “Diggit”, and you’ll get to this : https://diggit.xyz/c/diggit

This is the Diggit community from the Diggit.xyz instance.

You can join that community by going to your instance search, and putting this link in the search : https://diggit.xyz/c/diggit or !diggit@diggit.xyz.

That way you will join that community.

By doing so with each community you are interested in, you can join the different communities from that instance, post to them, and interact with them.

Why do you have to do that? Because lemmy/kbin… Are hosted on different servers, which don’t directly scrap all the communities on all the servers.

So until someone on that particular instance has subsided to a community, that instance won’t see the community.

I sorted by New. The “Hot” feature may not work as the reddit “Hot/current”, as there wouldn’t be an advanced algorithm.

Lemmy is pretty small, so it somewhat works. But if it starts to get very big, there will have to be an algorithm to manage the proposed posts, or it will be unusable.