First, I made ‘Album Artists’ my landing page. 'Artists" includes everyone tagged in the metadata, ‘Album Artists’ only contains the primary artists. For me, the difference is 350 album artists vs 1412 artists.

I run everything through Picard when I add something to the server. Sometimes I have to change the metadata (for example I hate having an entry for ‘&’ like Elton John & Hans Zimmer and I’ll change it so the album is included in both Elton John and Hans Zimmer but theres no entry for them together). But generally it’s pretty simple and smooth.

Looks like this:

Kagi has a lens that only searches the Fediverse.

Absolutely. I never imagined I’d pay for search but Kagi is leaps and bounds better than other search engines. I decided to pay when I realized how much I search every day after getting the free trial. Went through 100 searches in four days. If I search that much, paying for an engine that has no ads, uses useful lenses, and lets me block results from sites like Facebook was a no-brainer.

This is how I discovered I search around 20 times a day. Burned through it pretty quick haha

Yeah I’m on a few politics, open source, and tech communities and it’s pretty good, just an adjustment from the sheer volume of Reddit. I’m enjoying being a part of something quieter that really benefits from interaction at this stage, and I’ll probably post more because of that rather than just lurking. Reminds me of what Reddit used to be before it went mainstream.

Any input/recommendations/advice for someone just getting into the Fediverse?

How are you finding Lemmy? I dumped all but Reddit years ago but Reddits become the same as the rest so I just made the switch. Bit of a learning curve on Lemmy with the Fediverse and instances but I’m liking it so far. Honestly having less content and no algorithms pushing never ending feeds means I’ve cut my former “Reddit” time by like 75% haha.