Hi guys, I’m on lemmy since the reddit api announcement and am subscribed to tens of communities. When I’m setting my feed to watch topics only from Subscribed communities (hot/active), I see a lot of topics from the same communities, like 10 topics in a row from 1 community then 3 from a different one and again from the first one. My point is that I want to get diversed topic from all subscribed communities ( I know there are new and hot topics there) and not seeing repeated communities only. Is there a way to make some communities show less topics or make the feed more diverse (other than I subscribe to the loud ones) ?
I unsubscribed from memes because it was flodding my feed way too much. It’s better now.
Memes is honestly terrible. At first I got a tiny mild chuckle out of it but now it’s just too prominent.
Same. Today the user spamming 7 different memes was the last drop in my bucket.
Since unsubbing it is a so much better experience
I recommend that everybody keep two accounts on their instance of choice (as long as this is within the rules of your instance). Keep one account for all the “brain on” stuff, and one account for the "brain off’ stuff. You know what I mean, interpret it how you like.
If you’re using one of the mobile apps, most of them support very easy quick account switching, which makes this even easier on your phone. It definitely makes it a lot more manageable, in my experience.
It’s crazy how much unfunny crap is posted there. So much better now that I unsubbed
I’ve found that hot and active sorting do not create the most enjoyable feed experience for me. I currently have my sorting set to top>6 hours, which I like much better. It means my feed does not change that much over time, so if you’re opening Lemmy frequently for a couple of minutes of browsing, it doesn’t really work. But I generally only come here during my commute, so twice a day for a longer period of browsing, and it works really well for that.
Us early adopters have some advantage in that we have grown with the communities. You’re now looking at a much larger list than we did.
I would search for stuff you’re interested in and subscribe to them. Then maybe look at the mods and see what else they have posted and commented on. These will likely be people that are engaged well on lemmy and may have similar interests as you. Maybe subscribe to places they are engaging with.
After you have a solid base of 20-40 communities, use the All feed and sort by newest posts to try and find stuff you may be interested in and are active. That will show stuff from lots of other instances.
“Us early adopters”
Did I miss something? It says you joined in June 2023 lol… like four years after the “early adopters”
When I joined there were 1.21k total users on .world, there were around the same number on beehaw, kbin was totally defederated, .ml had 1.6k total users and no other instances had more than a few hundred total users that I could see. Looking at the daily activity levels, it looked like there were less than 500 people per day total on all of Lemmy. There were maybe a dozen total communities that had at least one post a day from random users. I joined this and started posting hoping things would grow. I actually first created an account on Lemmy around a year ago, but the content on the instance I joined sucked and I didn’t stick around. When I came back at the beginning of June, that instance was gone, so I made this account.
Second wave early adopters. If you joined in early June there was like a tenth of the people now.
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I consume my Subscribed feed first.
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When I have seen enough there but still want more, I go to the All feed.
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With good luck, I find new communities and subscribe to those. That improves my Subscribed feed, see step 1.
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with bad luck, I find a lot of crap in the All feed. When I notice recurring annoying communities, I go to their sidebar and block them. That improves my All feed, see step 2.
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I’m in the same boat, I guess it’s caused by the sorting algorithm and I don’t think a solution exists right now.
not optimal, but I still prefer this to the Silicon Valley Adslinger Algo™ tbh
You could make seperate accounts for different topics. Like make one account for memes, one for technology, one for news/politics, one for educational purposes etc etc.
Pretty much every Lemmy app lets you login with multiple accounts at once. Wefwef does that too, if you prefer websites over native apps.
That makes seperating your feeds a more clean experience. That’s how I do it for Youtube example.
If I open Youtube, because I want to listen to music in the background, I don’t want to get distracted by memes, news, vlogs, gaming stuff etc. That’s why I log in with my Music account where I only subscribe to musicians. This gives me a clean feed and the algorithm works in my favor to keep me at the topic at hand.
I blocked a handful of people who posted something every few minutes.
I just browse by All and sort by New Comments. I get a diverse feed of topics, some I may not even be aware of, all with active discussion due to any new comment or reply pushing them to the top.
This is more of a support question related to using Lemmy. Please see the sidebar for communities where you can find support.
Lets make an exception ;)
No harm no foul right?
Thank you
I’m getting tired of seeing those comments, it’s giving a little bit of condescension, and tbh I don’t want to see lemmy communities just turn into subreddits with a list of 30 strict rules you have to check your post against before submitting
It’s so unbelievably easy to just scroll past, I truly don’t understand people who don’t want to see it and could just scroll, but instead expend the energy to open the post and type out a comment instead
I know this technically isn’t the right community, but is it hurting anyone? Could we view it as an opportunity to help someone today? Idk people are so into their own little world.
