Same posts each time I open my app, always the same boring topics about bugs and how people feel, this is getting old fast. Not that I am going back to reddit, but don’t think I will stay on lemmy either.
It does seem that both hot and active are moving pretty slowly. I’ve found that “new” is actually the way to see a constant stream of new content, so maybe giving that a try will help.
I second this, when I selected New, I started to see more interesting content.
I double second this, new is the way, I even found a bunch of new communities (Sublemmys 🤙) this way!
Same
Do keep in mind both lemmy and kbin are in the alpha stages and both were relatively slow/calm before the whole reddit thing happened so the devs were caught by surprise.
Try out one of the kbin instances and see what you think. It has lemmy + kbin + mastodon integration. Some of the kbin instances are listed on here: https://kbin.pub/en
I just opened user registration on my kbin instance yesterday so it hasn’t been added to the list yet, but feel free to try any of them!
Imho it’s boring because “active” is the default and works differently from reddit. It shows you active posts, as in posts that have a lot of new comments. This leads to some posts being on the front page for days.
The filter “hot” is supposed to be like reddit, but is currently broken on a lot of instances.
For the best experience I strongly recommend kbin.social since they have a working “hot” as their default giving you the most reddit-like experience out of all the instances I’ve tried.
How do you feel about posts about how people feel?
it’s feelings, all the way down
Or posts about posting more?
I don’t really have this issue. I went through every community yesterday and joined every one I wanted to. I have my feed set to subscribed and new so it’s always changing. I really suggest going through the community list.
You have to also remember there aren’t the same amount of people on lemmy that are on reddit. It’s going to take a minute for communities to grow and post more often.
There is a bug in the Lemmy backend causing hot and active ordering to give you stale posts in the frontpage. Switch to New and enjoy the A C T I V I T Y
Warning: the frontpage will update very fast
fast as fuck boi
gotta sort by new
Due to the the newness and smaller communities to start, the sorting algorithm favors the few more active posts on the larger communities/instances. As others have suggested sorting by subscribed or local + new allows for a more constant stream of new content atm
Even the reddit was dead at its starting ages. Supporting lemmy and kbin eventhough its not perfect is the best.
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Reddit also had their employees using alts to stimulate the site, the more you post the more other people post.
I’m subbed to a lot of communities & use Subscribed + New as my default sort.
Sort by new comments and other similar options. And just post stuff wherever. The reason why 195/196/197 get so big consistently is because posting works.
I started to sort it by new, as I always get the same posts otherwise
What could help fighting the impression you have is subscribing to many communities that are interesting to you. Then turn your settings on “subscribed-new”. That should give you plenty of new content. If you need more, check “local-new” and if that also is not enough take “all-new”. This way you will have so much content that it will be like a waterfall and you are right under it.
While I agree this is the way, a platform like this shouldn’t have to come with a handbook for people to be able to enjoy it. I guess this is why many such platforms start by asking you what topics you’re interested in and such.
I personally find that I really don’t know what all I may take an interest in until I actually see it. I’m rather fond of “all.”
You know how to search all on lemmy right? It’s Posts/Comments > All > Whatever you want here, I prefer New Comments
things are a lot slower here than on reddit. because we simply have far less users. naturally that means niche content isn’t going to be that active, and even bigger topics will be much slower.
in terms of “how people feel”, I think it’s just because a lot of people are just starting to settle in. ultimately though: be the change you wanna see. if you wanna see other topics, post about them :)
I was feeling the same way until i browsed by New and found some interesting communities, plus subscribing to the ones that migrated or were similar to the ones i was subscribing on Reddit. Now i find interesting stuff but without that many memes, which is what actually sells lemmy to me tbh.
