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Is there any downside to being subscribed to dead/inactive communities?
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this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
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Since when? Reddit must have gotten worse than I thought in the past couple of years...
That's a very old feature
Huh. I don't think I ever saw posts in my subscribed feed I hadn't subscribed to...
I was talking about your subscribed subs, to clarify
What's the difference between "subscribed feed" and "subscribed subs"?
One and the same - I was saying that I wasn't suggesting what you thought I was suggesting, I was definitely talking about subscriptions. To clarify my question,
reddit.com home page generates posts from your subscriptions (the subreddits you've subscribed to).
It randomly selects 50 (or 100 if you pay) of your subscriptions and then populates the feed.
Hence the problem: if you subscribe to inactive subreddits, some of the 50 reddit selects are effectively duds; they're not doing anything and are taking up spots that other active subreddits could have. Your home feed is therefore de-facto hindered if you subscribe to inactive subreddits.
I was wondering if this is also the case on Lemmy.
I was not aware that Reddit had a limit on the number of subs which appear in one's subscribed feed. I'm not aware of any such limit on Lemmy, and would be surprised if it were as low as 50 (if a limit exists).