I left Lemmy to come here to join the fed not too long ago. I went through the setup and joined a bunch of communities.
The most active one I spend reading is Selfhosted.
Besides that I’m on my home page using the default “hot” and “subscribe” sorts enabled and I see the same thing all day every other day. I see people say it’s not that active and I know this isn’t Reddit with its volume but it can’t be that inactive here.
I’ve tried “hot/new” and “all” just it seems to be a bunch of RSS feeds with no human context or interaction.
With I’m doing something wrong or the communities I’ve joined aren’t active enough or both.
I’ve tried “hot/new” and “all” just it seems to be a bunch of RSS feeds with no human context or interaction. With I’m doing something wrong or the communities I’ve joined aren’t active enough or both.
No, you're right...
To get content, you have to browse /new
To browse /new, you have to block all the idiots spamming reposts from other social media. Otherwise it drowns out all the stuff a human actually posted and cares about.
Fair warning, there's a shit ton of them. One person has like 20 accounts they rotate thru spam posting, and you're gonna feel like it's never ending. But eventually it's a pretty good experience.
Just block anything you don't like as you go. It's more about pruning then curating.