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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I honestly believe that Lemmy is cool, but it either needs more content or I need to perform a magic trick to make my feed "better". At least it's not that addicting, and the "small community, small town" vibes gives charm to it.

I've been here since August 2024 or so.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I agree, so I've been posting photos and things. What we don't need is a bunch of autoposting bots.

If you want to find the busy threads though, sort of Active and All. And just see what is going on across the lemmyverse

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you want to find the busy threads though, sort of Active and All. And just see what is going on across the lemmyverse

Yeah, this helps, but it's not always topics that really interest me. We kind of need more diversity of content around here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I prefer scaled to active sort for that reason.

I agree though, more content and more content diversity would be great.

The small percentage that contribute content regularity in social media platforms instead of just consuming are great.

I'm too boring to have much content that would be good for anything other than microblogging myself though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Lemmit bot was one of the first things I blocked. Idk if it's still around. It would copy like every post and comment from Reddit lol. It clogged my feed so bad. If it's still a thing, block it, you'll be glad you did.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On Reddit, everyone is trying to get a million votes and just brutally murder with words everyone. It either gets really hostile, or just lots of bots posting bot shit.

On Lemmy: Even the posters I disagree with, I have a lot of fun with them. We say stupid shit all the time and accept the upvotes/downvotes with our shitposts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

That's been my experience as well. I'm using a Lemmy client that allows me to tag users, and I've been tagging people who have posted comments that annoyed me. A few are obvious trolls, but the rest have posted many comments that I liked or agree with since I've tagged them. It's been refreshing to see, actually

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

since August 2024 or so

So, two months? Lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Wait, it's have been only 2 MONTHS? Phew, time's passing slower than I though!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Lemmy is nice, but the content on it is quite niche. If you want something less tech-oriented, you're generally out of luck, for example.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Reddit startled the same way. It's aways first the tech weirdos, early adopters and Foss enthusiasts that start it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Just trying this put. So far it's neat but way too complicated for most users.

[–] GhiLA 3 points 1 month ago

Where my bass fishing homies at?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It's a lot better than August 2023!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I need to perform a magic trick to make my feed “better”. At least it’s not that addicting

Lemmy's feed is intentionally (or I think it is intentional at least) worse in this aspect than Reddit's feed, in order to not be as addictive. Take that how you will.