I find the Hot view algorithm kind of glitchy - it always seems to jump to 2-3 year old posts after the first few. I prefer the Top views from the past day or week and the New view. You should be able to set your default view in your settings.
And like salarua said, you can switch between your subscribed communities, local communities (everything on your home instance), and all communities across all instances.
You’re not the only one! That’s partly why I made that post- on Reddit I would make 1-2 posts a year and only got real traction with 1 or 2 ever. I was always too late for my comments to matter and I usually just browsed and voted.
Here, the community is smaller so each post and comment matters more, and for the most part I’ve found it a lot more welcoming. I realized that engaging more proactively was a lot more fun than on Reddit, and I thought that others would probably be thinking the same way so maybe this post would help break down that passive habit so many of us have from Reddit.
There’s usually no need to join multiple servers. The only really reason would be if the communities you want to interact with are in instances that aren’t very well federated (ie connected to lots of other instances). Then you may want accounts on the more isolated instances to access that content and an account on a more mainstream instance to give you access to the rest of Lemmy’s content.
Managing multiple accounts can be tricky, but I’ve heard some of the apps are good at aggregating the content across multiple accounts. I only have one Lemmy account though so I don’t have firsthand experience.
I’m not sure… what’s Connect?
Check back in a day or so to see if they’re still gone
Check out lemmyverse.net - it’s a great tool to browse the communities and instances out there
I don’t mean we should spam the communities with everything we can find. Only repost the good stuff. Be a curator. We don’t have karma here, so there’s no incentive to post everything just for the internet points. Reddit is just a good resource to find content that could make the communities more interesting.
If you do the “Install App” process it actually feels like a standalone app. Not sure how it works without the App Store.
Hey, even this comment helps! Same with subscriptions and upvotes
Be the change you want to see.
Nice! Hopefully soon one of them can merge my Lemmy, Kbin and Mastodon accounts into a single app. Kbin just needs to release some APIs.
Looks like a pretty standard Friday night ticket for NY or Chicago