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Ngl I'm kinda surprised by how many people use the main feed, when I first joined lemmy I just looked up some communities that I was interested in and set my default feed to subscribed only, the only memes I see regularly are from an RPG meme community.
Lemmy is a barren landscape of emptiness of your stray outside of All.
Local can be OK depending on your instance.
It’s a fact, though, that Lemmy is way too small to just follow a bunch of niche communities (which I felt was the best way to use Reddit)
Not in my experience. I only browse by "subscribed".
You must be subscribed to memes and shitposts
I only browse by subscribed because I don't subscribe to communities with "memes" and "shitposts", if a community has too many of them I unsubscribe to them.
Depends how many subscriptions you have
Or how much time you spend on Lemmy. When I hit my pockets of ADD procrastination I run out of active content on All pretty quick.
I use the main feed as a way to broaden my horizons. Of course I block communities and use filters extensively as necessary. So it’s not too bad once it’s dialed in.
Lemmy is so early in its growth that I'm not sure why anyone would come here and not have at least a passing interest in All. It lets you see how we're doing in a collective sense and is going to be the best way to find new communities.
I'm fairly into politics, but even I'm sick of hearing about it all day. I still go into threads though to see if we're at least posting facts and complete stories, and I try to steer things back in a good direction if I see something.
This is the time period where we're setting the conduct for our instances. If we allow sloppy posts or misinformation when we're small, we'll either never get big or we'll turn into something we didn't want. I think that means I'm here for the community building moreso than the actual conduct. If all one wants is tech news, there's already well established sites giving out nothing but that.
Yeah, I am a subscribed feed main. I want to see what I want, not wade through everything available to me. That may lead to me missing some stuff that may interest me, but so filters out a large portion of stuff I know I do not want to see.
Yup, I use lemmy ( at least try ) like RSS client to create "my feed" but yes, lemmy, does its three cents to the output. I'll check your points out, thanks (y)