this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2025
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Interesting because i just joined 1 day ago so my feed only has 5 default following, but discover only has about 5 other peoples' work repeated through the discover tab. It seems difficult to discover new people which could be a problem in retaining normal people after the ibflux, like what happened to lemmy
Which server did you join? I've been following lots of hashtags (including cats), so my feed there is pretty active. Just hoping some IRL friends and family will join soon so I have those sort of accounts to follow and share with.
Gram.social
To me, the entire idea behind federation is that, like mastodon and Lemmy, you can see everything in the space, not just what is on your own server, especially by default or extremely upfront and clear way to make the behavior like that. That is the entire thing people are afraid of when they have to choose a server which leads to centralization or people simply leaving.
I mean I also don't get any of the hashtags I follow on my feed. Only the 5 accounts they forced me to follow by default.
It's hard for me to believe the number of 44k monthly active users and yet the "most popular accounts" that I can see on discover have 45 followers and there is virtually no activity outside of a few photographers that imported their Instagram account.
Huh. Are you using the web browser or an app? Oddly, when I browse my gram.social home feed via the web browser, it's mostly (but not exclusively) just the default accounts in my feed, but when I browse via the Pixelfed, PixelDroid, or Pixelix apps, I'm seeing lots of posts coming from many other servers, including Mastodon servers.
I’m on Gram.social but don’t have that experience. Interesting.
Maybe federation isn't working correctly for that instance? Maybe try to reach out to the admin?