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I really want to like Lemmy (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 year ago by jaykay@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I really want to like lemmy, but it's difficult. I'm new to all this fediverse thingy, and I might just have old habits and perceptions how things should work but... I keep seeing the same posts more than once, iOS experience is not that good really, sometimes I see dead posts from 2 years ago for some reason, despite having subscribed to like 30 communities there aren't that many new posts to read.

Part of it probably that subreddits had millions of people so a lot of posts every minute, but it still feels underwhelming.

It's not as doomscrolly. Maybe I should find something else to waste my time on haha

What is your experience with lemmy? Maybe I just do things wrong. Let me know

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[–] pistachio@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The default sorting is by "active" which to me doesn't show a lot of new content (from the last hours). Switching to hot improves the experience a lot.

[–] mintberrycrunch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hot should be default

[–] isildun@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Another good sort is "Top Day". The blackout and subsequent activity here really highlighted an issue in Hot where the most popular communities just endlessly get interaction and stay at the top of Hot/Active. On the other hand, Top Day has been continuously bringing in new posts from all my communities.

The best experience is probably going to be using a combination of the two, swapping if one feels like it's getting stale.

[–] killerbees@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I also dislike that it's "live". I'll be browsing the post titles and new stuff would appear on top so I lose my place.

[–] TheAmorphous@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there any way to prevent that? I'll be reading a post title and everything shifts out from under me constantly.

[–] killerbees@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I have no idea. The other person who replied said that it's a bug, but they deleted their comment. I set my view to default on Local/Hot at the moment. "All" moves too fast for me, and I'm not in the mood yet to curate my subscriptions.