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

  • @KumaEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    I don’t know if this answers your question about same posts, but here is info about the sorting algorithm:

    https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html

    I also see same posts (I am looking at you two toilets in a bathroom) a lot but I think it is just lemmys way to show posts that ppl engage in and I guess two toilets in a bathroom is a very hot/trending topic right now because it doesn’t seem to die down 😂

    So I usually sort on all and new to find post that is lonely and maybe help them out a bit by commenting :D

    I don’t think this is a big different from reddit tho, on reddit do I see almost the same post all the time or even repost, here I just see the same post more 😂 just go and look at r/steamdeck, same question over and over again, but I will read them all! haha

    I don’t know what kinds of subs you joined but big ones like meme is posting a lot. But I saw this on reddit too, even reddit thought my feed was a bit lacking so I had maybe 50% posts from subs I hadn’t subscribed to, to scroll through 😂

    But also remember we aren’t as many here(yet). we just hit over 100k users yesterday.

    https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

    And I think it is good to have multiple sources of entertainment. Even tho it is nice to have everything at one place :D

    Sorry if this sounds like preaching and that I wrote a book. But here you have it haha

    Edit: fixed a few grammar mistakes (that I saw right away)