A related contributing factor: as instances gain users, more federated content is showing up in all, so new users don’t have to jump through hoops to find it.
New is only good in small communities. A feed with, I’m guessing, 10,000+ users, it’s a challenge to read titles before new posts causes them to scroll off the screen.
Would anyone find it helpful if I wrote a simple bot that pulls Reddit RSS and pops a little bit of top content for various subreddits into community posts here? I can’t tell if that would be useful or spammy.
I mean, the poor Webcomics community has exactly one post, while there’s a deluge of good content out there waiting to be linked to.
Respectfuly, please don’t. One of the reasons I started going on reddit a decade ago and one of the reasons I come here is to find content that other people, with either similar or distinct tastes, find interesting, and talk about it. To automate or defer to a machine, however technically interesting it might be for the creator, defeats the purpose of a social network. I abandoned many subs on reddit and have abandoned Facebook and Instagram because they are no longer human. Advertisers and a machine decide what you see. Barely tolerate YouTube but they’re honest and it has never been about following people and more like browsing TV channels.
I think my point is, if I wanted an RSS feed, I would setup an RSS feed.
I’ve noticed that Lemmy is getting more and more usable as more users join and add more content.
A related contributing factor: as instances gain users, more federated content is showing up in all, so new users don’t have to jump through hoops to find it.
Um, I am desperate for them to fix their main page algorithm. I browse Lemmy cause fuck Reddit, but the main page is mostly useless.
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I do that sometimes, but that’s not even close to what I’m looking for. If they had a top hourly, that word be close
New is good
New is okay, but especially as more content is generated, all/new is going to become unusable.
Local/New is still pretty good for now, but all/top-day is working pretty well for me since I can only be on before/after work.
New is only good in small communities. A feed with, I’m guessing, 10,000+ users, it’s a challenge to read titles before new posts causes them to scroll off the screen.
I use New as well.
Just started using this and it does work better.
Would anyone find it helpful if I wrote a simple bot that pulls Reddit RSS and pops a little bit of top content for various subreddits into community posts here? I can’t tell if that would be useful or spammy.
I mean, the poor Webcomics community has exactly one post, while there’s a deluge of good content out there waiting to be linked to.
Respectfuly, please don’t. One of the reasons I started going on reddit a decade ago and one of the reasons I come here is to find content that other people, with either similar or distinct tastes, find interesting, and talk about it. To automate or defer to a machine, however technically interesting it might be for the creator, defeats the purpose of a social network. I abandoned many subs on reddit and have abandoned Facebook and Instagram because they are no longer human. Advertisers and a machine decide what you see. Barely tolerate YouTube but they’re honest and it has never been about following people and more like browsing TV channels.
I think my point is, if I wanted an RSS feed, I would setup an RSS feed.
Yeah, that’s exactly why I was asking. I figured this might be the sentiment.
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someone already did that on kbin.social/m/BotIt i think.