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I really want to like Lemmy (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] sanguinepar 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's tricky at times, but I'm really liking it after a few days. It's a bit chaotic but in a fun way I think.

If you haven't seen it yet, check out https://browse.feddit.de for a way to search for more communities

Hope you start to enjoy it more :-)

[–] Hazen 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I really just want a good r/all functionality.

[–] sanguinepar 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you filter to All and sort by Active does that not more or less do the job? I never really used /r/All so I'm maybe not the best judge.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

As someone who used /r/all before, what you say is exactly the same as I'm used to. Maybe sort by "Hot" though. Reddits algorithm is somewhere between "Hot" and "Active" here. Active is too slow, hot is too fast.

[–] sanguinepar 3 points 2 years ago

Ah, nice one, thanks :-)

[–] solivine 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hot doesn't update often enough for me, do you know how to fix that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I've no idea why that would be or what exactly "often enough" means for you - hot has mostly 8-16h old posts, and if I start scrolling down a bit I even start to see 15 minute old posts. Which is probably not how it should be, but 15 minutes certainly seems "often enough".

I also see 2 year old posts on hot for some reason, so yeah, it's definitely not perfect, but reddit had more than a decade to get it right, I'm sure lemmy will get better.

[–] Tylith 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Is there a way to stop everything from constantly updating/moving around once I've loaded the page? It's like it adds new posts to the top (even when sorting by active/hot) and bumps everything down.

[–] sanguinepar 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think so, seen a lot of people talking about that. I tend to stay in Subscribed/New, so it's not a thing I see often, but I know what you mean.

I think maybe developers are working on it, but not sure tbh.

[–] Tylith 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh well, thanks for your response. I'm sure it will get sorted eventually.

[–] sanguinepar 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, hope so.