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Dead feed? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey there, so I registered to Sopuli recently and I'm still getting through the transition out of Reddit, I'll admit right now I'm enjoying the shit show too much to step away but once RiF stops working, I'm probably gonna be around here a lot more.

But right now my feed seems completely dead. I spent some time subscribing to some popular communities from different servers and I try browsing local, all and subscribed. Both hot and active serves me posts that are days, sometimes weeks old.

What can I do to get more content in my feed? I was just browsing the kbin front page (without an account) and was seeing fresher posts from Lemmy servers than I'm getting in Jerboa so it must be something wrong on my end and not just that's there's too little content.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'll echo advice from an early Redditor from around 2010 in response to my complaint that was similar to yours: spend time upvoting and downvoting in the New feed. Not Hot. Not Trending. New.

I'd argue the bottleneck limiting step in the chemical reaction that is a link aggregator (be it Digg, Reddit, or Lemmy) is the number of conscious people at any one time who are engaged in upvoting / downvoting content with few votes.

So, yes, it's a civic duty and chore in any forum to patrol the New feed. New, by it's nature, is a slurry of mostly uninteresting low quality noise compared to the amplified main feed. But if you feel even a little bit of guilt at using a free service you're not donating to, you can alleviate some of that guilt by voting in New.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's a very valid point and it's definitely going to make me spend more time in new up/downvoting.