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If all communities were decently active I'd agree. But I have some topics I've followed 5+ communities for yet never see posts about on my feed. But to fill in the more niche communities will require more users, which then takes away the slow pace.
At the end of the day, I'd rather have a shit ton of content and practice self control rather than not having anything to read.
I found that in those cases, making a few posts myself (one a day or so, no spamming) with relevant discussion prompts helped those communities get off the ground and drew out lurkers. You can also cross-post to all the communities with a couple of clicks, and just see where bites. Idk what topics you're here for but it might be worth a try.
No, I'm missing out on critical news. If this isn't fixed I'll go back to reddit.
Everyone, do your part to submit one newsworthy event per day.
Totally relate to that. I love discovering new things and reading many different people's thoughts on a topic, but every platform based around scrolling on a feed is too addictive to me. If I use them too much I can already start to feel some cognitive abilities decline after a few days. The slow pace of lemmy is really nice.
You might also be interested in curating an RSS feed for yourself if you haven't already.
I'm interested in the RSS feed thing, but I have no clue how to do it, where do I start?
I use the app Inoreader for that. No idea if it's the best, just the first one I tried and I'm happy with it.
Then you just subscribe to the feeds you are interested in. Almost every blog or news site has an RSS feed. Just make sure you don't subscribe to any that make dozens of posts per day, or you'll end up overwhelmed. My personal favorite feeds are the top 10 daily hacker news and a few youtubers I like.
Feedly is the one I use, it's very nice having the news widget on my phone home screen that'll periodically auto refresh with new stories
Thanks a lot, I will try it out :)
Slower? Have you not seen all the beans? Maybe thatβs just my feed.
I had posted this a few days before the reddit API change, it was a lot slower then. I kinda miss it TBH...
Sort of yes?
It certainly gives me a lot more time for reading rather than social media which is probably a good thing.