I’m just about ready to give up. I knew Lemmy wasn’t going to be Reddit, but to be honest it feels like everybody here is trying to make something work that isn’t, and it’s exhausting blocking all these stupid fucking communities made for extremely specific weird shit.
Oh and if you haven’t noticed, there’s only a handful of people who are responsible for most of the news and politics posting, they always post certain takes in issues as well. seems pretty suspicious to me and while I know you guys all think we escaped “big media” and the gross amount of state sponsored misinformation on reddit, but I’m pretty sure they’re here already and they are practically running the information communities.
Don’t force yourself if you don’t feel like it. Lemmy still have a lot of rough edges, hopefully it will get better over time, but at the moment it takes some commitment to use it as a Reddit replacement
Have you tried kbin? Same content in that it’s Lemmy compatible, but slightly different sorting algorithm which (in my view) seems to result in a more rounded/balanced set of posts being promoted.
Yes there a different set of issues - it’s earlier in it’s development phase, but developing fast (collapsibling comments is being worked on, API (and therefore 3rd party apps) is imminent, many other improvements are developed and expecting to go live this month…
You are rather missing my point. Because it sorts on boosts rather than upvotes it surfaces different things in the federated ‘all’ feed.
Edit: As corrected below it’s about 10k monthly active users, but that’s still circa 10% of the whole threadiverse (kbin + Lemmy) and only Lemmy.world is larger than kbin.social
Turn federation off and browse /all. 90% of content is the same 4-5 posters or very niche magazines that are full of posts exclusively submitted by the magazine owner. Comments are a bit more varied but you can’t throw a stone without hitting one of about 7 frequent commenters, which also includes the 4-5 post submitters.
Indeed. Activity pub includes favourites and boosts.
Lemmy uses favourites as an upvote. Kbin does too, but kbin also allows boots and it considers that a boost (which is like a retweet) is a more significant endorsement so sorting and reputation is based more on boosts than on upvotes.
Yeah my local is just as trash as the all though?
I’m just about ready to give up. I knew Lemmy wasn’t going to be Reddit, but to be honest it feels like everybody here is trying to make something work that isn’t, and it’s exhausting blocking all these stupid fucking communities made for extremely specific weird shit.
Oh and if you haven’t noticed, there’s only a handful of people who are responsible for most of the news and politics posting, they always post certain takes in issues as well. seems pretty suspicious to me and while I know you guys all think we escaped “big media” and the gross amount of state sponsored misinformation on reddit, but I’m pretty sure they’re here already and they are practically running the information communities.
The ultimate method is:
Cultivate your own ‘Subscribed’ feed.
Then almost every post is good.
You choose your own level of involvement.
Just because I’m interested in the category doesn’t mean every post will be good. Classification doesn’t guarantee quality.
I honestly mostly stick to subscribed.
Once a day I check all with “Top of the day”
For emerging communities I use !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl (which just moved today to !trendingcommunities@endlesstalk.org
Don’t force yourself if you don’t feel like it. Lemmy still have a lot of rough edges, hopefully it will get better over time, but at the moment it takes some commitment to use it as a Reddit replacement
Have you tried kbin? Same content in that it’s Lemmy compatible, but slightly different sorting algorithm which (in my view) seems to result in a more rounded/balanced set of posts being promoted.
Yes there a different set of issues - it’s earlier in it’s development phase, but developing fast (collapsibling comments is being worked on, API (and therefore 3rd party apps) is imminent, many other improvements are developed and expecting to go live this month…
Kbin is like 7 people posting content lol
Circa 60,000 active users, but whatever…
You are rather missing my point. Because it sorts on boosts rather than upvotes it surfaces different things in the federated ‘all’ feed.
Edit: As corrected below it’s about 10k monthly active users, but that’s still circa 10% of the whole threadiverse (kbin + Lemmy) and only Lemmy.world is larger than kbin.social
Slightly less than 10 000 right now, actually. Still, we remain smaller only than Lemmy.world
Thanks for the correction, I read the wrong number! I’ve edited accordingly.
Turn federation off and browse /all. 90% of content is the same 4-5 posters or very niche magazines that are full of posts exclusively submitted by the magazine owner. Comments are a bit more varied but you can’t throw a stone without hitting one of about 7 frequent commenters, which also includes the 4-5 post submitters.
What’s the difference between a boost and an upvote?
I think a boost is referring to the Mastodon kind, so basically a retweet
Indeed. Activity pub includes favourites and boosts.
Lemmy uses favourites as an upvote. Kbin does too, but kbin also allows boots and it considers that a boost (which is like a retweet) is a more significant endorsement so sorting and reputation is based more on boosts than on upvotes.