I feel like most posts on Lemmy are irrelevant to me, and they don’t refresh much, is this how Lemmy is like or is this just because I’m a new user?

  • Ludrol@szmer.info
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    3 months ago

    Lemmy didn’t have really The Algorithm to feed your media consumption. You need to build your own diet by subscribing to communities of your choice. You can use this search engine to find ones that interest you. https://lemmyverse.net/

  • serpineslair@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    There is no “algorithm” on Lemmy. One of the reasons why I like it. No tracking in the typical sense. Simply subscribe to communities which you want to see, then browse “Subscribed”. Alternatively, some people like to browse “All” and block any content they do not wish to see. Me personally, a mixture of both. Every now and then I scroll “All” to find new communities to subscribe to. Hope this helps :D.

  • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Being honest, a lot of it probably is because Lemmy is so small. I’ve subscribed to basically every even vaguely relevant community to me, and I still only get about a half-dozen posts a day in my subscribed feed.

    • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Also while there’s a modest amount of people here (I’d reserve small for under a thousand online, personally), many of them seem to have a rather narrow set of interests they like to engage with. Namely technology (self-hosting & Linux in particular), news (primarily to do with politics), and memes (a mix of things but largely politically-tinged, old memes, nostalgia-tinged).

      Outside of these interests the next most active may be cute animals, comics, and video games with some gradually rising gardening, stitching, woodworking, art, and certainly other interest communities I’m forgetting or haven’t noticed.

      • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Also while there’s a modest amount of people here (I’d reserve small for under a thousand online, personally)

        Honestly, I’d be curious how many active users we actually have. I wouldn’t be suprised if it was fewer than 1000 who contibute (including just voting) when excluding the authoritarian instances and spam.

        Do any instances publish these stats?