Same posts each time I open my app, always the same boring topics about bugs and how people feel, this is getting old fast. Not that I am going back to reddit, but don’t think I will stay on lemmy either.
It does seem that both hot and active are moving pretty slowly. I’ve found that “new” is actually the way to see a constant stream of new content, so maybe giving that a try will help.
I second this, when I selected New, I started to see more interesting content.
I double second this, new is the way, I even found a bunch of new communities (Sublemmys 🤙) this way!
Same
are you contributing? This place is only as interesting as you make it
This a thousand times. I mainly lurked on Reddit and I’m trying to actually contribute here. Sometimes I fear that no one will care what I have to say, but someone needs to start the conversation.
Yeah, I’m the same, used to just lurk on Reddit. But with Lemmy trying to engage with the communities a bit more. Its actually quite nice, a small sense of camaraderie as people try to encourage everyone else to contribute.
That and since Lemmy is open source and federated, I feel more comfortable here than Reddit
Contributing does little to help the issue at the moment, as the hot and active sort has crashed and stopped updating since a couple of days ago.
Until that’s fixed, most users will be presented with the same posts every time they visit lemmy.world
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Recommend subscribing to some communities local and federated, and then showing your subscriptions, so you’re not viewing only a local silo
Sort by new. This isn’t reddit.
How do you feel about posts about how people feel?
it’s feelings, all the way down
Or posts about posting more?
gotta sort by new
There is a bug in the Lemmy backend causing hot and active ordering to give you stale posts in the frontpage. Switch to New and enjoy the A C T I V I T Y
Warning: the frontpage will update very fast
fast as fuck boi
Hot and Active are currently broken, making the sites seem far less active than they actually are. Sorting by new is much more interesting. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076
I was struggling to understand why hot and active were showing only posts from days ago. I like both kbin and Lemmy though. Lemmy feels a bit more like classic Reddit to me.
Imho it’s boring because “active” is the default and works differently from reddit. It shows you active posts, as in posts that have a lot of new comments. This leads to some posts being on the front page for days.
The filter “hot” is supposed to be like reddit, but is currently broken on a lot of instances.
For the best experience I strongly recommend kbin.social since they have a working “hot” as their default giving you the most reddit-like experience out of all the instances I’ve tried.
Even the reddit was dead at its starting ages. Supporting lemmy and kbin eventhough its not perfect is the best.
Reddit also had their employees using alts to stimulate the site, the more you post the more other people post.
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I’m subbed to a lot of communities & use Subscribed + New as my default sort.
What could help fighting the impression you have is subscribing to many communities that are interesting to you. Then turn your settings on “subscribed-new”. That should give you plenty of new content. If you need more, check “local-new” and if that also is not enough take “all-new”. This way you will have so much content that it will be like a waterfall and you are right under it.
I was feeling the same way until i browsed by New and found some interesting communities, plus subscribing to the ones that migrated or were similar to the ones i was subscribing on Reddit. Now i find interesting stuff but without that many memes, which is what actually sells lemmy to me tbh.
Don’t worry, it’ll become more lively as time goes on! Once Reddit is even more hostile to its userbase, we will have more people here.
I mean, it’s kinda in it’s first week of real content output so there’s obviously not gonna be a lot here yet
