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I'm subbing to anything that seems remotely interesting but I'll probably end up pruning the list eventually. The same thing happened when I joined reddit back in 2010. I was so excited to read about everything and then realized I didn't actually care that much about the individual topics.
I'm at 60 which already feels like too much
Yeah I'll no doubt do the same. A lot of them are duplicate communities for small topics that splintered off instead of joining forces, so I'm just keeping an eye on them all until one becomes the "winner".
The problem is I don't want to be buried in content. I just want an acceptable amount for the things I am interested in.
I'm subscribed to seven and none of them are very populated. I want a bit more to browse through, but I want it in those particular pockets. I'm pushing myself out of my comfort zone to be more active in the areas I'm interested in (and even have anything to say about).
I'm also not a fan of the big communities, joined a couple of them when I first got here and quickly unsubbed since they get spammy and you can usually see their stuff in All anyway. For the smaller, not populated enough ones, I've just been making a conscious effort to help seed some content and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't! π€·ββοΈ Bear in mind as well some of those tiny communities might have duplicates so you could keep an eye on all of them without actually adding new topics to your feed.
Iβm subscribed to 50 total communities / magazines across Lemmy and kbin and honestly, almost every time I hit refresh (while using subscribed and sort by new - I understand there are some front page bugs) I get new stuff to read or look at.
I havenβt felt like itβs dead here since I signed up and the engagement has just gotten better as people get more comfortable with whichever software theyβre using (either Lemmy, kbin, or even Mastodon). Itβs not an overwhelming amount of posts like trying to read Reddit by New.
And I look regularly for other communities I might be interested in.
Yeah same experience. A lot of mine are duplicates of really small niche communities who are all competing to get off the ground, figure I may as well subscribe to all of them and not miss anything until one emerges victorious!
On one instance I have subbed to 136 communities. This was my first instance I joined and just looking for any communities that looked interesting.
I originally tried to duplicate that in the new instances I signed up on, but eventually gave up finding it to be too tedious.
At some point, on my main instance/account I started weeding out communities that were not as exciting or active as I was hoping for.
On some newer instances, I keep to a handful of subject matters based on the instance's primary community subjects (ex: startrek.website)
I have only played around with kbin a few times and have had a more difficult time initially setting it up and subscribing to magazines, but that's where I came across this thread.
I am eager to see app development for lemmy and kbin since I enjoy browsing casually from my phone. Half the time I am on Jerboa, the other half on the PWA for lemmy. Just started using the kbin PWA.
I like having multiple instances to view different content that may not be available due to defederation (beehaw) and I sometimes find new communities on one instance that don't populate from another (possible bug?)
As for my main interests, I am subbed to all instance versions of that community (news, gaming, etc) since they all have good but separate threads and interactions.
My hope is, that once a third-party app that is able to combine and standardize my viewing and search preferences, I will switch to that and only keep maybe 2 or 3 accounts to seperate professional vs personal interests, vs straight up casual and unorganized viewing.
Gotta say, we are massive outliers so far!
Hypothesis: Futurama fans subscribe to more communities, possibly due to an unshakeable sense of loneliness and despair brought on by Jurassic Bark? π€
Wow. I'm subscribed to 13, and only one will be left of 5 of those once I figure out which is the best replacement for the defederated !Literature@beehaw.org.
~160 communities would be too much for me. If something isn't my active interest, I prefer putting it into my locally hosted MediaWiki.
Too many interests most of which are quite small and niche is definitely a major problem in more than one area of my life lol, Lemmy is just the latest π
Iβm on 22 so far after 6 days. I used to be on lots of subreddits but pared it right back as too many of the comments sections were toxic.
So far not had that issue here so hopefully can stay subbed to a few more communities and enjoy the experience.
Around 20 but due to small amount of new content I am browsing all new
Solid strat for finding new stuff
That's what I'm doing at the moment.
56
Ok I'm starting to think the answer to the question "am I just subbed to way more stuff than most?" is yes, haha!
17 subscriptions. They have had 7 posts in the last 12 hours... definitely pretty empty compared to reddit.
Gotta get those numbers up my friend :D
People need to make active communities I'm interested in, cause I'm not making them. Only a couple subs I'm missing from reddit though, more just want more activity in the existing ones. And I don't care to start threads...
You gotta post and engage dude, active communities don't just spring up out of thin air.
There might be fewer posts total but I've gotten tons more individual engagement on the verse than I ever did on reddit. The people here seem to actually want to talk about things. A lot of the reddit communities are so big that I never bothered posting in them at all because it was just lost to the noise.
I'm at 41 on Lemmy.
Rookie numbers!
Trying to avoid memes. They are a time suck.
Very true. pointed look at the Risa community
Looks like I need to catch up. 5 days in and subbed to about 25 communities.
It's not a race! At least while I'm still winning, anyway...
Fifty-ish range I think? No more than several dozen.
What I found helped more than anything else was to switch to kbin. The sorting algorithm just seems to work WAY better over there. Lemmy was not scratching my reddit itch, but kbin is.
Yes, I am aware of the Lemmy bug with Hot sort. That's already fixed on lemm.ee. Still didn't work as well as kbin.
No competitiveness with Kbin here lol, I just picked the one that has the UI I prefer. Now that your federation issue is sorted it makes no odds at all! Glad there's the two different options so people can just pick whatever works :D
Not as many as I should be. Clicking links to mags/comms often opens them in a new window that I'm not logged into, then the login screen freezes.
Do I win with 204?
Here you go bro, thank you for not making me feel like a tryhard.
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15 magazines.
I'm subbed to 19 communities. It's not a lot, so there's not a lot going on in my Subscribed feed and I'm still using the All feed most of the time.
One, it would be two but the second one has been pending for like 24 hours and I don't know what that means.
I mostly perfer to browse /all anyway and block what Im not into vs only seeing what I think Id like
Fair enough! For reference though I think the "pending" bug is just a visual thing and you're actually subscribed anyway. I have a few of those (mostly from .ml) but they show up in the subscribed feed just fine.
Hey you're right!!
Thanks for the tip, I am actually subscribed! I thought It was because of my very very limited internet lol
Happy to help! See, all this subscribing I've been doing has led to some useful things learned and therefore hasn't been a total waste of the last 12 days of my life π
166 and my feed looks nice and busy :)
I accidentally added one just after writing this post, but you're still beating me by two.
Ding ding ding we have a new winner! π
Thank you, I'll take my prize in the form of another Warhammer sub.
Weirdly I'm subbed to 162, so almost exactly the same. Not sure of the kbin/lemmy breakdown.
Most of the communities are still really small or inactive but I'm subbed in the hope they develop in the next few weeks or so.
Glad to see some bigger numbers rolling in I was starting to think I was clinically insane.
Huh, I donβt think I subscribed to anything.
Iβm mostly browsing Hot in kbin and itβs provided me a seemingly endless stream of content which I just commented and voted on the whole day.
Just now I discovered the part where I could even subscribe wayyy at the bottom of the page where I had not ventured before on mobile.
Haha, well, whatever works for you! We're the exact opposite, I HATE not having my own curated feed. But it takes all sorts, as they say π