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I've subscribed to a plethora of communities that really interest me and actually have posts and discussions in them, but I have to go to the specific community to see this. My "Subscribed" feed only contains a few of the same posts that I've seen for weeks in Hot, the same posts from even longer ago in "Active", posts from the same communities as the ones in "Hot" in New and no other communities, and pretty much only posts from the Meme's community I unsubscribed from when sorted by "All". I also see a majority of posts barely have upvotes or comments on them at all from the "bigger" communities. Is this just the growing pains of this site? Am I still doing lemmy wrong? Is it the instance I've chosen to join?

UPDATE I want to thank everyone who posted and gave me helpful advice on this matter. It turns out that there are still lots of people here on Lemmy with me, I just couldn't see you because I was sorting my feed incorrectly. I'm excited that there are more people here and I'm excited to continue to contribute to Lemmy with you! Thank you all for the help, I really appreciate it. The solutions are to continue to subscribe, contribute to my favorite communities, and sort by top day, 12, and 6 hours. It really helped liven up my feed!

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[–] hitagi@ani.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have to sort by "New" because "Hot" is almost always broken. I get posts from two years ago :/ If I sort by "New" however, some of the posts are pretty... eh?

[–] TheWorstNL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hot sorting algorithm is bugged at the moment. Older posts don't cool down until the server is restarted so they keep popping up. It is currently fixed for the version to be released.

More technical info here and here.

[–] Astroturfed@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What, you don't like all the crazy fury porn? Cuz I mean, if you don't like fury porn..... Ya there's a lot of it.

[–] SPOOSER@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have, thankfully, seemed to have avoided a lot of the furry porn. If you like it, more power to you! I'm thankful I can avoid that kind of content!

[–] Astroturfed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I've blocked, so, so many communities browsing all. It's wild.

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

I've never really used it (I'm not very into micro blogging), as someone else said Lemmy is to Reddit as mastodon is to what Twitter used to be

It's a more complex system of federation than Lemmy, my understanding is that Lemmy is more tightly federated, but mastodon has additional mechanisms to spread posts through the network.

I might get more into microblogging when I add kbin support I might get into it - I've found learning enough about something to write code for it often ends with an appreciation for the thing. If that happens I'll do a similar server experience post somewhere

[–] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

I sort by new comments and that does pretty well.

[–] Xylarthen@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I had the same issue with Lemmy, so I use Kbin more these days because it seems to be better at getting interesting posts I haven't seen before. I'm sure the Lemmy devs will get to it though.

[–] Hypx@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@Xylarthen

@SPOOSER Getting the algorithm right is a challenge. Reddit struggled to get a balance of both interesting topics while keeping spam off of the front-page. Kbin/Lemmy will have the same problem. Kbin seems to do a better job than Lemmy IMO, but it still lets too many memeposts/shitposts on the front page. You still have to block the worse offenders.

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

Ugh... Thanks for the catch, that's one less bug making it to the beta.

The frustrating thing is I specifically remember looking this up when I was writing the function, because it was weird to me that images were the opposite order

My renderer handled both though, so I might not have noticed for a while

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