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Is there a way to have a less depressing Lemmy experience?
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this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2025
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Yes and no, since lemmy has a smaller user base certain type of content will have a much higher presence than reddit. And when 5 instances are all posting from the same source, that will saturate the platform.
If every new user immediately gets turned off by it, because curating your homepage is like step 2, then lemmy will continue struggling with retaining new users.
Lemmy doesn't really have enough users for the same type of mindless only scrolling in communities you like from what I've seen. On reddit I'm subscribed to 2 drama subs Gentoo sub and a few others. There is enough content in that for me to just scroll that instead of all.
on the other hand here I find my subscriptions literally don't get new posts. It's fine I'm getting used to it but it means I'm using the all equivalent far more often.
I use all a lot too but I still curate my subscriptions when I want a calmer experience (500+ subscriptions mind).
One trick is to sometimes sort by scaled which allows posts from less active communities to rise
Yeah it's a shame. I still like it better than reddit but damn. Civilization 7 is coming out in a few days and I haven't seen a single post.
Make one! I'm sure you're not the only one here anticipating it. !games@sh.itjust.works
Edit:fixed link