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Returning to the fediverse is hard. (piefed.world)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by CaffeineTwo@piefed.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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With Reddit just announcing ai mods for sub reddits I think it’s finally time I fully give it up. I’ve been slowly trying to transition back into the fediverse but damn is it hard sometimes. Listen I have left leaning politics but does every other post have to be about some political shit on the all tab, I feel like I’m forced into this box that is my subscribed feed or I have to actively search out new communities because all is just a political circle jerk that I don’t care about. Not to mention the moment I came back I saw a fucking flow chart on the instances drama of the week. If I wasn’t so dedicated to dropping Reddit I think the average Joe would have left by now seeing all of this. And YES I have been trying to be the change I want to see if you check my profile I regularly post in meme subs non political just funny memes to be like “lmao” and people can move about their day. I’m not saying there ISNT other type of content on lemmy or piefed it just feels like the stuff that floats to the top is political

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[-] stopforgettingit@lemmy.world 48 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I did a couple things to make my life comfy here.

I changed my default sort to be "new comments" - this gave me the biggest perspective change on Lemmy, I now see where the active conversations are and it makes the place feel more full of people and less pages and pages of empty threads. I also found a lot less political stuff this way, because it gets posted a lot but people only interact with just a few of the political posts, so only those one end up floating to the top. I am finding myself getting less politics this way on Lemmy than I was on reddit. Also has the added bonus of highlighting where the active communities are.

I blocked Lemmy.ml and hexbear. A lot of the wilder leftist stuff comes from them and once it was blocked I saw the amount of politics in my feed drop right away.

[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"New Comments" is underrated! Active is pretty good too. For my default I use Subscribed+Scaled so I don't miss anything, but if I'm looking for engagement I use New Comments or Active. The Hot sort kinda sucks on Lemmy lol, it's too similar to New. But OP is on PieFed, IDK how Hot is there, it uses different math.

[-] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 days ago

Subscribed+Scaled is my jam too. I've unsubscribed from a few of the news communities because I've seen the same post too many times but otherwise, all is pretty good here.

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago

I’m surprised how many people use subscribed+scaled. I’ve been doing that as soon as the scaled feature was added.

[-] vogi@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Love sorting by "new comments" I believe old message boards where also sorted like that on default? or maybe im misremembering. Sadly PieFed does not have that yet :(

I dont like that posts from 24h ago are already forgotten and you never really get a broader perspective on things because I think people (me included) don't bother commenting on stuff nobody will see as its not "Hot" anymore. I would love to see threads/posts being active for a longer time.

I also like piefeds "Active" algorithm. It does filter out alot of circle jerk content where there really is not much to talk about instead of agreeing.