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Be honest, do you still use reddit? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I used to check the front page at least once every day, and occassionally check specific subreddits. Now I don't look at reddit unless theres some drama, like mods getting purged, then I'd go there and enjoy the drama. Occasionally there will be questions that only reddit has the answer to so I have to reluctantly use it. I got my uBlock Origin ready to kill all the ads. That shitty website will not get a cent out of me.

What about you? Do you still use reddit?

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The problem is I like memes...I just don't want to ONLY see memes. It's just that Lemmy's sorting algorithm is not as robust as Reddit. With Reddit my subscription feed would show me all of my communities, even if there was a large difference in size of them. My small communities still showed up in my subscriptions feed because Reddit had a more balanced algorithm. With Lemmy, the most popular communities flood out all the others. If the devs made the sorting work better we could have a more balanced experience.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've found that the trick is not to actually sub to meme communities, even if you want to see them. That way you can browse your subscribed feed for all the discussion on the topics you want, but then you can switch over to All > Top Day or whatever and still end up seeing most of the memes in there because they're so popular.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah this is what I do. My subscribed feed is all news and discussion (and good discussion at that!), and then I go to All to see the memes. I first I subscribed to a meme community or two and it dominated my feed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I think this is ultimately what I'm going to have to do. A bit annoying but oh well!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Good point. I think the sorting algorithms should be the number one priority for Lemmy devs at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Seems quite the opposite for me. Every 1 in 3 posts are either discussion or news reports.

Edit: actually it looks more like every other post with sometime 6 or 7 continuous ones without a meme