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I don't know if others are experiencing a similar situation. My all feed is very sparse with engagement. If I sort top six hours or by top 12 most posts have between 5-10 comments. I feel like there was more in the past? Is engagement dropping off? I'm on lemmy.world as my instance.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Lemmy has way, way too much dross. Any user that pops in to check it out finds a billion foreign language posts, a billion weirdo anime shitposts and a billion Linux posts. It's a massive turnoff. I spent 6 months blocking communities that had zero interest to me and I'm left with news and Star Trek posts. I don't even like Star Trek but it's the only OC in this place.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I love star trek but 10 forward generates so much content that it becomes noise on the main feed. I'm also guilty of not contributing much though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You could just follow the communities you are actually interested in.

"All" was shit on reddit so it's going to be shit on any reddit replacement.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My subscribed list has, like, 4 posts a day. I browse all in a hope to see new communities I might like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I've found more communities that I like by browsing "Hot" and near the end of "top 6 hours" for what it's worth.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's precisely their point: once you filter out all of the noise, you are left with very, very, little substance. And the communities with any substance are active at a ratio that makes them flood your feed with ONLY those one or two topics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

IIRC: Devs added the new filter, "Scaled" for this exact reason. Gives newer and smaller communities a chance in the sun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Nice tip! I didn't know about that. Thanks.

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

It would be interesting to compare Lemmy to the community on Tildes. What do you think of Tildes?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I don't know Tildes. Never been there.