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mojo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I had been using Masotodon as my main social media before, but gladly find myself on Lemmy a whole lot more. Masotodon is certainly not my type of social media, the Twitter format and lack of algorithm kills it for me. Lemmy fills that Reddit gap, and Sync makes it feel like I’m on Reddit again. Though the website has a long ways to go. Lemmy still has a lot of features to go and things to figure out to be a Reddit killer, but I feel confident we’ve hit a healthy size and are relatively stable right now.
Biggest thing I think that needs to get worked on though is to give smaller communities better visibility. You almost never see them because they get buried by the popular communties.
I’m not sure how Reddit did it, but they’d show smaller communities to show up on Hot feed pretty often to give them more exposure. We need a form of that.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 year ago
StoicLime@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Its not as good as it sounds. There should be some kind of sorting. I follow #food but I get low-quality content of any random user taking a picture of their refrigerator at the top of my feed just because they posted 1s ago.
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Do you follow many people? I used to have that issue when I first signed up and was just looking at my entire fedirated feed. Since paring it down to local or follows only, it’s a lot nicer while retaining some of that cozy vibe that I like.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ah, I see. I’ve never used those platforms, but I always thought that I could just see a newsfeed with posts of people I follow.
static_motion@programming.dev 1 year ago
You can, but the feeds that are supposed to help you find people to follow in the first place are important, and Mastodon’s are awful.
Kelteseth@feddit.de 1 year ago
One thing you can do is to subscribe to tags (does not work in the Android app) when searching for them. Then you will get more than just the posts you subscribed to. This is somewhat ok, but I also would like a feed for things I could be interested in…
Rambler@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I wasn’t even aware lemmy had tags. Never used it on pc.
notabird@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Chronological timeline doesn’t really work unless you build a highly curated list. Not many people used Twitter that way.
Rambler@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m guessing that would be tagging people then rather than topics of interest? Probably not missing much if that’s the case.
PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m with you. I recently jumped on mastodon and can’t get into the Twitter style. I follow a few things of interest but it’s like comparing cable TV programming with Netflix, I don’t want to be told what to watch but I need a nudge and structure to wade around in (if that makes sense).