Why is my Lemmy experience feeling so lame?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨SPOOSER@lemmy.today⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩

I’ve subscribed to a plethora of communities that really interest me and actually have posts and discussions in them, but I have to go to the specific community to see this. My “Subscribed” feed only contains a few of the same posts that I’ve seen for weeks in Hot, the same posts from even longer ago in “Active”, posts from the same communities as the ones in “Hot” in New and no other communities, and pretty much only posts from the Meme’s community I unsubscribed from when sorted by “All”. I also see a majority of posts barely have upvotes or comments on them at all from the “bigger” communities. Is this just the growing pains of this site? Am I still doing lemmy wrong? Is it the instance I’ve chosen to join?

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Wander@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The Hot timeline becomes stale if the lemmy server isn’t restarted every 6 hours or so, which takes 10 seconds but can’t be done on larger instances such as lemmy.world because it kills the queue of outgoing activity.

This is a known bug and is being worked on. For the time being you should try with “top 6 hours” and “top 12 hours” sorting.

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- SPOOSER@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I appreciate the sorting suggestion! I’ll try that. I understand that Lemmy isn’t as big as Reddit, but I swear there are more people than my feed is leading me to believe.
  
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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s great information. Thank you so much!
  
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  - harry_assman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Dito, thanks a lot for the technical background which makes sense @Wander@yiffit.net . I was also running into this staleness of the timeline and was wondering,
    
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- Dnn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  If that’s true it should really be stickied by am admin. That’s crucial info.
  
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fujiwood@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You’re not going to like what I’m about to say.

You’re part of the problem. You can fix it though.

Ready?

You need to make original content for the communities you are apart of and stop expecting others to provide you the conent you want. Because if that’s what everyone did, then there would be absolutely nothing here.

That’s just the way it is right now. There’s not enough original content creators on Lemmy yet.

What does original content mean? It doesn’t mean reposts from other websites. It doesn’t mean articles from other websites. The original content was already posted by the writers of the articles, on the original website. It doesn’t mean comments you make. My comment here isn’t original content. It’s a reaction.

Original content is something you make. You baked some sourdough bread? Post. You made a chair from wood? Post. You made something out of leather? Post. You took a nice photo? Post. You made some digital art? Post. You drew a sketch of a building? Post. You did “insert hobby”? Post. You’re a collector of this niche thing? Post.

The truth is, original content can be hard and time-consuming. It takes a certain mind to want to post original content. If everyone here would make just one original content post, I think that would help make Lemmy a better social media site.

Be the change.

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- Imgonnatrythis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Is there a look at my turd sub, because that’s about the level that 99% of users will contribute to IF prodded. Beyond that, the “it’s you, your the problem it’s you” argument will not produce change. It’s simply a numbers game. Need to get enough users that 1% producing content is still a lot of content. Awareness / marketing tactics can help. Mention Lemmy on reddit boards and threads or whatever the kids are using, (instabook?). Oh, also someone needs to get some money and get some famous people on here. I could give a damn what they say, but the youth hang on their every word. Get that rapper guy or one of the telltubbies or something talking about Lemmy and you’ll get people to flock.
  
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  - fujiwood@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That isn’t true. It is not a numbers game. Reddit didn’t start off with numbers. Facebook didn’t start off with numbers. Tumblr didn’t start off with numbers. Twitter didn’t start off with numbers.
    
    They all started small. Growing gradually. People stayed because they enjoyed the content and the community.
    
    Hype and influence only attract a certain type of person. Fools. That will just create an inferior community. You’ll have a digital Fyre Festival that way.
    
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WackyTabbacy42069@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
There’s just not as many people here as there is on Reddit. Things will be slow for as long as we don’t have large numbers. Best thing you can do to make things better is engage frequently and spread the good word of Lemmy

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- SPOOSER@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Thanks, I’ll keep trying to do my part to grow my favorite communities on Lemmy.
  
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fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Once clients add “mark read on scroll” this may go away, too.

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deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Content aggregation is a WIP around here. Reddit had very similar issues in its early days. Give it time.

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- SPOOSER@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The amount of responses in this post have been extremely reassuring. I honestly just felt like I was using the site alone with a bunch of bots lol
  
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- Sabata11792@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Big companys dump millions into a perfect algo to milk engagement and ad views. Right now the priority seems to be security and stability before moving on to features. Lemmy blew up pretty much over night. Its going to take time and volunteers to improve.
  
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RunAwayFrog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Sort by “best” is coming to Lemmy, in case you didn’t know.

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- Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s great
  
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Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m shocked you have had any discussions at all, quite frankly. Step outside of the some of these more visited subs and you see threads that are many days or weeks old with 0 replies. And lots of them at that. It doesn’t make you want ot contribute because you know you won’t get any replies either, so that kind of perpetuates the problem. You need a certain critical mass of visitors to a sub to get it going and sustain itself.

Also, I too have noticed that the same threads appear over and over again, days later. I can’t imagine there is such little traffic that more posts aren’t getting posted, but who knows.

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SJ0@lemmy.fbxl.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’ve been preferring new or top X hours ago, then just choose the X for the last time you visited.

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bloopinator@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This place is lame because it’s somehow even more obsessed with politics than Reddit. It’s draining to go to a social media site and constantly be subjected to negative headlines.

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- codapine@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m subscribed to a few meme communities, a few news communities and special interest. I browse on Subscribed and if I see no fresh posts I look through All for a bit. If I see nothing of interest/new then I stop lurking for a bit and come back later.
  
  If you’re seeing too much xyz, it’s because you’re subscribed to too many xyz communities.
  
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  - lemming007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The problem with browsing Subscribed is that the subs I’m interested are dead/have very low activity. The problem with browsing All is that it’s infested with politics and negativity.
    
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ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I sort by new comments and that does pretty well.

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