• centof@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Blocking some of the meme communities is a big help in that regard.

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      1 year ago

      Or just switch your default timeline to “subscribed”

      “All” was always terrible on reddit, that hasn’t changed here.

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        1 year ago

        imo there isn’t enough content on Lemmy to only whitelist certain communities. I prefer to just block the extra stuff I don’t want. All is fine if you take out most the low effort communities. I only have 10 or so communities blocked and it makes a noticeable difference. Much easier than subscribing to a bunch of communities for me.

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          there isn’t enough content on Lemmy to only whitelist certain communities

          This is really the central problem. There’s way fewer posts on any given Lemmy/fediverse network compared to the major players, and I’ve been conditioned by the last 13 years I spent on reddit to have constant interactive stimuli and discussion based on my interests. That doesn’t exist here because the communities are so small. Admittedly, yeah, I could post. But I’ve always been a commenter on existing discussions, not someone who wants to start the discussions myself.

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          The relative lack of content on Lemmy, for me, has been a boon. I go through New, then Top 6 Hours, then Top 12 Hours, then I need to find something else to do. When I was on Reddit, I found myself bouncing between Reddit and YouTube for entertainment. With Lemmy not having boundless amounts of crap to scroll through and no algorithm, my tech usage is far more varied.

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          There is for me. And (almost) nothing I subscribe to are those non-low-effort communities.

          I also don’t doom scroll for hours at a time, so maybe that’s partly why.

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        I like to sometimes just open up other interest-focused instances and check their local feeds for anything interesting. A “subscribed instances” feed would provide a decent balance, in my opinion.