I’m an example of a filthy casual reddit user who is really struggling to find value in lemmy. Finding an instance where local is of value is difficult, world may as well be “everything”, and “everything” is a nightmarish hodgepodge of memes for teenagers, furry porn, really niche technical discussions, and star Trek memes. I never stay in the app longer than a few minutes and I feel like I spend more time blocking weird porn communities than I do reading interesting articles.
The other major issue is having to sort through the exact same article 60 times because people cross post not only to local communities but then also the same communities are duplicated on every instance. I’m probably going to abandon this soon unless I can find some kind of curated community list to subscribe to or something.
I don’t really get all the “‘all’ is bad” discussion. Isn’t that what the “subscribed” feed is for? Just sub to the communities that interest you and browse from there. Just like it was back on Reddit.
The big difference is 1. Finding communities is not easy. Can you name every one of your interests off the top of your head? 2. Just punching in communities from reddit 1 for 1 doesn’t work. 3. Content and user base. There are no discussions for my favorite podcasts here and if there are where do I find them.
It took me a decade to build out a decent sub list on Reddit and I still stumble upon new interests now and again. I don’t know how to “stumble upon” decent communities on Lemmy and I’m sick of wading through cartoon horse cocks.
If you have a decent list from Reddit you can use https://sub.rehab to map Reddit to Lemmy / Kbin
If you just want to look for communities you can use https://browse.feddit.de
Takes some time to get everything set up but I honestly prefer having only stuff that interests me in my feed + no porn randomly popping up
One thing I don’t like about the approach of blocking things is that the frontpage of reddit still allowed some level of discovery. If something in a niche community got hot enough it would break into my feed even though I didn’t subscribe to that community. It was a cool way to expand my content on an occasional basis.
If I’m going to only view my subscribed list on lemmy then I have to also manually go out and intentionally discover new communities. That’s hard, because some of my favorite small reddit communities were ones I never would have thought to search for.
That got me very confused as I never had that happening on my Reddit feed. I had to go back to Reddit to notice that I actually had that setting disabled.
Anyway, I don’t think something like that would really work on Lemmy. Reddit has his algorithm that devours your privacy, chews on your data and spits out results that may or may not interests you. Lemmy is much more simple than that. IIRC it’s “algorithm” is little more than a logarithmic curve and the (very based) devs are committed to user privacy, so your data will never get analyzed, not even to sugar coat your feed. For me it’s a feature, though I get that not everyone might feel that way.
I mean, I use my LW account for local and lemm.ee for all (because it can see more posts). They are just… different, although I am getting pretty annoyed at the mass of r/politics level politcal discourse on the LW local feed.
What do you mean “it can see more posts”? I thought the point of world was that it was the general everything respiratory.
