I’ve been on Lemmy for 12 days apparently, feels like a lifetime! And I keep seeing posts about how it’s too empty or there’s no content outside of the Reddit drama or whatever.
So it got me thinking, am I just subbed to way more stuff than most? Because I go into the “all” tab maybe once a day, and keep busy in “subscribed” the rest of the time.
Here’s my stats:
- 121 Lemmy communities
- 42 Kbin magazines
- 163 total
That’s for this account, although I also have a second account for slightly different topics so there’s probably another 20-30 or so unique subs on there.
How about you?
Do I win with 204?
I’m subscribed to 50 total communities / magazines across Lemmy and kbin and honestly, almost every time I hit refresh (while using subscribed and sort by new - I understand there are some front page bugs) I get new stuff to read or look at.
I haven’t felt like it’s dead here since I signed up and the engagement has just gotten better as people get more comfortable with whichever software they’re using (either Lemmy, kbin, or even Mastodon). It’s not an overwhelming amount of posts like trying to read Reddit by New.
And I look regularly for other communities I might be interested in.
Fifty-ish range I think? No more than several dozen.
What I found helped more than anything else was to switch to kbin. The sorting algorithm just seems to work WAY better over there. Lemmy was not scratching my reddit itch, but kbin is.
Yes, I am aware of the Lemmy bug with Hot sort. That’s already fixed on lemm.ee. Still didn’t work as well as kbin.
On one instance I have subbed to 136 communities. This was my first instance I joined and just looking for any communities that looked interesting.
I originally tried to duplicate that in the new instances I signed up on, but eventually gave up finding it to be too tedious.
At some point, on my main instance/account I started weeding out communities that were not as exciting or active as I was hoping for.
On some newer instances, I keep to a handful of subject matters based on the instance’s primary community subjects (ex: startrek.website)
I have only played around with kbin a few times and have had a more difficult time initially setting it up and subscribing to magazines, but that’s where I came across this thread.
I am eager to see app development for lemmy and kbin since I enjoy browsing casually from my phone. Half the time I am on Jerboa, the other half on the PWA for lemmy. Just started using the kbin PWA.
I like having multiple instances to view different content that may not be available due to defederation (beehaw) and I sometimes find new communities on one instance that don’t populate from another (possible bug?)
As for my main interests, I am subbed to all instance versions of that community (news, gaming, etc) since they all have good but separate threads and interactions.
My hope is, that once a third-party app that is able to combine and standardize my viewing and search preferences, I will switch to that and only keep maybe 2 or 3 accounts to seperate professional vs personal interests, vs straight up casual and unorganized viewing.
I’m curious why you have multiple instance accounts that you switch between? You can view all of the fediverse from one account if you pick an instance that is federated with every community you want to see.
As most reddit refugees I didn’t know how the fediverse worked and I jumped over here a week or so preemptively before a lot of the information on how the fediverse worked was widely established. I was frustrated because initially I couldn’t add communities I was searching for and until people migrated over and made the community connections, the easiest way for me to see all the different communities out there was instance hopping. Now I know better and only really use one or two accounts because I am still having trouble viewing/posting things from certain ones. I chose to make a kbin account to see the variety in formatting and the different magazines available which are separate from Lemmy communities. Even yesterday, playing on kbin, I couldn’t view all the communities that I know are out there in the Lemmy part of the fediverse. I do, however enjoy the kbin UI. Lastly, if one server instance goes down permanently, by having a second account on a different instance, I won’t be completely lost or cut-off.
