I remember when I was on Reddit I would check it several times a day. But with Lemmy there doesn’t seem to be that much content popping up to justify that. I’m finding myself less addicted to the platform genre.
How often do you check Lemmy? What do you subscribe to that keeps you coming back?
For one, the lack of addiction causing algorithms is one great reason to use a platform like Lemmy. I certainly use Lemmy less than I used reddit, but now almost never go on reddit, so it’s been a net positive.
But with that said, I still check Lemmy multiple times a day. I try to comment on things, as this drives the conversations that make it enjoyable. I’ll laugh at memes like anyone but the conversations are more important for me.
So I have a browse through content using different views (Subscribed, Local, and All), then sort based on Active, Hot, and Scaled to see different things. If I’m checking for the first time in the morning I’ll check Top 12 hours, if I’m desperate for content I’ll browse Top 1 hour or even New. There are new posts every minute so there is definitely content coming through.
I then comment on interesting posts with whatever comes to mind, then wait for the notifications of replies to get the conversations going.
It seems like everyone enjoys Lemmy for the quality of content rather than the amount. People also seem to engage a lot more on Lemmy. There are just a lot less of us so maybe that’s why it seems less full of content.
I don’t filter All very often, perhaps that’s my problem. I’m stuck on my own island of content.
I spend most of my time in All. You get a lot of varied content. If you filter by Active, you see where conversations are happening.
There are definitely less people and therefore less niche content. About 50k active Lemmy users across all of Lemmy, vs 200M on reddit. But you get to know specific users here, if you find the right conversations.