I find that Hot and Active give you really old stuff, at least on my instance, that’s like 3-7 days old stuff. New is just new, you know new, no community-assured quality. Top is stuff I’ve already seen. Where do I get a better feed? Can we have like Top 7 hours? Or a mixture of “top 16 hours” and “active”?

What do you do when browsing Lemmy? What are some of your strategies to get good shit while being here? Cuz so far if I try and use the front pages I get bored to shit.

The way I get anything barely worth interacting with from the front page is New Comments. Not the best, but better than the other options I discussed.

That or just, instead of interacting with a lot of stuff, interacting deeply with the few things I find that I like.

  • SolidGrue@lemmy.world
    352·
    2 years ago

    First, this isn’t reddit, sort by Subscribed / New.

    Second, subscribe to stuff and don’t be afraid to subscribe at the same time to smaller communities on other instances. Yes, you cannot group them by topic Yet™, but it’s on the road map.

    • SolidGrue@lemmy.world
      301·
      2 years ago

      Following up:

      Third: Don’t lurk! We need content here. Be a contributor, and don’t worry about what people think. Sieze your moment, and cry, “FIRST! I posted that here.”

      • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
        112·
        2 years ago

        Bruh you’re talking to God@sh.itjust.works. He couldn’t lurk if he were paid a million bucks to do so. This guy has shit to say.

          • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
            51·
            2 years ago

            you voted with your silence!!! i am the ruler of all, why didn’t you say anything 1 quintillion years ago when i declared myself king of existence? now it is too late, you should’ve spoken up, this is a democracy after all 🥰

        • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
          21·
          2 years ago

          <3 was i noticed

          or wasnt i

          or was i

          🌻 taking petals out of this flower to find out

          • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
            51·
            2 years ago

            Man you got almost 500 comments and 50 posts in 10 days. And you’re funny. You’re putting me to shame and I’ve really been trying.

            Btw you ever watch My Mister?

            • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
              41·
              2 years ago

              You’re putting me to shame and I’ve really been trying.

              😳

              well i didn’t know it was hard, maybe i’m just a shitposter cuz i don’t think about it much, i just go for it, and i try not to leave any comment unanswered, even if the answer is only partial. i do have some training in shitpostery. It was at the shitposter special forces on steemit.com where you got money for shitposting a shitton. I guess I kept the habit of never shutting up cuz that’s what brings dem monies over there.

              • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
                22·
                2 years ago

                Lmao hey man, whatever works. Sh.itpost away if it’s stimulating engagement on this platform. We gotta get to at least a million users before I start to relax and feel like Lemmy is here to stay

                • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
                  0·
                  2 years ago

                  Lol do consider that steem and hive never even got to a million and they stayed. They have had at their top, each, around 60-100k active users per day or month, not very sure. Lemmy is a long way from that, true, but you don’t reaaally need a million to consider a platform stable. Especially one like this that has such fast feedback for your actions. Attention junkies are gonna drown this shit once they find out how rewarding it is to be here. Long story short: don’t worry, we good :)

                  • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
                    1·
                    2 years ago

                    Yeah I don’t even know about steem and hive. Listen, I feel great about where we are at, we just made it into the top 5 biggest fediverse platforms. But I also expected more people to come over during the reddit blackout, tbh.

                    There is a whole spectrum of social media sites, and we need to at least 10x to provide something close to the range of discussion that you used to find on reddit. This is great right now, but I also want to continue building and reach the next phase at some point. I’m ambitious yo. We are going to bring reddit to it’s knees so that spez can suck my dick.

            • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
              21·
              2 years ago

              I haven’t but if you say it’s good i’ll watch it. It’s on my recommended list sometimes but there’s just so much in it that it’s not owo. brb someone prayed for me

              • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                2 years ago

                I’m not super into kdramas but that’s one of the handful that I watched and something about it resonated with me. Like seriously resonated I was crying like a baby lol

      • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
        2·
        2 years ago

        :) I have thought that, and then I forget it, then I think about it again, it’s hard not to fall back to lurker. Then again, I do provide a shitton of content a lot of the time, I just haven’t gotten the hang of doing it even more!