I hope we get better content. I’m really tired of all the posts on the frontpage being meta. Like i had to scroll to find anything about the student loan news. I go to reddit and boom I get actual content still.
… i want conversations about things that aren’t lemmy or reddit.
… memes are cool but man most of the frontpage that isn’t meta is memes.
… Fingers crossed it gets better soon.
I wanna believe that but on the other hand people won’t stop posting about Twitter either so I get a feeling we’ll keep seeing Reddit news until people are ACTUALLY over it
I joined Lemmy during the blackout. Obviously it was crazy for a few days, but the last week and a half has been news, memes, and real conversations. Really enjoying it here so far!
the sorting algorithm is not that great, but thats okay with me. I find it a lot better to be more intentional about what content I get, rather than let Reddit decide for me what to see.
So what I do is two things:
sort posts by “new”. This way I see a lot of variety of posts, and it is not biased by what other people like. Unfortunately it does remain biased towards more popular communities.
Go directly to certain communities and view posts there. I can sort by both “new” and “hot” or whatever the other ones are.
I find this better than the default. It is not the same as reddit, but it is fine with me until they develop a better algorithm. But I would not want a doomer scroll algorithm either like Reddit.
The “hot” front page STILL has posts from days ago.
I give it 3 days before people cave and go back. People will always find a way to get their dopamine fix. If lemmy doesn’t have what they want, suffering through the shitty Reddit app will be a cakewalk compared to giving up the habit altogether
while Lemmy is modeled after Reddit in a lot of ways, the fediverse in general has a big opposition to unhealthy social media habits. dooomer scroll addictive algorithms that try to keep you hooked on the app as long as possible for max ad revenue will likely never happen.
Some people will not like that, and it is fine. I’d prefer if they go rather than influence the platform in negative ways.
I hope we get better content. I’m really tired of all the posts on the frontpage being meta. Like i had to scroll to find anything about the student loan news. I go to reddit and boom I get actual content still.
… i want conversations about things that aren’t lemmy or reddit. … memes are cool but man most of the frontpage that isn’t meta is memes. … Fingers crossed it gets better soon.
I agree… but this is probably the last big reddit thing for a while, so I think the reddit and lemmy stuff will die down from now
I wanna believe that but on the other hand people won’t stop posting about Twitter either so I get a feeling we’ll keep seeing Reddit news until people are ACTUALLY over it
Well when you put it like that it makes me a bit worried too…
It’ll come. Early days of reddit I remember being annoyed at all digg posts.
I’m posting often in foodporn and my little communities.
I need to stop my Lurking habits and contribute. We need to all do our part to provide content
I created a bunch of communities. I’m trying to post on them but I need help. We need more contributors.
It’s a lot better once you start subbing to groups instead of just browsing the front page.
I joined Lemmy during the blackout. Obviously it was crazy for a few days, but the last week and a half has been news, memes, and real conversations. Really enjoying it here so far!
the sorting algorithm is not that great, but thats okay with me. I find it a lot better to be more intentional about what content I get, rather than let Reddit decide for me what to see.
So what I do is two things:
I find this better than the default. It is not the same as reddit, but it is fine with me until they develop a better algorithm. But I would not want a doomer scroll algorithm either like Reddit.
Agree, but it’ll die down. The whole reason that 90% of the people are here is because of reddit so it’ll stay news for a bit.
The “hot” front page STILL has posts from days ago.
I give it 3 days before people cave and go back. People will always find a way to get their dopamine fix. If lemmy doesn’t have what they want, suffering through the shitty Reddit app will be a cakewalk compared to giving up the habit altogether
while Lemmy is modeled after Reddit in a lot of ways, the fediverse in general has a big opposition to unhealthy social media habits. dooomer scroll addictive algorithms that try to keep you hooked on the app as long as possible for max ad revenue will likely never happen.
Some people will not like that, and it is fine. I’d prefer if they go rather than influence the platform in negative ways.
You’re right but Lemmy is still new for a lot of people.