• thebeardedpotato@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      28 days ago

      LOL

      I was actually thinking about my experience with Lemmy as I was reading this article, particularly how the scrolling is made to generate rage. I don’t filter my feed and just view “all”, but I don’t think I’ve once walked away from Lemmy not in a bad mood.

      Now that may be observation bias or something, or a function of how I don’t tailor my own experience, but regardless, Lemmy leaves me angrier when I leave then when I open the app. I’m trying to cut back and eventually quit.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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        28 days ago

        Viewing all? Yeah there’s your problem. Subscribe to things you want to see, and never even think about the rest.

      • xthexder@l.sw0.comEnglish
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        28 days ago

        Setting up my own instance ended up being pretty good for me since it meant I had to manually subscribe to every community I want. The quality of “All” posts depends heavily on the instance you’re on.

          • xthexder@l.sw0.comEnglish
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            28 days ago

            If you’re on an instance with only 1 user, they’re the same thing. But yes, Lemmy’s a lot better if you just subscribe to what you want.

            • Flagstaff@programming.devEnglish
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              28 days ago

              What? No, use “All” to browse through federated instances and then subscribe to any interesting communities across the whole Fediverse. Then stick to the “subscribed” feed and only occasionally recheck “All” if you’re bored and looking for new communities with none in particular; otherwise, run searches for them.

              • xthexder@l.sw0.comEnglish
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                27 days ago

                Let me explain how it works when you self host like me:

                • “All” starts out completely empty, there are no federated instances to find this way.
                • You then have to browse communities on other instances and subscribe to them on your own instance. Only then will posts start showing up in “All”.
                • Since there’s only 1 user, the list of communities in “All” is the exact same list of communities in “Subscribed”

                For most people yes, you can just browse “All” unless you’re on a smaller instance, since someone on your Instance has probably already subscribed to the community you’re looking for.

  • spikey@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    28 days ago

    I was so fed up with IG and explored mastodon/pixelfed for a bit, and it felt like a lot of weight off my shoulder when looking at the feed(s) knowing that there is no machinery feeding me straightup BS. The “feed” was behaving exactly as it used to during the days when RSS was a thing (remember those?).

    like… wow… I have control over this! and I don’t have to spend too much energy filtering off BS. That convinced to explore alternatives like Lemmy.

    I joined today. :)

  • azalty@jlai.luEnglish
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    27 days ago

    No algorithm makes social networks so annoying. Lemmy is so much annoying because of this. I always see the same stuff, aka US news and some shitposts, the usual upvoted and trending stuff

    There’s no discovery algorithm and no way to see posts from smaller subscribed communities easily. Each sorting method returns non-interesting posts.