In another thread, I read a user’s comment about how the lemmy experience has got progressively worse over the past few months, with a lot more trash content making it to their front page.
Is this your experience? How was lemmy when you joined and how do you think it’s changed?
It’s gotten better. A lot. More people means more content. Sure, I have to curate it a bit, but overall it’s better.
Completely agreed! Communities are getting stronger, consolidating repeats across instances, and providing helpful comments.
The other day I was going to post a link in a community, and then checked to see- it had already been posted! Brought a tear to my eye 🥹
Content is improving but the apps well! I’m currently using Voyager (wefwef) and it’s a lot better than when I started using it (around the great Reddit exodus).
The dev said they’d be scaling down support but it’s fine for now and even if it starts lagging behind for some reason there’s a couple of great alternatives as well (Avelon works very well for example).
Its my first day here. I’m having a good time. Thanks for asking.
Thanks. Feels good to be here. I know some people have mixed experiences but it really is neat seeing the fediverse come to life.
Being able to browse other federated sites from one app is cool as fuck too.
Yeah, it’s really cool. I’m way more active on Lemmy than I was on Reddit, and I keep thinking of a post made by @The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website. I’ve seen some people talking about stuff that is not OK/mixed experiences (see the whole thing about rqd2.net that happened TODAY here), but I’ve just kept myself in areas which are full of great people (coincidentally @The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website is one of those cool people).
The federated app thing is super cool tho lol
I decided to create a few threads after a few months hiatus and was surprised by the levels of engagement. I think the audience is hungry for content and that more people need to take the plunge and start threads.
With that said, going to /all instead of /subscribed is largely frustrating since the most frequent posts are just memes and inside jokes
A big part of this is the ranking algorithm. It doesn’t scale based on the size of the community so the large meme communities pretty much exclusively rise to the top. There’s a fix in the works I believe but I’m not sure where on the roadmap it is.
Mine’s gotten better, but it’s taken some curation to get there.
Since I joined Lemmy during the Reddit meltdown, the amount of quality content has steadily risen. I run a small instance (~25 users), so my “all” feed isn’t a deluge of everything under the sun. I also block bot accounts which reduces a lot of the crap (reposts, spammy comments, etc).
Hello fellow small instance admin.
I have a few hundred users but I’m pretty sure closer to 25 actually active lol
I thought All included posts from all instances in the Fediverse and that Local only showed posts originating in your local instance’s communities. Is that incorrect?
There’s a mechanic advice community that’s not memey…
can i have link please
It wouldn’t be so bad if the memes were good and at least sometimes original.
