Honestly. I was setup and subscribed to some initial communities within 2 hours of RIF going down. Literally my only complaint at this point is the relative lack of content.
Id like a filter for top of all time, but that’s honestly my only “complaint” im shocked at how developed this is, and the web app wefwef is a little too good lol
There is a “Top - All Time” filter at least on the web. Works well for local, not sure about off local though. Mobile apps might not have all the filters though.
It seems to show the posts with the most updoots. Curiously the first page of Top - All Time are all from the last few weeks. Goes to show the explosive influx of Reddit Refugees into the Fediverse.
Connect for Lemmy has a setting where it will hide posts the user has voted on. I believe the website has this as well. Works great for keeping content fresh rather than seeing the same posts about the Reddit migration.
I’ve been using Active, and it shows the posts with most engagement. It’s nice. Then I upvote or downvote the posts and on the next refresh they stay hidden (disabled show read posts on my instance).
One reason this happens if you made your account on a small instance is that your instance just isn’t federating with very many communities. If you’re the first from your instance to subscribe to a community, try this: Use an explorer like lemmyverse.net to find new communities, copy the url into your home instance’s search field, and it should appear in the results after a few seconds or a refresh. Click the search result and subscribe from there. From then on, that instance will populate everyone’s ‘All’ tab on your home instance with posts from that community, and ‘Subscribed’ if you remain subscribed
Could you explain this a bit more or link to some info? Im new here too, I thought the whole point was that different instances communicated which communities where hosted through them so It wouldn’t matter what instance you have your account with and you will be able to see the different communities from different instances.
And to get some jargon right, that intercommunication between instances is the fediverse.
The point is your instance doesn’t automatically pull every community in existence, it pulls from communities someone on your instance has already ubscribed to. So yes, you can subscribe to any community*, but you may need to be the first to actually find said community and subscribe no one else has.
When I browse my all feed I see posts from every community that anyone has ever subscribed to on my instance. But if I find one I like elsewhere I can be the first to manually connect (copy paste link) then more people can discover it since I basically added it to their “all” feed too.
Less confusing than I made it sound, and as the user base grows most of the big interesting communities will have been found and federated on instances with decent userbases.
It does matter where your account is because instances will not federate communities until someone from that instance subscribes to that community, and then it only pulls 20 posts and no comments. It will then start pulling everything new thats being posted/commented on that community, but anything before that is basically gone. This means that if you join a new/low userbase instance you will be missing a lot of stuff that was posted, while the larger instances will have way more people subscribed to communities before you even joined therefore having a larger content pool
Im not sure what kbins boost does or if theyre even the same as lemmy regarding this problem.
You could forcefully pull posts and comments into your instance by copying their original link and pasting it into your instances search, it will then federate to your instance after a few seconds but doing that for every post and comment would be stupid unless the admins cam somehow automate it
This is the current and unfortunate situation. I dearly hope that this will change soon, leveling the playing field for young instances, and improving discoverability.
There is content but finding and making use of it is kind of obnoxious at the moment. I am very hopeful that workarounds will soon be available to smooth it out. However being subscribed to some random communities doesn’t scratch the itch people have because the point is to have meaningful participation. Your own report is that you have not yet learned to use this platform to its potential.
I have been wondering what percentage of the smarty pants ppl bragging about how not-difficult lemmy is have simply failed to grasp it. It is inherently complex. It makes no sense because it was designed to accommodate significant dynamism. In the past few weeks, the partially-complete implementation has been pushed to the max. If you are satisfied with a small, narrow window onto that, you can pick it up pretty quick and keep it simple. But you are missing a lot too.
Nah, there just isn’t much content yet. I haven’t failed to grasp it, I’m subscribed to all of the relevant communities I’m interested in across multiple instances(ex: I’m subbed to like 5-6 of the most popular c/gaming). There just isn’t much in them yet.
Honestly. I was setup and subscribed to some initial communities within 2 hours of RIF going down. Literally my only complaint at this point is the relative lack of content.
Be part of the solution, make it 😉.
One of us. One of us.
Id like a filter for top of all time, but that’s honestly my only “complaint” im shocked at how developed this is, and the web app wefwef is a little too good lol
There is a “Top - All Time” filter at least on the web. Works well for local, not sure about off local though. Mobile apps might not have all the filters though.
It seems to show the posts with the most updoots. Curiously the first page of Top - All Time are all from the last few weeks. Goes to show the explosive influx of Reddit Refugees into the Fediverse.
Connect for Lemmy has a setting where it will hide posts the user has voted on. I believe the website has this as well. Works great for keeping content fresh rather than seeing the same posts about the Reddit migration.
Why do so many of you like this feature? Do you just never go back to the same thread more than once?
Only if somebody replies to my comments.
Wefwef sent me from concerned lemmy isnt quite ready to all in. Total 180.
It’s steadily getting better. Try looking at All instead of Local or Subscribed to see more
Also use Top day or Top X hours instead of Hot.
I’ve been using Active, and it shows the posts with most engagement. It’s nice. Then I upvote or downvote the posts and on the next refresh they stay hidden (disabled show read posts on my instance).
Do any of the apps support anything shorter than top>day yet?
Note that “all” is all communities someone on your instance has already subscribed too. Still check lemmyverse.net and others to find more.
Same. Choose an instance, sign up. You don’t really need to understand the federation stuff (although it helps understand the quirks).
I can see how having communities with the same name across different servers can be confusing for some people though.
Once you understand how federation works, it becomes clear.
A user account “lives” on an instance and communities “live” on one too.
One reason this happens if you made your account on a small instance is that your instance just isn’t federating with very many communities. If you’re the first from your instance to subscribe to a community, try this: Use an explorer like lemmyverse.net to find new communities, copy the url into your home instance’s search field, and it should appear in the results after a few seconds or a refresh. Click the search result and subscribe from there. From then on, that instance will populate everyone’s ‘All’ tab on your home instance with posts from that community, and ‘Subscribed’ if you remain subscribed
I’ve been using sub.rehab to find communities.
Could you explain this a bit more or link to some info? Im new here too, I thought the whole point was that different instances communicated which communities where hosted through them so It wouldn’t matter what instance you have your account with and you will be able to see the different communities from different instances. And to get some jargon right, that intercommunication between instances is the fediverse.
The point is your instance doesn’t automatically pull every community in existence, it pulls from communities someone on your instance has already ubscribed to. So yes, you can subscribe to any community*, but you may need to be the first to actually find said community and subscribe no one else has.
When I browse my all feed I see posts from every community that anyone has ever subscribed to on my instance. But if I find one I like elsewhere I can be the first to manually connect (copy paste link) then more people can discover it since I basically added it to their “all” feed too.
Less confusing than I made it sound, and as the user base grows most of the big interesting communities will have been found and federated on instances with decent userbases.
It does matter where your account is because instances will not federate communities until someone from that instance subscribes to that community, and then it only pulls 20 posts and no comments. It will then start pulling everything new thats being posted/commented on that community, but anything before that is basically gone. This means that if you join a new/low userbase instance you will be missing a lot of stuff that was posted, while the larger instances will have way more people subscribed to communities before you even joined therefore having a larger content pool
I know you can “boost” on kbin which will refederate it out. I think? Does lemmy have something similar?
What if you link me a post from before my instance federated with the community?
Im not sure what kbins boost does or if theyre even the same as lemmy regarding this problem.
You could forcefully pull posts and comments into your instance by copying their original link and pasting it into your instances search, it will then federate to your instance after a few seconds but doing that for every post and comment would be stupid unless the admins cam somehow automate it
This is the current and unfortunate situation. I dearly hope that this will change soon, leveling the playing field for young instances, and improving discoverability.
You got it right, sometimes there’s even communities with the same name on different instances.
Time to post some cat pictures!
There is content but finding and making use of it is kind of obnoxious at the moment. I am very hopeful that workarounds will soon be available to smooth it out. However being subscribed to some random communities doesn’t scratch the itch people have because the point is to have meaningful participation. Your own report is that you have not yet learned to use this platform to its potential.
I have been wondering what percentage of the smarty pants ppl bragging about how not-difficult lemmy is have simply failed to grasp it. It is inherently complex. It makes no sense because it was designed to accommodate significant dynamism. In the past few weeks, the partially-complete implementation has been pushed to the max. If you are satisfied with a small, narrow window onto that, you can pick it up pretty quick and keep it simple. But you are missing a lot too.
What do you think a lot of people are missing?
Nah, there just isn’t much content yet. I haven’t failed to grasp it, I’m subscribed to all of the relevant communities I’m interested in across multiple instances(ex: I’m subbed to like 5-6 of the most popular c/gaming). There just isn’t much in them yet.