Asklemmy

Fediverse is kinda just a fragmented mess. Communities of all sides, some moderated strictly, some not. Content not being properly labeled (looking at you NSFW communities), shitposts leaking into everything.

Then it's just a duality, communities are either open to everyone, and therefore spam, or they're super closed down, create an echo chamber and shut everyone off.

This whole situation isn't enjoyable and I'm not really sure for the future of it.

I used web version of lemmy.world on desktop (1080p monitor) yesterday, coming from old.reddit + RES, I really hate:

1. The web trend to leave white space on both side of websites, it's space inefficient and causes thread with longer title to take two lines to display.

2. Everything has a thumbnail slot even if it's just text thread, makes each thread took more height to display, also space inefficient.

3. You need to be authorized to even subscribe/join to a community (that is not on lemmy.world).

4. Image expand button is hard to spot for me, and I am pretty sure some threads with image didn't have expand button.

I had trouble with Mastodon, primarily because I had a very curated list of people I followed and most of them didn't move to Mastodon. Those that did are clearly using some type of program to just copy posts over from other platforms.

But for Lemmy, it feels different. I've been able to find most of the same communities I was a part of over there. The fact that they are smaller and less busy means I can spend less time scrolling, but still feel like I got my "fix" in for the day.

After a few days I was able to settle in and get the gist. It’s a pain subscribing to communities on other instances still, but once you have a solid list your feed will start to resemble the alien site.

I've been happy overall with it. I was lost at first but I set my feed to All severs and New posts. I have found some cool communities this way. I plan to stick around and I hope others do as well!

Oh my, that has just been there the whole time and I repeatedly glossed over it!

I know the feeling, but the way I'm dealing with it is twofold.

1. Create content. If the commuity you like has few posts, then start something. If the community doesn't exist, create it. I'm doing my part by creating maliciouscompliance (quick shoutout: /c/maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world , https://lemmy.world/c/maliciouscompliance , !maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world ).

2. Recognise that I used to spend too much time on Reddit and I should spend less time on social media in general. "Not as doomscrolly" is a feature for me, although I recognise this isn't for everyone.

Agreed. Its all a bit too confusing. I'm sort of understanding it all now after a few hours. I think great apps for android and iOS will definitely help a lot, but also I just really miss apollo :(

it's not as big right now, but if you're using Active sorting that could make it even worse, try using Hot, New, Top Day, or my personal favorite, New Comments, which is similar to new but anything that still has an active discussion will come up again

Most of that is just a function of smallness. I'm not sure there's a Reddit alternative that works for post doomscrolling yet.

I've spent many hours reading comments on here already, though.

Something that improved my experience was changing the sorting from most active to hot. I see much more variety now.

i setup my own instance ('bin, not Lemmy), and have subscribed it to so much content my doomscrolling is sitting at a comfortable, pre-reddit-death level. i am still scanning the 'verse for new instances to subscribe to.

they just added a feature in mbin that automatically groups crossposts, which is very nice.

i guess i prolly shouldnt have answered cuz im not using lemmy, technically...but

i would recommend:

• checking another instance, maybe you'll get better content ( mine is public!, https://moist.catsweat.com )
• subscribe your instance to more external content

I think the sorting algorithm on kbin is better, but it's much slower.