I feel like most posts on Lemmy are irrelevant to me, and they don’t refresh much, is this how Lemmy is like or is this just because I’m a new user?
Lemmy didn’t have really The Algorithm to feed your media consumption. You need to build your own diet by subscribing to communities of your choice. You can use this search engine to find ones that interest you. https://lemmyverse.net/
I am subscribed to a good bunch of communities I’m interested in, but even then I don’t feel like the posts are that relevant or interesting
What do you actually mean?
I don’t want to be mean but you have to actually use words to be a bit more descriptive than that and maybe think about it some more.
If the posts are irrelevant - subscribe to different communities? How do you normally decide on these things, like e.g. how do you find YouTube channels to subscribe to and how do you decide which of these to watch? Are you applying the same logic here? If not, why not? If yes, then what’s the aspect of the usual/expected outcome that is missing?
There is no “algorithm” on Lemmy. One of the reasons why I like it. No tracking in the typical sense. Simply subscribe to communities which you want to see, then browse “Subscribed”. Alternatively, some people like to browse “All” and block any content they do not wish to see. Me personally, a mixture of both. Every now and then I scroll “All” to find new communities to subscribe to. Hope this helps :D.
From I gathered so far, lemmy is still pretty small, so unless you browse all local communities or all the instances it feels pretty limited.
I’m sure it will grow eventually.
A few ways I’ve found communities that interest me:
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Community promotion communities such as https://lemmy.ca/c/communitypromo provide pointers to topics of interest.
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A good Lemmy client goes a long way toward facilitating content discovery; I’m a Voyager user, and it supports sorting Home (subscribed) and All (unsubscribed) post feeds in various ways including New, Active, Scaled, Controversial, etc.
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When I was new to Lemmy, I used Voyager’s subreddit migration tool to match communities with my interests (see https://vger.app/settings/reddit-migrate ) – I believe Artic and a number of other clients have similar functionality.
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Just browsing the All feed has helped me find communities (and compile a list of things to block!)
Thanks for fixing my Lemmy notation!
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Being honest, a lot of it probably is because Lemmy is so small. I’ve subscribed to basically every even vaguely relevant community to me, and I still only get about a half-dozen posts a day in my subscribed feed.
Also while there’s a modest amount of people here (I’d reserve small for under a thousand online, personally), many of them seem to have a rather narrow set of interests they like to engage with. Namely technology (self-hosting & Linux in particular), news (primarily to do with politics), and memes (a mix of things but largely politically-tinged, old memes, nostalgia-tinged).
Outside of these interests the next most active may be cute animals, comics, and video games with some gradually rising gardening, stitching, woodworking, art, and certainly other interest communities I’m forgetting or haven’t noticed.
Also while there’s a modest amount of people here (I’d reserve small for under a thousand online, personally)
Honestly, I’d be curious how many active users we actually have. I wouldn’t be suprised if it was fewer than 1000 who contibute (including just voting) when excluding the authoritarian instances and spam.
Do any instances publish these stats?
52000 monthly active users (so vote, post or comment): https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats