I’ve been on Lemmy for 12 days apparently, feels like a lifetime! And I keep seeing posts about how it’s too empty or there’s no content outside of the Reddit drama or whatever.
So it got me thinking, am I just subbed to way more stuff than most? Because I go into the “all” tab maybe once a day, and keep busy in “subscribed” the rest of the time.
Here’s my stats:
- 121 Lemmy communities
- 42 Kbin magazines
- 163 total
That’s for this account, although I also have a second account for slightly different topics so there’s probably another 20-30 or so unique subs on there.
How about you?
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I’m subbing to anything that seems remotely interesting but I’ll probably end up pruning the list eventually. The same thing happened when I joined reddit back in 2010. I was so excited to read about everything and then realized I didn’t actually care that much about the individual topics.
I’m at 60 which already feels like too much
Yeah I’ll no doubt do the same. A lot of them are duplicate communities for small topics that splintered off instead of joining forces, so I’m just keeping an eye on them all until one becomes the “winner”.
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The problem is I don’t want to be buried in content. I just want an acceptable amount for the things I am interested in.
I’m subscribed to seven and none of them are very populated. I want a bit more to browse through, but I want it in those particular pockets. I’m pushing myself out of my comfort zone to be more active in the areas I’m interested in (and even have anything to say about).
I’m also not a fan of the big communities, joined a couple of them when I first got here and quickly unsubbed since they get spammy and you can usually see their stuff in All anyway. For the smaller, not populated enough ones, I’ve just been making a conscious effort to help seed some content and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t! 🤷♀️ Bear in mind as well some of those tiny communities might have duplicates so you could keep an eye on all of them without actually adding new topics to your feed.
Yeah, I’ve had to take the plunge and start one of my own! I’ve never modded like this before… which won’t be a problem if people don’t show up and contribute. Learning how to do more than lurk sure takes up spoons, but it will be worth it if I can succeed in making (and finding) some nice places to hang out in which aren’t too overwhelming, but still have enough going on. :)
Best of luck! You might be talking to yourself for a little bit but remember there’s another big wave of newbies due in at the end of the month :)
I’m subscribed to 50 total communities / magazines across Lemmy and kbin and honestly, almost every time I hit refresh (while using subscribed and sort by new - I understand there are some front page bugs) I get new stuff to read or look at.
I haven’t felt like it’s dead here since I signed up and the engagement has just gotten better as people get more comfortable with whichever software they’re using (either Lemmy, kbin, or even Mastodon). It’s not an overwhelming amount of posts like trying to read Reddit by New.
And I look regularly for other communities I might be interested in.
Yeah same experience. A lot of mine are duplicates of really small niche communities who are all competing to get off the ground, figure I may as well subscribe to all of them and not miss anything until one emerges victorious!
Around 20 but due to small amount of new content I am browsing all new
Solid strat for finding new stuff
That’s what I’m doing at the moment.
Not as many as I should be. Clicking links to mags/comms often opens them in a new window that I’m not logged into, then the login screen freezes.
Yeah it can be annoying following a remote link by accident and having to do the whole copy/paste rigmarole to subscribe.
I have a bookmarklet installed in my browser that I can hit to be redirected to the current community but from within my home instance. Can’t remember who originally made it or I’d give them a shoutout. But anyway copy this to your bookmarks bar and it should help streamline things a lot.
javascript:(function() {const myInst="feddit.uk";let currUrl=window.location.toString().split("/");let currInst=currUrl[2];currUrl[2]=myInst;let newUrl=currUrl.join("/")+"@"+currInst;window.location=newUrl;})()You’ll still get some 404s of course from communities that haven’t been indexed on feddit.uk yet, so you’ll need to fall back on the copy/paste method there. But still, that gets less common every day :)
I’m on 13 communities in this instance and a few more in Beehaw. I purged my Reddit account over a week ago and didn’t keep track of all the subs. But I realized how much clutter I had. So, I’m going to be more selective now.
Also, I’ve heard kbin a few times. Should I be making an account over there?
17 subscriptions. They have had 7 posts in the last 12 hours… definitely pretty empty compared to reddit.
Gotta get those numbers up my friend :D
People need to make active communities I’m interested in, cause I’m not making them. Only a couple subs I’m missing from reddit though, more just want more activity in the existing ones. And I don’t care to start threads…
You gotta post and engage dude, active communities don’t just spring up out of thin air.
There might be fewer posts total but I’ve gotten tons more individual engagement on the verse than I ever did on reddit. The people here seem to actually want to talk about things. A lot of the reddit communities are so big that I never bothered posting in them at all because it was just lost to the noise.
your post inspired me to go looking, so I browsed around 50 pages worth of mags and am now subbed to about 82
Sorry not sorry!
56
Ok I’m starting to think the answer to the question “am I just subbed to way more stuff than most?” is yes, haha!
Weirdly I’m subbed to 162, so almost exactly the same. Not sure of the kbin/lemmy breakdown.
Most of the communities are still really small or inactive but I’m subbed in the hope they develop in the next few weeks or so.
Glad to see some bigger numbers rolling in I was starting to think I was clinically insane.
Hah, I was thinking the same! If I hadn’t seen your sub number I would probably have remained silent for fear of being weird.
I do really enjoy looking through the magazine list/recommended communities and finding new places, so that definitely contributes to the number.
Yep. Some of those speculative adds might take off one day and I want to be there to see it 😄
You and me both! I’m starting to think maybe I should post something to them in the meantime, hopefully I get some good ideas soon
If in doubt, honestly just some kind of vague “everyone introduce yourself by answering some basic question about your relationship with this topic” seems to have gone down well in most of the niche ones I’m in.
Brilliant idea, I’ll have to try it!
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166 and my feed looks nice and busy :)
I accidentally added one just after writing this post, but you’re still beating me by two.
Ding ding ding we have a new winner! 🏆
Thank you, I’ll take my prize in the form of another Warhammer sub.
I’m subbed to 19 communities. It’s not a lot, so there’s not a lot going on in my Subscribed feed and I’m still using the All feed most of the time.
It’ll come with time (or if you get really bored one day and go on a purposeful community hunt like I did lol)
One, it would be two but the second one has been pending for like 24 hours and I don’t know what that means.
I mostly perfer to browse /all anyway and block what Im not into vs only seeing what I think Id like
Fair enough! For reference though I think the “pending” bug is just a visual thing and you’re actually subscribed anyway. I have a few of those (mostly from .ml) but they show up in the subscribed feed just fine.
Hey you’re right!!
Thanks for the tip, I am actually subscribed! I thought It was because of my very very limited internet lol
Happy to help! See, all this subscribing I’ve been doing has led to some useful things learned and therefore hasn’t been a total waste of the last 12 days of my life 👀
Fifty-ish range I think? No more than several dozen.
What I found helped more than anything else was to switch to kbin. The sorting algorithm just seems to work WAY better over there. Lemmy was not scratching my reddit itch, but kbin is.
Yes, I am aware of the Lemmy bug with Hot sort. That’s already fixed on lemm.ee. Still didn’t work as well as kbin.
No competitiveness with Kbin here lol, I just picked the one that has the UI I prefer. Now that your federation issue is sorted it makes no odds at all! Glad there’s the two different options so people can just pick whatever works :D
