I left Lemmy to come here to join the fed not too long ago. I went through the setup and joined a bunch of communities. The most active one I spend reading is Selfhosted. Besides that I’m on my home page using the default “hot” and “subscribe” sorts enabled and I see the same thing all day every other day. I see people say it’s not that active and I know this isn’t Reddit with its volume but it can’t be that inactive here. I’ve tried “hot/new” and “all” just it seems to be a bunch of RSS feeds with no human context or interaction. With I’m doing something wrong or the communities I’ve joined aren’t active enough or both.
Try joining more communities.
Have a browse of https://feddit.online/feeds and click ‘Subscribe’ on any subject that looks interesting.
Also explore https://feddit.online/topics
This was super helpful, thank you. I didn’t know existed. I still forget what an instance is and I think I need to stop treating this like Reddit.
I second the advice to join more communities. I’ve been subscribing to more and more things over the years and my feed always has new content
I recommend these guide pages. The first two are for how this place differs from Reddit, and the third one is for how to easily find more communities to join
There’s a lot of differences to get used to, for sure.
:)
Think of an instance as its own separate lemmy: separate users, separate communities, separate rules. Except on Lemmy (or Piefed or Mastadon or any other ActivityPub-federated service), they all talk to each other. It’s like taking a bunch of forums and mashing them up into one big giant one.
It’s kinda like email, except the posts are public.