What do you *do* online these days? Where do you spend the most time?
reddit is shit and makes me annoyed, twitter is shit and makes me annoyed, tiktok is shit and makes me annoyed, pure news sites are boring, cracked is dead, google doesn't work anymore, lemmy is only memes and news and fairly slow
i feel like i used to be able to sink into an activity on this machine, but now i just spend 5 minutes somewhere, the algorithm runs out of content, i get annoyed and go somewhere else, same process happens. i feel like i have amnesia, i used to enjoy this but i have no idea how.
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While this is good advice in theory the unfortunate truth is if you block all the memes and news you're going to get like 1 new post a day. Lemmy is mostly memes and politics and Linux right now. We just don't have the population density such that the 28 English-speaking turtle breeders in the world can find each other in a community (or whatever else your hobby is). We're already struggling to fill content for relatively popular video games, for example, I've been subbed to the Deep Rock Galactic communities since day one but I've only ever seen like, two posts in those communities, ever, and both of them were within the past week. (I am well aware of the irony of myself, who has never posted content a day in his life, complaining about a lack of content - I'm more of a comments kind of guy, always have been. I won't go against my nature to post trash memes to communities that I want to see flourish. But I will vote up your trash memes if you want to post some.)
Point being, long story short, et al, etc. - Lemmy needs more users interested in posting more things than just memes and politics and Linux if we want to have an environment containing more than memes and politics and Linux. The future starts with YOU - and if not you then the next guy down the line, and so on until we run out of people with anything to say.
Anyway, I am quite stoned and must be on my way; my people need me. Adiós, amigo, until next time.
Huh, I hardly disagree, I barely follow news communities, no meme communities at all and still get a fairly fresh feed daily.
I follow 893, communities though.
@kratoz29 @skulblaka I hate to be that guy but your double negative threw me for a loop.
I think "I hardly agree" fits better here?
I think "strongly disagree" is a better way to express it 😅
There are definitely growing pains here, it's the same problem Reddit has with people posting the same thing in multiple different communities, I don't want to block them, because they're communities that I'm interested in, it's just the same repeated stuff, which gets annoying.
I blocked the main politics subs because it was nothing but Trump posts (I'm American, so it's been like 8 years of hearing about this asshole on a nearly daily basis). The new annoyance is the constant posts in multiple communities about the Israel/Palestine conflict. I get that it's a hot issue, and a lot of people care about it, but I really don't and I'd rather not see stuff about it every freaking day.
It would be great if there was some sort of keyword filter for the c/All or even your subbed communities where you can filter out keywords so it's not an endless stream of the same shit. Another example is posts about the Yuzu Nintendo Switch emulator getting the ax, it's like "I know this happened, I don't need to see posts about it in 5 different communities".
I have blocked most meme comms and all US news/politics comms (I'm not in the US so not so relevant to me) and I definitely still see a good amount of posts. So I don't agree with this.
Like the others, I disagree. I've block hundreds of communities and my feed is good.
It's just an arduous process of blocking tens of communities a day. Some of the stuff you just generally don't want to see, I created a porn account and went on the LemmyNSFW server and I could have definitely used some eye bleach after that: Chicks with dicks, hardcore BDSM, furry porn, hentai, tentacle porn, tons of dicks (I'm a straight guy), etc..
I had to stop after about 10 minutes and just went back to my Reddit porn account.
I didn't find it so bad. I knew it would taper off. I didn't see it as a chore. And it was worth it.
So they end up learning about Linux :D. j/k.
I would also take a look at new instead of hot within the filter. You end up seeing a lot of cool stuff people are posting.
Unfortunately/Fortunately that's the audience that lemmy appeals most to. Personally, that's (more or less) what I want from a community