People always talk about wanting to grow Lemmy, but honestly I like it a lot more the way it is. You can comment on a post that’s been on All for 6 hours and still get plenty of thoughtful responses. On reddit, there was so much noise - especially on major threads - that commenting was like pissing into the wind.
Now make people restating it 800 times half the thread. Switched a few weeks ago, and honestly the fact I have yet to see the words heckin or wholesome, nor the annoying as fuck story style of banal metaphor they think is relatable and super clever, sounding like a chimichanga doused in tabasco making its emergency 3AM exit be known, has all sold me. Reddit seems to be a bunch of people who think they’re super unique and progressive as they salivate over Marvel movies and rehash the same 9 political talking points, 50 posts, and 4 philosophy quotes they don’t understand ad infinitum. It is reddit without redditors, and doesn’t feel like it is curated by the DNC’s PR department. What’s not to love?
I think lemmy’d be ideal if it was double our triple its current size. Maybe just large enough to convince r/askhistorians to jump ship.
The solution on that on Reddit has been, retreat into more niche communities, remove default subs from your feed. Right now the way to make Lemmy usable is to browse All, because otherwise there isn’t enough content, but I bet as it grows it will go the same way.
For Lemmy that’s what I used to do yeah, bc there was no better option.
PieFed offers numerous additional options though, most especially categories of communities, including user customizable and shareable Feeds. You can even have your cake and eat it too - like subscribe to no political communities to avoid them showing up in your Subscribed, but then it’s a click away in the News and Politics Topic area. Or, the keywords filter options (for e.g. “Trump”, “Musk”, or whatever you want) include All, None, and Some, allowing you to refine your Subscribed feed to meet your interest level in a particular subject.
And then for very low-volume communities, you can even set up Notification triggers upon every new post (I also use this for a community I mod using a Lemmy alt) - e.g. poetry tends to not be highly upvoted so super difficult to catch organically on either All or Subscribed (you might have more luck there sorting by New, but this requires blocking a TON of communities like for sports and individual locations and such).
PieFed really is an entirely different experience than Lemmy! Maybe as it becomes successful, the Lemmy devs may start to port the features over? But it’s doubtful, as existing requests have languished for like 5 years already - PieFed’s being written in Python rather than Rust really makes a difference in such matters.
So you can easily subscribe to everything but exclude certain topics, is that what you mean? I have a subscribed feed but there’s too many new communities I might want to see and too much work to subscribe to everything, so I do it the other way by blocking things instead and browsing all. The main thing I don’t like about PieFed on first glance is that the image thumbnails are quite large and only one or a few posts are shown on the screen at once if they are image posts, seems very mobile focused, is there a way to change that in the settings? I prefer to only open images after reading the title and deciding I want to look at it, then closing it again so there are more posts simultaneously on the screen.
It’s cool that it uses Python, I like using Python and dislike working in low level languages.
i can see the same thing, things that have been published for hours see steady activity, even some which are lively for a good few days, it feels less like flitting between a bunch of new things which is useful
People always talk about wanting to grow Lemmy, but honestly I like it a lot more the way it is. You can comment on a post that’s been on All for 6 hours and still get plenty of thoughtful responses. On reddit, there was so much noise - especially on major threads - that commenting was like pissing into the wind.
I also choose this guy’s comment!
Now make people restating it 800 times half the thread. Switched a few weeks ago, and honestly the fact I have yet to see the words heckin or wholesome, nor the annoying as fuck story style of banal metaphor they think is relatable and super clever, sounding like a chimichanga doused in tabasco making its emergency 3AM exit be known, has all sold me. Reddit seems to be a bunch of people who think they’re super unique and progressive as they salivate over Marvel movies and rehash the same 9 political talking points, 50 posts, and 4 philosophy quotes they don’t understand ad infinitum. It is reddit without redditors, and doesn’t feel like it is curated by the DNC’s PR department. What’s not to love?
I think lemmy’d be ideal if it was double our triple its current size. Maybe just large enough to convince r/askhistorians to jump ship.
The solution on that on Reddit has been, retreat into more niche communities, remove default subs from your feed. Right now the way to make Lemmy usable is to browse All, because otherwise there isn’t enough content, but I bet as it grows it will go the same way.
For Lemmy that’s what I used to do yeah, bc there was no better option.
PieFed offers numerous additional options though, most especially categories of communities, including user customizable and shareable Feeds. You can even have your cake and eat it too - like subscribe to no political communities to avoid them showing up in your Subscribed, but then it’s a click away in the News and Politics Topic area. Or, the keywords filter options (for e.g. “Trump”, “Musk”, or whatever you want) include All, None, and Some, allowing you to refine your Subscribed feed to meet your interest level in a particular subject.
And then for very low-volume communities, you can even set up Notification triggers upon every new post (I also use this for a community I mod using a Lemmy alt) - e.g. poetry tends to not be highly upvoted so super difficult to catch organically on either All or Subscribed (you might have more luck there sorting by New, but this requires blocking a TON of communities like for sports and individual locations and such).
PieFed really is an entirely different experience than Lemmy! Maybe as it becomes successful, the Lemmy devs may start to port the features over? But it’s doubtful, as existing requests have languished for like 5 years already - PieFed’s being written in Python rather than Rust really makes a difference in such matters.
So you can easily subscribe to everything but exclude certain topics, is that what you mean? I have a subscribed feed but there’s too many new communities I might want to see and too much work to subscribe to everything, so I do it the other way by blocking things instead and browsing all. The main thing I don’t like about PieFed on first glance is that the image thumbnails are quite large and only one or a few posts are shown on the screen at once if they are image posts, seems very mobile focused, is there a way to change that in the settings? I prefer to only open images after reading the title and deciding I want to look at it, then closing it again so there are more posts simultaneously on the screen.
It’s cool that it uses Python, I like using Python and dislike working in low level languages.
i can see the same thing, things that have been published for hours see steady activity, even some which are lively for a good few days, it feels less like flitting between a bunch of new things which is useful