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.
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.
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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.