Appreciate the feedback, I definitely want it to “just work”.

DUMB. Just another reason for the average user to not bother with the platform IMHO. I can’t be arsed to figure out who is censoring or who isn’t I just want it to work.

Whaaaaaat. See this is the shit I’m talking about. Stupid I have to watch out for these kinds of pitfalls that I only know about because somebody happens to tell me.

Appreciate the leads here!

What do you mean “it can see more posts”? I thought the point of world was that it was the general everything respiratory.

The big difference is 1. Finding communities is not easy. Can you name every one of your interests off the top of your head? 2. Just punching in communities from reddit 1 for 1 doesn’t work. 3. Content and user base. There are no discussions for my favorite podcasts here and if there are where do I find them.

It took me a decade to build out a decent sub list on Reddit and I still stumble upon new interests now and again. I don’t know how to “stumble upon” decent communities on Lemmy and I’m sick of wading through cartoon horse cocks.

I’m an example of a filthy casual reddit user who is really struggling to find value in lemmy. Finding an instance where local is of value is difficult, world may as well be “everything”, and “everything” is a nightmarish hodgepodge of memes for teenagers, furry porn, really niche technical discussions, and star Trek memes. I never stay in the app longer than a few minutes and I feel like I spend more time blocking weird porn communities than I do reading interesting articles.

The other major issue is having to sort through the exact same article 60 times because people cross post not only to local communities but then also the same communities are duplicated on every instance. I’m probably going to abandon this soon unless I can find some kind of curated community list to subscribe to or something.

I would if lemmy was even close to an actual replacement.

Ok Chris

Every study that ever comes out shows that memory is REMARKABLY fallible.

No matter how convinced you are that you remember those conversations perfectly, I encourage you to explore the idea that… maybe you don’t.

Sure I just don’t know how to find communities, I was hoping browsing everything would reveal them to me but “everything top (6hrs)” is very limited in scope.

It took a decade to get a decent sub list for me on reddit. Trying to duplicate it on Lemmy doesn’t work because communities are either tiny, duplicates (or moderates poorly so they may as well be duplicates, ie “news” “politics” and “us news” are just the same thing spamming the same articles), or non existent. I’d like a good sub list but it’s a sort of 'where so I even start".

I’ve been using Sync and am planning on trying Lift off.

Anything that would consolidate the posts and threads would be a step in the right direction.

I usually browse “top (6 hour)” and if there is breaking news it’s the first several pages it’s awful.

The subscription feed is very difficult to populate though. Itt isn’t easy to try to find things you are interested in without browsing everything and hoping to stumble across it.

I mean, yea, there isn’t nearly as much interesting content. And with the way the “Everything” sort works you end up seeing the same thing 100 times across the 100 different similar subreddits each instance has. Honestly lemmy kind of sucks as a reddit replacement. Trying to find the next option.