• ubermeisters@lemmy.world
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    Yeah my local is just as trash as the all though?

    I’m just about ready to give up. I knew Lemmy wasn’t going to be Reddit, but to be honest it feels like everybody here is trying to make something work that isn’t, and it’s exhausting blocking all these stupid fucking communities made for extremely specific weird shit.

    Oh and if you haven’t noticed, there’s only a handful of people who are responsible for most of the news and politics posting, they always post certain takes in issues as well. seems pretty suspicious to me and while I know you guys all think we escaped “big media” and the gross amount of state sponsored misinformation on reddit, but I’m pretty sure they’re here already and they are practically running the information communities.

    • TomJoad@lemmy.tf
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      The ultimate method is:

      Cultivate your own ‘Subscribed’ feed.

      Then almost every post is good.

      You choose your own level of involvement.

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        Just because I’m interested in the category doesn’t mean every post will be good. Classification doesn’t guarantee quality.

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      Yeah my local is just as trash as the all though?

      I honestly mostly stick to subscribed.

      Once a day I check all with “Top of the day”

      For emerging communities I use !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl (which just moved today to !trendingcommunities@endlesstalk.org

      I’m just about ready to give up.

      Don’t force yourself if you don’t feel like it. Lemmy still have a lot of rough edges, hopefully it will get better over time, but at the moment it takes some commitment to use it as a Reddit replacement

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      Have you tried kbin? Same content in that it’s Lemmy compatible, but slightly different sorting algorithm which (in my view) seems to result in a more rounded/balanced set of posts being promoted.
      Yes there a different set of issues - it’s earlier in it’s development phase, but developing fast (collapsibling comments is being worked on, API (and therefore 3rd party apps) is imminent, many other improvements are developed and expecting to go live this month…

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          Circa 60,000 active users, but whatever…

          You are rather missing my point. Because it sorts on boosts rather than upvotes it surfaces different things in the federated ‘all’ feed.

          Edit: As corrected below it’s about 10k monthly active users, but that’s still circa 10% of the whole threadiverse (kbin + Lemmy) and only Lemmy.world is larger than kbin.social

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          It’s federated, so the local user count is completely irrelevant.

          Especially when OP even specifically said that you would see the SAME content, just with different sorting.