follow communities that post about other topics then?
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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It's because people like you keep bringing it up and upvoting it.
While I agree, I can understand why it's so Reddit-oriented. Mostly everyone who came here came from Reddit so news/ drama/ discourse about Reddit is relevant for the vast majority of people. The other reason is a lot of people just joined, so this whole topic isn't as tired out for them.
I think too a lot of us are still in shock that a major communication platform we've used for over a decade is just up and gone in 30 days. I'm on the Connect for Lemmy app now and because it's all been developed so fast it's almost hard to remember I'm not still on reddit. And this is coming from someone running their own instance!
It will blow over. It's just that the whole Reddit debacle is the most relevant thing right now. Check back in a few months.
I agree that the all section with default active sorting feels a little to Reddit/Twitter. Things get already much better with sorting by hot or top.
One thing I wonder is, if people actually know how to use Lemmy subscriptions. Reddit used a algorithm to customize your frontpage and Lemmy doesn't have that. There is one single video on lemmy.world/c/videos with over 1k upvotes while the rest has only between 15 - 30. The difference? That one video ended up in the all section and enough people commented in it.
My local instance feed is pretty good and has almost no Reddit or Twitter stuff in it. Same goes for my subscription feed.
I personally don’t. I like the occasional updates about reddit.
To be honest, no lol. I think up to this point, yeah that's been the case but with Reddit's API change coming in to effect and Twitter's issues the Fediverse has blown up and even my non-techie friends are starting to talk about it in real life. As a result of those changes we're seeing all sorts of discussion occur. But people, all of us, are still learning how this works and so far the thing that unites the most discussion IS the exodus so that's probably going to be top of mind for users initially.
Nope. I only look at places I've subscribed to, and I've gone out of my way to track down places that relate to my interests across multiple instances. It's not the most lively, but very little of it focuses on reddit.
Though you're right, the stuff with twitter, and also youtube, have been major news topics. It's to be expected from major internet resources shooting themselves in the foot.
I've done the same, going through fediverse observer and subscribing to all sorts of communities on niche instances and even deploying my own. At this point my main front page feed is very close to what reddit was, but what I don't quite have yet (due to lacking both feature and content) to recreate my interest specific multireddits.
How was the experience of hosting your own instance for the sake of personal convenience? It's something I've been considering along side a few other things that might be worth the effort.
As a Linux and travel enthusiast I think it's fun. Mayne a big ambitious to position my instance as the go-to place for local communities, but I'll give it a few months and see how it goes.
I recommend paperspace over AWS, Azure or Google Cloud just because it's easier to setup and the pricing is more straightforward. I just went with the entry level Linux server, it works fine but I can upgrade later. You can install xfce and connect to VNC over SSH if you want, but I find I do 99% of the server work through SSH on PowerShell.
I've had one downtime issue so far this week but I honestly think it was due to so many other instance also having downtime and the federation workers stalled. I installed netdata so I can easily monitor CPU and RAM usage, which to no surprise, workers be working. I'm also running scripts to post from RSS feeds until things get going on their own.
I run mine over at Linode for the last couple weeks without any downtime. Can't recommend it enough. And it doesn't use a lot of resources so you can host multiple things on one server.
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