Well, bugs and UI aside, it seems like Lemmy can work but there’s not a lot of substantive discussion right now. The most upvoted stuff are memes and other low effort content. I’m not sure how long a bean meme can sustain serious activity.
The most upvoted stuff, yes, but if you would block those meme communities (or aren’t subscribed), you actually do get to the substantive discussion. The problem is the sorting algorithms right now, hot ranks recent 2 upvote posts much too high, while top ignores smaller, less upvote-heavy communities.
We either need something in between or hot to finally take community size into account.
That’s my issue right now. Half the posts on the communities page are about how awesome Lemmy/fediverse is (many of which have been there for days). The rest are either trashing Reddit and Twitter or memes and shitposts. I have to scroll quite a ways to find any actual content, and there’s much less interaction on those posts.
I’ve found multiple communities I’d be interested in, but it seems like many of them had some posts a week or two ago and nothing since.
It’s already getting tiring to have to scroll past the same “Isn’t Lemmy awesome!” posts.
That’s fair, but at the same time Reddit is full of the same, but also has 1000x more bots, shills, and karma-collectors. The actual human engagement is only a little bit higher than the fediverse imho.
Yeah but Reddit has 18 years of history and content behind it. So you will always find something worth reading. Here, I’m losing interest quickly. Memes are boring, I want to see some substantive discussion about something I don’t know anything about - something which Reddit and its userbase still excels at.
Well, bugs and UI aside, it seems like Lemmy can work but there’s not a lot of substantive discussion right now. The most upvoted stuff are memes and other low effort content. I’m not sure how long a bean meme can sustain serious activity.
The most upvoted stuff, yes, but if you would block those meme communities (or aren’t subscribed), you actually do get to the substantive discussion. The problem is the sorting algorithms right now,
hotranks recent 2 upvote posts much too high, whiletopignores smaller, less upvote-heavy communities.We either need something in between or
hotto finally take community size into account.That’s my issue right now. Half the posts on the communities page are about how awesome Lemmy/fediverse is (many of which have been there for days). The rest are either trashing Reddit and Twitter or memes and shitposts. I have to scroll quite a ways to find any actual content, and there’s much less interaction on those posts.
I’ve found multiple communities I’d be interested in, but it seems like many of them had some posts a week or two ago and nothing since.
It’s already getting tiring to have to scroll past the same “Isn’t Lemmy awesome!” posts.
That’s fair, but at the same time Reddit is full of the same, but also has 1000x more bots, shills, and karma-collectors. The actual human engagement is only a little bit higher than the fediverse imho.
Yeah but Reddit has 18 years of history and content behind it. So you will always find something worth reading. Here, I’m losing interest quickly. Memes are boring, I want to see some substantive discussion about something I don’t know anything about - something which Reddit and its userbase still excels at.