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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I left Reddit during the API fiasco. Tried Lemmy, ran into problem after problem. Went back to Reddit for 3 months, and go deep into the enshittification process. Signed up here today. Hoping I can settle in here!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well first off, welcome back!

What kind of content or communities (that's what we call subreddits,) are you looking for?

If you're looking for communities, I would suggest starting with this nifty website It has a visual database of... (checks notes) 28,178 communities (!?!) and 563 instances to choose from.

If you're looking for content, there's nothing wrong with searching all and new. Check out [email protected] for help finding newer communities. And here is a long list of communities that aren't political, full of memes or tech.

And if you have any questions about Lemmy, head over to [email protected] for assistance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wow, thanks for the suggestions! 🙏 I'm interested in nature, music, conlangs, poetry, songwriting... those are probably the main ones.

Last time a big problem was my feed would literally not change for long periods... then it would update very slowly. I was wary of signing up to instances just to make my feed flow, because that would mean my feed would be full of things I'm not interested in. But I guess I just didn't find the instances I was looking for.

Will search again now!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Be default the sorting of your front page is likely set to "Active", try different sorting options to see if that changes things.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I manually set it to New, but your point still stands. I'll try some other settings too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I would suggest setting your account to filter by "new" content. "Scale" is also useful. IIRC: It filters like "new" but uses an algorithm to show content from more of the subbed communities, instead of only showing content most recently posted, from your subs.

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