On the Lemmy specific front, Active daily users seems to still be stabilising following the exodus from elsewhere, Comments and Posts both seem to be on the rise though – promising stats all in all.

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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 60 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I had been using Masotodon as my main social media before, but gladly find myself on Lemmy a whole lot more. Masotodon is certainly not my type of social media, the Twitter format and lack of algorithm kills it for me. Lemmy fills that Reddit gap, and Sync makes it feel like I'm on Reddit again. Though the website has a long ways to go. Lemmy still has a lot of features to go and things to figure out to be a Reddit killer, but I feel confident we've hit a healthy size and are relatively stable right now.

Biggest thing I think that needs to get worked on though is to give smaller communities better visibility. You almost never see them because they get buried by the popular communties.

I'm not sure how Reddit did it, but they'd show smaller communities to show up on Hot feed pretty often to give them more exposure. We need a form of that.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Biggest thing I think that needs to get worked on though is to give smaller communities better visibility. You almost never see them because they get buried by the popular communties.

The devs are aware of this and, I believe, have a feature coming to help with that. In their recent AMA they acknowledged that it's bothering them too.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Glad to know that they know!

[–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I'm with you. I recently jumped on mastodon and can't get into the Twitter style. I follow a few things of interest but it's like comparing cable TV programming with Netflix, I don't want to be told what to watch but I need a nudge and structure to wade around in (if that makes sense).

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lack of algorithm? Sign me up!!!!

[–] StoicLime@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Its not as good as it sounds. There should be some kind of sorting. I follow #food but I get low-quality content of any random user taking a picture of their refrigerator at the top of my feed just because they posted 1s ago.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, I see. I've never used those platforms, but I always thought that I could just see a newsfeed with posts of people I follow.

[–] static_motion@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can, but the feeds that are supposed to help you find people to follow in the first place are important, and Mastodon's are awful.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But why should do you need some algorithm to find some people to follow? Unless you talk about a search algorithm?

[–] static_motion@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, I'm talking about the hypothetical algorithm that fills a page with things you might be interested in. Twitter has it (even though it's not necessarily good), even Reddit these days has some of that, it's a feature in most social media websites and sometimes quite a useful one, and Mastodon just lacks it altogether.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I know how those algorithms work. And they suck because they quickly spoon-feed you bullshit if you're not careful enough.

[–] StoicLime@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Bluesky does it the best. It supports community made custom algorithms, so I use a Discover feed to find people I like.

[–] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Do you follow many people? I used to have that issue when I first signed up and was just looking at my entire fedirated feed. Since paring it down to local or follows only, it's a lot nicer while retaining some of that cozy vibe that I like.

[–] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

It is as good as it sounds. You just have to put a bit of effort in yourself to follow your interests before it gets really interesting.

[–] Kelteseth@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One thing you can do is to subscribe to tags (does not work in the Android app) when searching for them. Then you will get more than just the posts you subscribed to. This is somewhat ok, but I also would like a feed for things I could be interested in...

[–] notabird@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chronological timeline doesn't really work unless you build a highly curated list. Not many people used Twitter that way.

[–] Rambler@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I'm guessing that would be tagging people then rather than topics of interest? Probably not missing much if that's the case.

[–] Rambler@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I wasn't even aware lemmy had tags. Never used it on pc.