I realize it won’t be like this forever, but while scrolling Lemmy I eventually come to a point when I start to see a lot of old posts and it’s a perfect signal that I’ve done more than enough scrolling for the day
It’s true for more popular sub forums but it sucks for hobbies and more niche topics.
Guess that’s enough internet for me today
The current scale of Lemmy is appealing. It doesn’t have the same breadth but I happily trade the toxic elements of Reddit, etc, for a little breadth.
I never though of it like this. But I like thinking of it this way. I am excited to watch lemmy grow though. I have faith that it will go and become a lot more popular. At that time, it will be nice to have more niche communities that are active.
Same! Lemmy is one of my favourite places on the internet and it’s comfy to me. I’m also excited to watch it grow and become more popular! 😃
Using a combination of top day, mark read on scroll, and hide read, I regularly reach the end of the internet, and am glad.
How do you do this? My main problem with Lemmy is that I always see the same posts
Jerboa
I’m using the Boost for Lemmy app on Android. My memory is that the Sync for Lemmy app also has the “mark read on scroll past” feature. I thought I read a discussion that implied that some web Uis for Lemmy also had this, but that’s not what I use and not what I know.
What client are you using to read Lemmy?
Jerboa
I’m confused, is it not on everyone’s settings for their default Lemmy profile?
“Show Read Posts” is a checkmark you can unclick if you want to hide them…
Correct. But the additional feature is available on some clients. The additional feature is to mark posts as read when you merely scroll past them. That way I don’t have to keep scrolling past the same post every time I check Lemmy. I mean, I still scroll past the same link multiple times when different people have posted it to different instances, but I never see the exact same post twice.
Oh interesting, only use desktop so I’m not on mobile so probably missing out on some cool features being developed by others.
Do you feel the apps do a better job of representing a post on the main scroll feed nowadays? I always felt like it lacked context when you were just reading a small excerpt, but I can see something like that easily approved upon and updated.
I do feel the same as the OP poster though, I honestly can’t even get past the first page if I actually click and read the comments and look into the information being presented. One post can completely sidetrack me for a day if people start making claims that are untrue and it’s a whole rabbit hole to get to the bottom of it.
In Boost, I’m happy with Card View that shows pretty big thumbnail and a healthy extract.
Holy shit, at first I thought they were pokemon cards of billionaires like Bezos, Musk etc.
BRB coffee time.
yeah that’s way better, thank you for the edit/image upload (glad I don’t click marked read as often as I should lol). That’s definitely a healthy extract lol. I’ll make sure to suggest boost in the future if someone’s looking for a mobile version.
Asking into the void is there a way to do this on Voyager? Swapped from sync cause (far as I could tell) there’s still no mod features and the amount of “glide couldn’t grab this image” was frustrating, but haven’t found a way yet to hide posts you’ve seen. Like I know some links are going to be reposted multiple times, but much as I love tenforward I’ve been scrolling past the same gowron eyes memes the last few days on my feed (they’re great memes, but I can only see them so many times lol).
Apparently yes: https://old.lemmy.ca/post/1605561
Thank you! I’m apparently just blind AF lol. Really appreciate though swapped two days ago and still finding my sea legs :')
YOOOOOO that’s friggin AWESOME
Great idea!!!
Yeah, I just sort by new. I see everything posted in my subscriptions, and can just be done for a while. It’s great. And early comments get more upvotes, heh.
I mute a ton of communities, and I really like quickly getting to the “end” of All. Then I’ve blocked some other dopamine sites, so I get bored and go play outside 🤣
Wait, the “All” feed has an end? I need to step up my game
Yeah, All Top [time duration] just pulls the most highly voted of the selected time length. The shorter the time period the easier it is to run out.
You can also really feel that the algorithm doesn’t just blindly promote click/rage bait the way that reddit’s does.
It still gets promoted some times, but the front page isn’t constantly filled with it like Reddit’s is,.
Just be aware that there are many haters here too. A few days ago I posted a positive message about the EU and… oh my God… what a wave of negativity and hate I get. It was just like we - in the EU - are now living under the authoritarian regime of the EU. My reaction was… I’m out of here, so I’m not in that community anymore. I hoped that Lemmy was a more “positive” community, but that seems to be a naive world view. There will always be haters and they are everywhere.
The word youre looking for is „russian-american trolls”
The EU is neither a Regime, noir Authoritative. It is our current best way to never repeat the stuff that happened during the cold war in the USA by requiring everything to be open and accessible to the public. The EU is literally what you shape it to be. If you have a problem with what kind of laws the EU is passing, you have a problem with the people voting, not with the system itself.
There is a lot of unelected entities persuading governments. Germany for instance was going green with solar and wind as their central bank shut down pro carbon funding, yet they imported Russian energy as a backstop as they shut down their nuclear reactors.
That kind of unelected Davos influence can cause permanent harm to a country, as their energy prices are 3 times higher than the US now as they burn lignite, leading to deindustrialization as they try to compete with China in EV. They also want to censor climate misinformation, as they attempt to put in censorship laws.
https://climate.ec.europa.eu/eu-action/climate-disinformation_en
They are also rushing in the CBDC for October, when they created laws telling corporations to track their emissions its pretty clear where that’s headed as far as carbon quotas.
Yes, but these are unwanted laws passed by EU. These laws are not integrated into the EU itself. Yes, its a fucking joke that our democracy still does not have a good way of kicking out all the unwanted Nazis, but it dosent mean that the system needs to be destroyed (like the bots are saying). It just means that we need to expand the system more.
I would argue germany is going right because its pretty much 1938 again here. I mean, in the alternate world of the AfD these fuckheads are talking about how they would have won the election if the „Pedophile lobby” hadn’t brainwashed everyone with their Woke mind virus. Like, I might as well just take way too much of my meds again and see what I dream during my trip and these fuckheads would believe it as long as I say Heil Hitler at the end.
They also want to censor climate misinformation
Also yes, they are literally setting themselves up for a fascist takeover with those laws, but I would argue that’s the price you pay when you implement democracy and then try to fight fascism with authoritarism instead of offering quality education.
So since the 4th Reich is already coming, next time we should actually not just quit at killing the Nazis in 1961
I do agree with all of your comment. I am left wondering if this is just the end result of fiat currency debasement, leading to decades of debt accrual, and now higher interest rates due to aging global demographics; a phenomenon most central banks have publications on.
Which is something Ray Dalio talks a lot about, maybe this populism and divide is just a symptom of a larger problem. Germany does do unsustainable immigration to help deal with their aging demographics, which could easily lead to unequal asset price inflation and then nationalism/xenophobia.
Then obviously CBDC and an attempt to perform financial repression, since financializing housing to derive new money supply to grow aggregate demand won’t work any more.
Where did that happen? I couldn’t find the community from your comment history
I think they’re referring to the 8 down votes they got on the post where they told people they need to watch a YouTube video
I find that the EU has much better representation on Lemmy vs Reddit.
Yes but no but.
On a busy day when I only have a limited time to browse and I don’t want to get trapped in the infinite “just one more page bro” cycle? Yeah Lemmy is good for that. But if I need something to pass the time for more than an hour or so (transit layover, extremely delayed appointment, sick day at home, etc) Lemmy has neither the constant influx of new content nor the archive of old content to allow for hours of distracting rabbit holes to explore.
Feel free to post more content!
I’ve made nearly 300 posts, much of which was OC. I feel like I’ve done my part.
I appreciates that about you.
I don’t know if I’ve actually seen one of your posts, but thank you nonetheless.
Comment quality is also very well balanced…
That’s the beauty of having a platform where your engagement does not matter because there are no advertisers to woo.
On the one hand, this could dishearten moderators and admins if there are fewer engagements and traffic in the community.
I like that on Lemmy you can comment on a 20+ hour old thread from the “front page” and still have a good chance at responses or interaction from other users.
Any subreddit that regularly hits the front page of Reddit requires that users comment in the first hour or two of the post being made, or latch onto some chain from the top existing comments, or else your comment is basically just thrown into the void. It’s even worse now that Reddit has started showing day or week old posts on the front page, like why bother commenting on those posts when absolutely no one will see it…
They’re showing day or weed old posts on the front page? I wonder if they’re losing members that give content or is there another reason?
Yep, if you open any subreddit (not including the reddit.com front page), it sprinkles days old posts in with the default “Best” filter. It’s a mystifyingly annoying change because from a user perspective you have to re-read the same post multiple times each week, and there’s no point further commenting on those threads because no one else is still engaging with them.
It’s like the worst of all worlds combination of old forums and old Reddit, because old threads keep getting necro-ed, but users have no control over which ones are coming back or when they do.
you are on to something. after my last acc was shadowbanned for a comment from a mod removal, not even major policy. i started visiting the shadowban subs, thats the only place you can comment and people respond. i noticed almost everyone there has been shadowbanned for no apparent reason, soon after account creation, a simple comment that caught a filter?
it seems like they are culling the reddit population to a small managable group, so they can probably sell it off, also because Musk is responsible for some of the major purges this year, since he has complained to SPEZ on quite a few occasions.
it seems like they are culling the reddit population to a small managable group, so they can probably sell it off,
Is that a thing? Why would they want a smaller user group to sell it? We are talking about Spez, so who tf knows, but that seems really dumb.
I thought it would be because everyone who made content left, kind of like how X is.
they dont want to sell a loud left leaning userbase, the more neutral or right leaning the better
Maybe you’re right, they did seem to be heading that direction a few years ago when I left.
because lemmy is probably more engaged with the “threads more” on reddit its like quick fix, and most of its political, there are on to the next thing that trump has right now, or some thing republicans are doing, also i rarely revisit old political posts anyways, you can get into deep with arguments, and it sometimes doesnt end on reddit.
I’m just happy that I dont have to scroll through dozens of puns before I get to the first coherent post.
Le this narwhal bacon midnight that’s what she said doggo.
I love this too. I get bored after a while on Lemmy which…is a really good thing. Get some news and memes, and get off.
Them’s some good memes huh
