I mean having 1 less thing to doomscroll on is good innit
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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Its hard for readers early on. You need lots of people to fill the feed. Get busy or wait for people to get things addressed and pipelines running.
Its mainly UX, it will come in time.
important to note, none of this made itself (even reddit); it took people using and contributing.
Yes, you' re right, I've been a Redditor for more than 16 years and have seen many subreddits come and go. Even today, there are subreddits like Android that only get 200 or 300 upvotes on a good day.
+1, as many have said, participation is key. Make communities, posts, and comments.
It's not going to replace Reddit overnight. Those communities have to be built here. If people stick around, it will happen.
Oh my, that has just been there the whole time and I repeatedly glossed over it!
I know the feeling, but the way I'm dealing with it is twofold.
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Create content. If the commuity you like has few posts, then start something. If the community doesn't exist, create it. I'm doing my part by creating maliciouscompliance (quick shoutout: /c/maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world , https://lemmy.world/c/maliciouscompliance , !maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world ).
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Recognise that I used to spend too much time on Reddit and I should spend less time on social media in general. "Not as doomscrolly" is a feature for me, although I recognise this isn't for everyone.
I think it's just going to take some getting used to. I've been riding the struggle bus for the last couple of days but it's getting better. I'm just excited to be somewhere new for a change. The echo chambers were getting pretty bad.
Mlem (iOS app) isn't great but I'm sure it will get better. The official reddit app is atrocious.
I was on reddit for over 12 years. I mostly lurked because my comments were never seen by the time I saw a thread. That's not super important tot me but I'd like to have more of a voice. Sure, things are easy now, but back in the day it was a pain in the ass in some regards. I'm still shocked the search sucks so bad over there. Give it some time to grow and see what happens.
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What I'd recommend in your case is sorting the posts by "hot" instead of "active" which is the default setting. Posts get up the active sorting whenever somebody comments on them or upvotes (I think?), even if they are very old, whereas hot should only show you new and currently popular posts. You'll still see the post that you've already seen and a setting for that is clearly missing, but it should still be an improvement.
Yeah, I think having active as the default sorting is not a good idea. It can be confusing to new users
Agreed. I like the progress they’ve made so far, but it’s clear in alpha stage. And I find the mobile website to be pretty good for what it is. A few minor updates will make a big difference.
There are definitely a few bugs or perhaps performance issues that are annoying, but the experience seems already 1000 times better than just 2 days ago. I have also checked on lemmy every few months for about 2 years now, it's day and night. It already feels kinda like 2012 reddit to me, and that's a good thing in my view.
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people need to remember that apps like apollo were around for years. iterating and improving to produce an incredible product.
it wasn’t always like that. you’re at the cutting edge. like reddit was 10 years ago.
This stuff takes time
I mean the user base is less than 1% of reddits. So of course you're going to have less posts. You're relying on people for browsing, you either can chose to be content with how much people are posting, or get to posting yourself.
I just sort by hot, check twice a day, make a thread if I want an inbox and it's fine