How many communities are you subbed to?
I've been on Lemmy for 12 days apparently, feels like a lifetime! And I keep seeing posts about how it's too empty or there's no content outside of the Reddit drama or whatever.
So it got me thinking, am I just subbed to way more stuff than most? Because I go into the "all" tab maybe once a day, and keep busy in "subscribed" the rest of the time.
Here's my stats:
- 121 Lemmy communities
- 42 Kbin magazines
- 163 total
That's for this account, although I also have a second account for slightly different topics so there's probably another 20-30 or so unique subs on there.
How about you?
I'm subbing to anything that seems remotely interesting but I'll probably end up pruning the list eventually. The same thing happened when I joined reddit back in 2010. I was so excited to read about everything and then realized I didn't actually care that much about the individual topics.
I'm at 60 which already feels like too much
Yeah I'll no doubt do the same. A lot of them are duplicate communities for small topics that splintered off instead of joining forces, so I'm just keeping an eye on them all until one becomes the "winner".
I’m subscribed to 50 total communities / magazines across Lemmy and kbin and honestly, almost every time I hit refresh (while using subscribed and sort by new - I understand there are some front page bugs) I get new stuff to read or look at.
I haven’t felt like it’s dead here since I signed up and the engagement has just gotten better as people get more comfortable with whichever software they’re using (either Lemmy, kbin, or even Mastodon). It’s not an overwhelming amount of posts like trying to read Reddit by New.
And I look regularly for other communities I might be interested in.
Yeah same experience. A lot of mine are duplicates of really small niche communities who are all competing to get off the ground, figure I may as well subscribe to all of them and not miss anything until one emerges victorious!
The problem is I don't want to be buried in content. I just want an acceptable amount for the things I am interested in.
I'm subscribed to seven and none of them are very populated. I want a bit more to browse through, but I want it in those particular pockets. I'm pushing myself out of my comfort zone to be more active in the areas I'm interested in (and even have anything to say about).
I'm also not a fan of the big communities, joined a couple of them when I first got here and quickly unsubbed since they get spammy and you can usually see their stuff in All anyway. For the smaller, not populated enough ones, I've just been making a conscious effort to help seed some content and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't! 🤷♀️ Bear in mind as well some of those tiny communities might have duplicates so you could keep an eye on all of them without actually adding new topics to your feed.
Yeah, I've had to take the plunge and start one of my own! I've never modded like this before... which won't be a problem if people don't show up and contribute. Learning how to do more than lurk sure takes up spoons, but it will be worth it if I can succeed in making (and finding) some nice places to hang out in which aren't too overwhelming, but still have enough going on. :)
Best of luck! You might be talking to yourself for a little bit but remember there's another big wave of newbies due in at the end of the month :)
On one instance I have subbed to 136 communities. This was my first instance I joined and just looking for any communities that looked interesting.
I originally tried to duplicate that in the new instances I signed up on, but eventually gave up finding it to be too tedious.
At some point, on my main instance/account I started weeding out communities that were not as exciting or active as I was hoping for.
On some newer instances, I keep to a handful of subject matters based on the instance's primary community subjects (ex: startrek.website)
I have only played around with kbin a few times and have had a more difficult time initially setting it up and subscribing to magazines, but that's where I came across this thread.
I am eager to see app development for lemmy and kbin since I enjoy browsing casually from my phone. Half the time I am on Jerboa, the other half on the PWA for lemmy. Just started using the kbin PWA.
I like having multiple instances to view different content that may not be available due to defederation (beehaw) and I sometimes find new communities on one instance that don't populate from another (possible bug?)
As for my main interests, I am subbed to all instance versions of that community (news, gaming, etc) since they all have good but separate threads and interactions.
My hope is, that once a third-party app that is able to combine and standardize my viewing and search preferences, I will switch to that and only keep maybe 2 or 3 accounts to seperate professional vs personal interests, vs straight up casual and unorganized viewing.
Gotta say, we are massive outliers so far!
Hypothesis: Futurama fans subscribe to more communities, possibly due to an unshakeable sense of loneliness and despair brought on by Jurassic Bark? 🤔
I'm curious why you have multiple instance accounts that you switch between? You can view all of the fediverse from one account if you pick an instance that is federated with every community you want to see.
As most reddit refugees I didn't know how the fediverse worked and I jumped over here a week or so preemptively before a lot of the information on how the fediverse worked was widely established. I was frustrated because initially I couldn't add communities I was searching for and until people migrated over and made the community connections, the easiest way for me to see all the different communities out there was instance hopping. Now I know better and only really use one or two accounts because I am still having trouble viewing/posting things from certain ones. I chose to make a kbin account to see the variety in formatting and the different magazines available which are separate from Lemmy communities. Even yesterday, playing on kbin, I couldn't view all the communities that I know are out there in the Lemmy part of the fediverse. I do, however enjoy the kbin UI. Lastly, if one server instance goes down permanently, by having a second account on a different instance, I won't be completely lost or cut-off.
That's fair. A tip would be: use a smaller instance with the lemmy or kbin frameworks. It probably won't get defederated because it's small. Then you don't really have to worry about not being able to see certain content.
Wow. I'm subscribed to 13, and only one will be left of 5 of those once I figure out which is the best replacement for the defederated [email protected].
~160 communities would be too much for me. If something isn't my active interest, I prefer putting it into my locally hosted MediaWiki.
Too many interests most of which are quite small and niche is definitely a major problem in more than one area of my life lol, Lemmy is just the latest 😅
Around 20 but due to small amount of new content I am browsing all new
Solid strat for finding new stuff
That's what I'm doing at the moment.
I’m on 22 so far after 6 days. I used to be on lots of subreddits but pared it right back as too many of the comments sections were toxic.
So far not had that issue here so hopefully can stay subbed to a few more communities and enjoy the experience.
Definitely a fan of the smaller subreddits for this exact reason. Which is probably why I'm enjoying Lemmy so much! 😄
I'm at 41 on Lemmy.
Rookie numbers!
Trying to avoid memes. They are a time suck.
Very true. pointed look at the Risa community
56
Ok I'm starting to think the answer to the question "am I just subbed to way more stuff than most?" is yes, haha!
Not as many as I should be. Clicking links to mags/comms often opens them in a new window that I'm not logged into, then the login screen freezes.
Yeah it can be annoying following a remote link by accident and having to do the whole copy/paste rigmarole to subscribe.
I have a bookmarklet installed in my browser that I can hit to be redirected to the current community but from within my home instance. Can't remember who originally made it or I'd give them a shoutout. But anyway copy this to your bookmarks bar and it should help streamline things a lot.
javascript:(function() {const myInst="feddit.uk";let currUrl=window.location.toString().split("/");let currInst=currUrl[2];currUrl[2]=myInst;let newUrl=currUrl.join("/")+"@"+currInst;window.location=newUrl;})()You'll still get some 404s of course from communities that haven't been indexed on feddit.uk yet, so you'll need to fall back on the copy/paste method there. But still, that gets less common every day :)
Looks like I need to catch up. 5 days in and subbed to about 25 communities.
It's not a race! At least while I'm still winning, anyway...
17 subscriptions. They have had 7 posts in the last 12 hours... definitely pretty empty compared to reddit.
Gotta get those numbers up my friend :D
People need to make active communities I'm interested in, cause I'm not making them. Only a couple subs I'm missing from reddit though, more just want more activity in the existing ones. And I don't care to start threads...
You gotta post and engage dude, active communities don't just spring up out of thin air.
There might be fewer posts total but I've gotten tons more individual engagement on the verse than I ever did on reddit. The people here seem to actually want to talk about things. A lot of the reddit communities are so big that I never bothered posting in them at all because it was just lost to the noise.
Looks like I'm currently at 79. I have at least twice that blocked as I try to customize my experience as much as possible.
What is the benefit of blocking communities? Not sure I get it.
I browse all/active on kbin and it just keeps those from popping up when there are newer or popular threads. Like, I'm not interested in furry stuff so I blocked all those so that they don't populate on my feed no matter how I sort it.
Oh I understand. My home instance is a very small one (maybe 30 users) so I am really only concerned with what should subscribe to and not what I should block. It makes sense to need that if you have a big home instance that you can use the all/active feed with.
I might conveniently interject here and say that the "all" search (on Lemmy, at least) will show every community that a user of your home instance has viewed at least once. In other words, it will display content from every community in its cache. Since we're getting more users, the "all" sort is a pretty diverse array of content.
Do I win with 204?
Here you go bro, thank you for not making me feel like a tryhard.
🏆
You do, congratulations! But you might have to fight that other guy who already got a trophy emoji
Fifty-ish range I think? No more than several dozen.
What I found helped more than anything else was to switch to kbin. The sorting algorithm just seems to work WAY better over there. Lemmy was not scratching my reddit itch, but kbin is.
Yes, I am aware of the Lemmy bug with Hot sort. That's already fixed on lemm.ee. Still didn't work as well as kbin.
No competitiveness with Kbin here lol, I just picked the one that has the UI I prefer. Now that your federation issue is sorted it makes no odds at all! Glad there's the two different options so people can just pick whatever works :D
166 and my feed looks nice and busy :)
I accidentally added one just after writing this post, but you're still beating me by two.
Ding ding ding we have a new winner! 🏆
Thank you, I'll take my prize in the form of another Warhammer sub.
I'm subbed to 19 communities. It's not a lot, so there's not a lot going on in my Subscribed feed and I'm still using the All feed most of the time.
It'll come with time (or if you get really bored one day and go on a purposeful community hunt like I did lol)
What are kbin magazines. Different than communities? Where
I don't know if you've heard of Kbin in general but it's just another Fediverse platform like Lemmy, and has its own community equivalent called magazines. Users from Lemmy can sub to magazines, and users from Kbin can sub to our communities, so essentially it's all just one big forum with two different ways of viewing content. Some people prefer the Kbin UI, others prefer the Lemmy one.
For most of my interests I've found Lemmy is the more active one, but it just depends on topic. Check out their list of magazines here: https://kbin.social/magazines
To subscribe, you'll need to go through the palaver of searching for the magazine on your home instance same as you do with communities. The difference is instead of
!this@syntax, just search for the full URL of the Kbin mag.I could have this wrong, but I think kbin magazines are the same thing as lemmy communities.
The question that I have is what's the lemmy equivalent of kbin microblogs?
So far as I'm aware, Lemmy doesn't have an equivalent to Kbin's microblogs, making it one of Kbin's distinctive features which I've seen some praising as it improves (or may improve?) federation with microblogging stuff like Mastodon/Pleroma/etc.
I haven't really seen that in action yet personally, but on the surface it makes sense at least.
I'm on 13 communities in this instance and a few more in Beehaw. I purged my Reddit account over a week ago and didn't keep track of all the subs. But I realized how much clutter I had. So, I'm going to be more selective now.
Also, I've heard kbin a few times. Should I be making an account over there?
Take a look at some of its instances, and if the interface is more appealing to you, pick one (Kbin.social's currently the most popular, but there's also readit.buzz & fedia.io, maybe others unlisted on the main site?) to join.
However, there's no need to unless its interface and functions appeal more to you, as it federates with Lemmy, so you can subscribe to any magazines/communities from there without a separate account.
About ten I think, I'm taking my time, making sure I really want to sub, trying not to clutter up my feed too much.
Your restraint is admirable!
(source: me uncontrollably Lemmying during the work day rn)
your post inspired me to go looking, so I browsed around 50 pages worth of mags and am now subbed to about 82
Sorry not sorry!
15 magazines.
Huh, I don‘t think I subscribed to anything.
I‘m mostly browsing Hot in kbin and it‘s provided me a seemingly endless stream of content which I just commented and voted on the whole day.
Just now I discovered the part where I could even subscribe wayyy at the bottom of the page where I had not ventured before on mobile.
Haha, well, whatever works for you! We're the exact opposite, I HATE not having my own curated feed. But it takes all sorts, as they say 😉
Usually I‘m a bit like that too, but more with filtering; I used to have about half of Reddit filtered out for example, which is why this is surprising.
Most likely my excitement taking over and I just went wild on the Hot, but now that I discovered the button I will subscribe to so many things.
I've created a monster 😱
Weirdly I'm subbed to 162, so almost exactly the same. Not sure of the kbin/lemmy breakdown.
Most of the communities are still really small or inactive but I'm subbed in the hope they develop in the next few weeks or so.
Glad to see some bigger numbers rolling in I was starting to think I was clinically insane.
Hah, I was thinking the same! If I hadn't seen your sub number I would probably have remained silent for fear of being weird.
I do really enjoy looking through the magazine list/recommended communities and finding new places, so that definitely contributes to the number.
Yep. Some of those speculative adds might take off one day and I want to be there to see it 😄
You and me both! I'm starting to think maybe I should post something to them in the meantime, hopefully I get some good ideas soon
If in doubt, honestly just some kind of vague "everyone introduce yourself by answering some basic question about your relationship with this topic" seems to have gone down well in most of the niche ones I'm in.
Brilliant idea, I'll have to try it!
One, it would be two but the second one has been pending for like 24 hours and I don't know what that means.
I mostly perfer to browse /all anyway and block what Im not into vs only seeing what I think Id like
Fair enough! For reference though I think the "pending" bug is just a visual thing and you're actually subscribed anyway. I have a few of those (mostly from .ml) but they show up in the subscribed feed just fine.
Hey you're right!!
Thanks for the tip, I am actually subscribed! I thought It was because of my very very limited internet lol
Happy to help! See, all this subscribing I've been doing has led to some useful things learned and therefore hasn't been a total waste of the last 12 days of my life 👀
92 'subs' so far.
Sub as a noun is fine. Sub can just mean subscription (to a community) or "at a lower level" so lower than an instance, thus community.