Is it? I almost never looked at /r/all on Reddit, and most of my subreddit discovery was by searching for keywords. /r/all had such a poor signal to noise ratio (I’m not interested in memes) that it was functionally useless for me, and I feel the same way about Lemmy and stack exchange.
The only time I do anything like “all” on Lemmy is when I see all posts on my instance (or for stack exchange, a given site). I like to think my instance generally has a better signal to noise ratio than the larger instances, so it has some limited utility for me.
I know other people use Lemmy differently, so it was a serious question. It fits my needs well, so maybe it would work well for others.
That’s fair enough. I was under the impression that the all feed for Lemmy wasn’t designed to behave like Reddits one, and that communities had equal discoverability regardless of topic or content.
I’m at this stage where I don’t really know if my favorite tech communities have moved over yet, and to your point, I should really set aside some time to put out the relevant keywords of the ones that still come to mind. I get a pleasant surprise when I see an old favourite show up in all.
And whilst I do have very specific interests concerning sites like reddit (primarily tech food, pets, training), I am open to finding new things to be interested in, if that makes sense. I feel like the all feed on both Reddit and Lemmy has been helpful with that in the past. This is how I stumbled upon projects like qmk, coreboot, microg, super random stuff like that.
As an aside, I’m extremely thankful that Lemmy let’s you block communities at the account level at all. I don’t believe Reddit accommodated this, and I had to rely heavily on a third party mobile app for an ‘optimal’ experience
The lemmy feed has gotten better, and I think it’s intended to mimic Reddit’s feed somewhat, but it still seems to include a ton of posts from popular communities that seem to drown out the less popular ones.
So if you’re looking for new communities, all will probably not be a very efficient way to do it since you’ll need to sift through a ton of content from more popular communities (and your new niche community won’t be popular at the start).
Also, and I could be wrong on this, I think it only shows posts from communities your instance tracks. So if nobody on your instance has looked for a given community, it won’t appear in all unless it happens to be hosted on your instance. I haven’t verified that, just that’s how I expect it to work given how other things on Lemmy work.
So the better solution seems to be to use a directory like this one and search for communities that way. That’s what I do, and it seems pretty effective. I browse through that periodically and find interesting communities that way.
And yeah, it’s cool that lemmy let’s you do it, I just personally don’t find a ton of value there, at least not as this point. Maybe it’ll be more useful once communities have stabilized a bit more and the feed itself has matured. But for now, it just seems like a ton of noise to me.
Is it? I almost never looked at /r/all on Reddit, and most of my subreddit discovery was by searching for keywords. /r/all had such a poor signal to noise ratio (I’m not interested in memes) that it was functionally useless for me, and I feel the same way about Lemmy and stack exchange.
The only time I do anything like “all” on Lemmy is when I see all posts on my instance (or for stack exchange, a given site). I like to think my instance generally has a better signal to noise ratio than the larger instances, so it has some limited utility for me.
I know other people use Lemmy differently, so it was a serious question. It fits my needs well, so maybe it would work well for others.
That’s fair enough. I was under the impression that the all feed for Lemmy wasn’t designed to behave like Reddits one, and that communities had equal discoverability regardless of topic or content.
I’m at this stage where I don’t really know if my favorite tech communities have moved over yet, and to your point, I should really set aside some time to put out the relevant keywords of the ones that still come to mind. I get a pleasant surprise when I see an old favourite show up in all.
And whilst I do have very specific interests concerning sites like reddit (primarily tech food, pets, training), I am open to finding new things to be interested in, if that makes sense. I feel like the all feed on both Reddit and Lemmy has been helpful with that in the past. This is how I stumbled upon projects like qmk, coreboot, microg, super random stuff like that.
As an aside, I’m extremely thankful that Lemmy let’s you block communities at the account level at all. I don’t believe Reddit accommodated this, and I had to rely heavily on a third party mobile app for an ‘optimal’ experience
The lemmy feed has gotten better, and I think it’s intended to mimic Reddit’s feed somewhat, but it still seems to include a ton of posts from popular communities that seem to drown out the less popular ones.
So if you’re looking for new communities, all will probably not be a very efficient way to do it since you’ll need to sift through a ton of content from more popular communities (and your new niche community won’t be popular at the start).
Also, and I could be wrong on this, I think it only shows posts from communities your instance tracks. So if nobody on your instance has looked for a given community, it won’t appear in all unless it happens to be hosted on your instance. I haven’t verified that, just that’s how I expect it to work given how other things on Lemmy work.
So the better solution seems to be to use a directory like this one and search for communities that way. That’s what I do, and it seems pretty effective. I browse through that periodically and find interesting communities that way.
And yeah, it’s cool that lemmy let’s you do it, I just personally don’t find a ton of value there, at least not as this point. Maybe it’ll be more useful once communities have stabilized a bit more and the feed itself has matured. But for now, it just seems like a ton of noise to me.