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
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
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?
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 :')
Jerboa
Connect on android has those features as well.
Jerboa
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,.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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 disagree, I’d like a greater variety of topics especially on general conversation communities.
Agreed, I like being able to refresh and see all new content. Does it always interest me? No, but at least I had variety. I’m hoping Lemmy will get there soon, but for now I’ll just vote and comment on lemmy and browse reddit without interacting in any way.
Feel free to create more posts!
I’m looking for what others have to say, I’m not that interesting.
Incan agree with that. I miss the active guitar subs from Reddit. I’m hoping we can revive a few here.
Yup, and then if you do endlessly scroll all you get to see either very wild takes, porn, and/or extremely niche start up communities, depending on your level of federation.
Shame it takes so long to get to the good stuff.
It’s true for more popular sub forums but it sucks for hobbies and more niche topics.
It’s like a better version of Reddit in 2025, but what I really want is Ye Olde Reddit of 2010. I keep seeing comments about how Reddit turned to shit with the API changes, but IMO it’s been garbage for more than a decade. I haven’t been on Lemmy for long but so far I’ve mostly seen the same posts as on Reddit with mostly the same types of comment, just at smaller scale.
When I joined Reddit around the same time, people who had been on Reddit since it actually started were also complaining it was shit. 🤣
Yeah it’s the classic problem… quality goes down as population goes up. Never mind whatever dumb shit the company does.
It even has a name! Eternal September
it definitely changed around’16, subreddits were getting banned because gop complained it was illegal, and all because 45, everyone/mods filters became toO SENSITIVE, so now your comments can be misconstrued as a disruption, when its really not.
