Same posts each time I open my app, always the same boring topics about bugs and how people feel, this is getting old fast. Not that I am going back to reddit, but don’t think I will stay on lemmy either.
Sort by new. This isn’t reddit.
It does seem that both hot and active are moving pretty slowly. I’ve found that “new” is actually the way to see a constant stream of new content, so maybe giving that a try will help.
I second this, when I selected New, I started to see more interesting content.
Same
Be the change you want to see in the world
Your first post is a complaint about things being boring.
Maybe try engaging a bit.
are you contributing? This place is only as interesting as you make it
This a thousand times. I mainly lurked on Reddit and I’m trying to actually contribute here. Sometimes I fear that no one will care what I have to say, but someone needs to start the conversation.
Yeah, I’m the same, used to just lurk on Reddit. But with Lemmy trying to engage with the communities a bit more. Its actually quite nice, a small sense of camaraderie as people try to encourage everyone else to contribute.
That and since Lemmy is open source and federated, I feel more comfortable here than Reddit
Contributing does little to help the issue at the moment, as the hot and active sort has crashed and stopped updating since a couple of days ago.
Until that’s fixed, most users will be presented with the same posts every time they visit lemmy.world
Lemmy is boring for now maybe. With new users and more content coming things will be much better. Just think that you are one of the pioneers and contribute.
I sort by new and subscribed. And my subscriptions span the fediverse. Plenty of new interesting content.
How do you feel about posts about how people feel?
Sort by hot (or new if hot doesn’t work) instead of active.
Hot and Active are currently broken, making the sites seem far less active than they actually are. Sorting by new is much more interesting. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076
Do keep in mind both lemmy and kbin are in the alpha stages and both were relatively slow/calm before the whole reddit thing happened so the devs were caught by surprise.
Try out one of the kbin instances and see what you think. It has lemmy + kbin + mastodon integration. Some of the kbin instances are listed on here: https://kbin.pub/en
I just opened user registration on my kbin instance yesterday so it hasn’t been added to the list yet, but feel free to try any of them!
Sort by new comments and other similar options. And just post stuff wherever. The reason why 195/196/197 get so big consistently is because posting works.
Imho it’s boring because “active” is the default and works differently from reddit. It shows you active posts, as in posts that have a lot of new comments. This leads to some posts being on the front page for days.
The filter “hot” is supposed to be like reddit, but is currently broken on a lot of instances.
For the best experience I strongly recommend kbin.social since they have a working “hot” as their default giving you the most reddit-like experience out of all the instances I’ve tried.
Post more content here and help make it less boring. More content will attract more users, which will result in more content. We need to grow the community.
Try sorting by Top-Day
