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
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