Is there a way to curate a front page?
I really want Lemmy to work but I’m having a difficult time tracking different communities across different instances. It feels like I’m doing something wrong. I typically just land on the lemmy.world front page and scroll through there, and I see some interesting stuff, but I’d like to learn how to curate it a bit more
Try this: go into your user settings, change Type from Local to Subscribed and Sort type from Active to Hot.
Then click on Communities on the top bar, switch the list from Local to All, and find communities you're interested in, you can also search for specific names.
Avoid names ending in @beehaw.org if you see them, they defederated us so we can't interact with them anymore.
When you find something you like, click on the community name to go to their page, on the right you'find the Subscribe button.
After you subscribed to enough communities, close lemmy and open it again, see if it's a bit better that way.
I had a feeling it was broken. Both acrive and new keep showing posts from 2-4 days ago. I'm still looking for an option to hide read posts but i found something that kind of works.
You can change your settings to not show read posts in your feed. Only problem is you gotta open the comments or upvote em. But it helps.
And right now New is definitely the way to go.
I would recommend to Lemmy to add something like top by hour as well, or something similar to the rising sorting with reddit. That might help things become less stale.
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