I feel like 75% of Mastodon are people talking about Linux. If you don’t care about Linux you feel alienated. I enjoy Mastodon and Lemmy, but the lack of more diverse subjects gets to me if I browse for too long.

Update: I took your advice and purchased a laptop for Linux, and now I care about it! Problem solved.

  • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
    14·
    10 months ago

    For Lemmy: Go to “all” and sort by New Comments. Find additional communities you like. Subscribe. Comment. Vote. Post. Now your front-page is more for you.

    I can’t wait for the weighted algo in the new release, which increases the weighting of posts from smaller communities so they don’t get drowned out. In the meantime, I guess I’ll look at more risa memes ;)

    • Fisch@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Didn’t know they’re working on implementing that, sounds like a very good change. I noticed that smaller communities kinda get “drowned out” by bigger ones as well.

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I must be doing something wrong because mastodon.social instance has like max 50 things on a hashtag, no local content, and I can’t find anything interesting browsing “posts.”

      Also, you can’t browse any other instances on the app. I have pretty much stopped using it. It’s 80% US politics

      • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        I don’t browse Mastodon – twitter never appealed to me, so it’s replacements don’t either. So I cannot comment on the technicalities. However, this thread you’re replying to is from Lemmy, so you’re clearly accessing at least one other instance (a Lemmy instance in this case, rather than a Mastodon instance).