I’ve subscribed to a plethora of communities that really interest me and actually have posts and discussions in them, but I have to go to the specific community to see this. My “Subscribed” feed only contains a few of the same posts that I’ve seen for weeks in Hot, the same posts from even longer ago in “Active”, posts from the same communities as the ones in “Hot” in New and no other communities, and pretty much only posts from the Meme’s community I unsubscribed from when sorted by “All”. I also see a majority of posts barely have upvotes or comments on them at all from the “bigger” communities. Is this just the growing pains of this site? Am I still doing lemmy wrong? Is it the instance I’ve chosen to join?
UPDATE I want to thank everyone who posted and gave me helpful advice on this matter. It turns out that there are still lots of people here on Lemmy with me, I just couldn’t see you because I was sorting my feed incorrectly. I’m excited that there are more people here and I’m excited to continue to contribute to Lemmy with you! Thank you all for the help, I really appreciate it.
I feel the same way and made a post about it yesterday that got hammered with downvotes.
Nothing as fun as a toxic place that purports itself to be different when people do the same behavior. There shouldn’t be anything wrong with being confused and asking questions. People need to stop downvoting newcomers into oblivion if they want this place to grow but people who are on here longer think they own it and don’t like to share.
I like how two people still downvoted you. I’ve seen this behavior before in niche online games.
That’s why this will never be really better than Reddit. The attitude is here to stay. It’s a societal issue not Reddit itself. Oh well.