My disclaimer is that I am excited using the fediverse as alternative from Reddit (I have switched to Mastodon from Twitter).

I have been trying a combination of lemmy.world, kbin and a lemmy app like MemmyApp. Each one, I look at “All” and try various things like “hot”, “active”, “top day” and etc. Each one produces different results. And it is not even close. Rarely are there same posts across each. Also, on lemmy.world, after I sort on one of these, a few seconds go by and it won’t stop scrolling with a blast from same communities and users.

So… what is it I am doing wrong? How do I make my experience more enjoyable? Am I the only one?

(Note: I am aware that kbin/lemmy have their own local and therefore, that would be different, but the “All” filter?)

  • I_will_eat_that@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I keep getting that “blast” of posts you describe, too. Glad it’s not just me. Probably just growing pains as others have said

  • pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    “All” will be different on different instances - it’s basically all of the communities/magazines that anyone on that server follows. On large servers this’ll cover just about everything but not on smaller servers. Plus there is probably a lot less cross-subscription between Lemmy and Kbin than within each. The two may also have different algorithms for the hot/active lists.

    The scrolling thing is a bug with Lemmy. It’s been resolved with version 18 but some instances, including lemmy.world, haven’t updated yet.

  • snailwizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think for now it’s working as intended. There is an unprecedented amount of new users, after all. I imagine that over time, probably by the end of the year, communication between instances will be much more seamless once bugs get squashed

  • tallwookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    my limited understanding is that the federating of information between disparate instances is not real-time. it takes a while for things to filter through the fediverse