Personally subscribed to 126, and it’s steadily growing by 2-4 each week. But curious to how many you are subscribed to too. Feel free to share your favorite community too!
You can use Photon webUI (if your instance supports it) to easily check this; photon.<your instance>.tld.
Yeah, it’s interesting what lives and what doesn’t. Star Trek stuff…? Still big on the website. LOTR stuff? Basically a dead corpse.
I really wonder how long Lemmy will really last. It really feels like a website sustained by like 5 dudes mostly reposting content, with any actual discussion becoming increasingly circlejerk-y as time goes on.
I’m following a few dozen, but as others have said, there’s little enough content that I just sort by Scaled and browse Everything. The Voyager app has an option to block all NSFW content (I wish it had the opposite for my alt account though! 😅) and I block non-nsfw communities that I don’t care about (like a lot of the sports team ones).
I remember posting this question just after the Reddit exodus so went back to look at my stats from back then. According to the post I’d been on Lemmy for 12 days and had subscribed to:
121 Lemmy communities
42 Kbin magazines
163 total
That was just on this account though, and I have two accounts with fairly different feeds. So let’s say I was probably on a total of around 180-200 then across both accounts, and have been adding them at a slow but steady rate
That gives us a scientifically sound estimate of my current total subscriptions: a lot.
Most are empty of new content which is fine. Pretty much the only stuff I unsubscribe to is tech or politics subs that seem overrun with bad opinions, or meme / fluff content. In particular I like:
I guess maybe it's offensive that I'm calling so many people idiots. I'm not tryin to be offensive or insult any particular reader or poster or any person in particular; I'm just talking about the general vibe of the sub. Especially on the tech subs, there's just this really notable feature that the level of how much people understand things is really unusually low, and the level of how confident they are in their opinions and passing judgement on everything and arguing about it is really unusual and shockingly high.
So like as an example take this post. Dude is coming in like "hey what do you think of this," posts a perfectly reasonable and actually really insightful and in-depth-knowledgeable article, and a whole bunch of people who the point of the article went totally over their heads come in to tell him "BRO HE DON'T KNOW WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT, C IS LOW LEVEL, HOW CAN YOU SAY IT'S NOT." It was absolutely unanimous. I really tried to come up with a different word for what that is, that wouldn't be offensive, but I couldn't manage it. It's just... I don't know. It's a toxic and unproductive environment that makes me not want to be involved.
I blocked so many meme communities which helped my ALL feed look better, but then it was filled with political shit. The problem is, any time something controversial happens regarding someone the broader community doesn’t like (elon musk, trump, republicans in general), you have thread after thread after thread of this shit popping up. I don’t care to hear why republican bad, because I already know republican bad. I’m an intellectually curious being with better things to do with my time than hear about the latest political thing.
And then finally as you said, the technology communites can be a bit tiresome, like when there’s a post about every single time a frickin’ library updates.
Less than 20. I just browse by all so the only reason I’m even subscribed to what I am subscribed to is to get to it faster or to actually have it show up on my instance, since at least 1 person on the instance has to subscribe to a community before it shows up in all for that instance and this is a smol instance.
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