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Delete the All feed! It's just stupid. Subscribe to what you like. Maybe have a short glimpse at the All feed on a biweekly basis for 5min, but that's it.
I default to subscribed+scaled, and I check all+top 6-24 hours when I feel like staying on top of news. It works pretty well.
How do you find what you like? I sew, and do dollhouse miniatures, but I haven't seen any of that on the fediverse yet.
Be the change you want to see.
For now you could post to !Art_Alchemist_Guild@lemmy.today which has a little bit of everything. I'd love to check out your projects.
Ehhh, the sidebar makes it sound like a super depressing place, but thanks!
Fair enough.
Check out lemmyverse.net to find communities. If you set your home instance (top right, button with a home icon, enter
slrpnk.netin your case), then it will open the page where you can subscribe directly. There's a longer guide here with more tips: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/finding-communitiesIf you aren't sure what you want to subscribe to, there is a list pinned on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca ~~@blaze@piefed.zip had an amazing list of non-politics communities that unfortunately I can't seem to find right now.~~
Once Lemmy releases the big v1 update, both Lemmy and Piefed will have multi-communities that you can subscribe to in order to get a lot of similar content.
As for your requests specifically, check out these. Some are more relevant than others, and the small ones grow as interested people post to them:
Slrpnk also has a full list of every community on it and I love that
Also, not who you're responding to but I just subbed to all of those, thank you!
No problem!
The list is pinned on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca !
That's the one I forgot to check 🤦 I looked in !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
Thanks!
Yeah, unfortunately the Fediverse isn't as big as I'd like it to be. I can't find people to talk about some of my interests, either. I'll occasionally put in keywords on https://lemmyverse.net/communities , have a look at PieFed's curated feeds and topics (Edit: another topic list)... But there's probably just not enough people here who are into miniatures...
I just went looking for something similar after getting into battletech. I know thats too niche for fedi but I was hoping to find a comm for minis/painting/wargaming or similar catchall.
There's !grimdank@piefed.social
Sub to all the new com communities, and keep your eyes peeled for any links to interesting stuff in the comments and then immediately subscribe if it seems at all interesting.
But the reality is that niche comms don't really fire on Lemmy yet, so you'll mainly find stuff that's either mass appeal or nerd/leftist stuff.
I tried to create a community about trees (the wooden kind) when I joined. It's still here but after a lot of effort posting there I realized there just wasn't enough of an audience to keep organic discussions going at all times. Same with my local geographic area.
Hopefully someday there will be more growth and these can start to become more viable.
The trouble, I think, is that even Reddit wasn't Reddit (as we think of it now) for years and years. Recall that when it started, there were no subreddits, it was all one feed. The niche subreddits branched off of more general ones after participation grew and critical mass developed, the subreddit topics driven by what users were talking about.
It doesn't work the other way around. You can create a community to house a topic that people want to talk about; you can't make people interested in a topic just by creating a community. I think we've suffered by premature fissioning into a thousand niche communities, each with 1 or 2 people talking to themselves.
It’s definitely a volume thing. With niche interest, you’ll bump into this limitation quite frequently.
If you build it and interact with it, they will come (eventually). I think there's a few crafts communities? I can't remember. If not, create it, share with us your awesome creations!
I get that, it feels small and slow if you only follow the niche stuff. I hate insta but miss the creative and inspirational aspect. I mix in a little pinterest and pixelfed but it is still repetitive.
I guarantee there are sewing and maker/hobbyist communities.
Yeah those posts probably never see the light of day because someone downvotes them while sorting by new
Another problem solved by using subscribed instead of new
Maybe you should try that
I browse all but I have an extensive set of word filters that block stuff that I don't want to see. I like seeing new communities come up and trying to make All work because of that. I did the same thing with Reddit like 20 years ago, though I switched to a subscribed feed there once they got big (before I left). This strategy works well for me.
Word filters is a great idea.
this place would be empty if I did that
Haha, yeah, pick your poison. Though we're a diverse crowd. I really appreciate how there isn't an endless stream of doomscrolling for me. My feed just ends at some point and reminds me to resume with other things 😅 (Also less noise, US politics and mainstream memes, which would be the real reason why I'd advise not to scroll All.)