How many communities are you subscribed to?
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; https://photon.
<your instance>
.tld.Happy Easter! 🐣🌻
I started just looking at Everything, and blocking the groups I'm not interested in.
Same, except I just look at all local communities. All communities lemmy wide ends up having too many duplicates.
None I just look at new because there's not enough content on Lemmy to filter it
706
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:
Fake history porn is fun, but slow.
Pretty much the only stuff I unsubscribe to is tech or politics subs
Same, same.
Here is my unscientific assessment, presented with maximal pissing everyone off energy:
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.
112 but at least half are silent/gone. What are your favs?
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.
Thanks for asking, some of my favs are:
mander.xyz account: 100~150. Sometimes I browse "all" and "local" but it's specifically to look for new comms to subscribe to.
ani.social account: 15~20. I typically browse there by "local".
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).
Not a ton because my app crashes every time I use the search function. I get what the lord gives me
What app are you using?
Memmy
895, I don't think all of them are active or even still going (were replaced by bigger instances).
Almost 60 something, I mostly browse by subscribed or local and still get content.
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:
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.
I dont have photon because I didnt know it exists and I would have to make a separate subdomain for it if I understand correctly.
Can you point me to what photon exactly is?
Ok, so don't quote me on this cos I'm not 100% sure about it. But, it's a alternative webui frontend, that needs to be enabled/installed by admin of your instance in order to work. I don't know much more than that, other than that it making Lemmy looking real nice 😊
Doesn't have to be installed on your instance, you can also use the official web app instance. It's very similar to how Voyager works.
making Lemmy looking real nice
I just checked it out. It looks like new Reddit.
16 but I mostly browse all.
0 cause I feel there's not enough content to have subscriptions so I just scroll by top/active.
Interesting take. What would „enough“ be?
About 4 for each topic it seems
100 exactly. Which is oddly round.
29
a whole page when viewing the subscribed communities
141
Is there an easier way to count?
I have 13 pages so at 50 per page that makes 600-650, the majority of those are dead though.
would be nice if the communities page could show the date of the most recent post or something
but I guess anything with 0 users per month is obviously dead, unless it's like an infrequently used announcements community
I use the Photon web UI, so its listed at the top of the community nav bar. Photon is really quite neat :)
If your instance supports it, then you can browse to: https://photon.INSTANCE.tld
Doesn't look like it's installed on mander, shame.
Personally I don't even subscribe to any. I just browse all and then filter out any community that pops up which I don't think I'll ever be interested in.
I started to subscribe to a few but when browsing subscribed only I felt like I was potentially missing so much, because maybe I subscribed to the wrong "aww" instance but I also didn't want to go through and find the 3-4 different versions to subscribe to.
This way I see everything, except the stuff that I definitely don't want to see (like most of the porn instances, non-english instances, etc.)
Omg soooo manyyyyyy. I dunno how to count them in-app but it's gotta be at least a hundred.
12 and half are duplicates from other instances. They are mostly dead so I browse all and my blocklist is very very very big.
About 106 communities.
64
63 subs here. Most of them aren't active though...
like 4 because i just browse everything.
The photon UI supports every instance at https://phtn.app, your instance doesn't have to officially support it.
1,022 give or take a few as we don't have Photon, yet, but it's in the to-do list.
how does photon compare to alexandrite?
Not tried Alexandrite in a while, personally wasn't a fan of the layout and the colour palette.
Fair enough 🤷♂️
Almost 250
20 on my SFW account. I almost never browse by subscribed, though. Not enough content.
124
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.