Same posts each time I open my app, always the same boring topics about bugs and how people feel, this is getting old fast. Not that I am going back to reddit, but don’t think I will stay on lemmy either.

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    It does seem that both hot and active are moving pretty slowly. I’ve found that “new” is actually the way to see a constant stream of new content, so maybe giving that a try will help.

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      This a thousand times. I mainly lurked on Reddit and I’m trying to actually contribute here. Sometimes I fear that no one will care what I have to say, but someone needs to start the conversation.

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        Yeah, I’m the same, used to just lurk on Reddit. But with Lemmy trying to engage with the communities a bit more. Its actually quite nice, a small sense of camaraderie as people try to encourage everyone else to contribute.

        That and since Lemmy is open source and federated, I feel more comfortable here than Reddit

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      Contributing does little to help the issue at the moment, as the hot and active sort has crashed and stopped updating since a couple of days ago.

      Until that’s fixed, most users will be presented with the same posts every time they visit lemmy.world

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      Recommend subscribing to some communities local and federated, and then showing your subscriptions, so you’re not viewing only a local silo

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    There is a bug in the Lemmy backend causing hot and active ordering to give you stale posts in the frontpage. Switch to New and enjoy the A C T I V I T Y

    Warning: the frontpage will update very fast

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      I was struggling to understand why hot and active were showing only posts from days ago. I like both kbin and Lemmy though. Lemmy feels a bit more like classic Reddit to me.

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    Even the reddit was dead at its starting ages. Supporting lemmy and kbin eventhough its not perfect is the best.

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    Imho it’s boring because “active” is the default and works differently from reddit. It shows you active posts, as in posts that have a lot of new comments. This leads to some posts being on the front page for days.

    The filter “hot” is supposed to be like reddit, but is currently broken on a lot of instances.

    For the best experience I strongly recommend kbin.social since they have a working “hot” as their default giving you the most reddit-like experience out of all the instances I’ve tried.

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    What could help fighting the impression you have is subscribing to many communities that are interesting to you. Then turn your settings on “subscribed-new”. That should give you plenty of new content. If you need more, check “local-new” and if that also is not enough take “all-new”. This way you will have so much content that it will be like a waterfall and you are right under it.

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    The issue is you are sorting by “Active”, this is the default setting in Timeline.

    You need to change it to either “Hot” or “New”. I personally feel “Hot” is the better option.

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    I was feeling the same way until i browsed by New and found some interesting communities, plus subscribing to the ones that migrated or were similar to the ones i was subscribing on Reddit. Now i find interesting stuff but without that many memes, which is what actually sells lemmy to me tbh.