I haven’t used it, but with a simple search I found:

gusVLZ/lemmy_handshake

Mobile tool to synchronize multiple accounts across instances

What can be synced

• Communities subscribed across accounts
• Saved posts and comments
• Blocked users and communities

What can’t be synced

• Account posts
• Account comments
• Account votes

There are alternative front-ends that you could try.

The 3 frontends for browser / PC that I know (default, mlmym and alexandrite) have this problem. Do you know of any other one that works?

Thanks!

Or maybe I need to subscribe to fewer news communities?

That’s my take: curation. It only mitigates some of the issues and you still need to put some effort almost everyday, but it’s the only way for me to make it beareable.

The first thing I did on Lemmy was to set the homepage to “Subscribed”, and only went to “All” a few times to populate a small inital list of communities. From that point, you can organically discover the rest.

I also recommend an RSS reader, it’s the best way to get control of “your homepage”.

But I’ve never tried the other option you mention: more private circles (paid substacks, discords, …), so I cannot compare.

No worries, it seems to not be working properly, not your fault! :)

I see you posted this article to 4 communities. According to the comments on this post if you use the cross post function (in the default web frontend), it will only show once in the feeds instead of 4 times (which can be a bit annoying).

If you use an app or a different frontend, I don’t know if it’ll work.
It’s also possible that you have crossposted them and lemmy is not grouping them properly, in that case, please ignore this comment.

Thanks