I have never understood why people would like Lemmy and then look at any feed other than subscribed. You might as well use mastodon if just a free flow of posts is your thing. I do like the list of keywords though for those rare occasions I look at the universal feed.

I have lots of thoughts on this one. I totally agree that the amount of junk out there is on the increase. One of the reason I like Reddit/Lemmy is to crowd source the findings for worthwhile content. I think the secret is being selective of what you subscribe to. I also use reeder by Readwise and let it summarize using AI anything I throw its way. I then use the summary to decide if I even want to read the full content. I’m staring to pay more attention to platforms like Substack and paying for content. In general the problem you highlight is one that I think AI can’t help greatly in fixing. Maybe an AI that knows you and can pre read something and tell you if you should even bother.

Ah, interesting. I did not know that, but it makes sense.

Not sure about resource usage but a single instance for a given community mean a single point of failure.

This is a great idea. Instances will need eventually to agree to common storage areas, even if they dont all allow the same content on their instance. That savings would be huge in the long run.

Well, I have joined communities on other servers where I am the first to join. At that point, it shows up on my server and others on my server can also see it listed, but posts on my server to that group only get updated from the day I joined forward. That’s what I meant.

I hope at some point you can join a community on another server and see all posts, not be restricted to what gets posted from now on. Federated is great, but some way to make it transparent would be cool.

Just search for the URL of the community. It worked for me.

I have had better luck with this one. Why does this work in a way that makes the users jump through hoops to discover what is out there?

https://browse.feddit.de

I think Lemmy itself should have a built-in search for all instances. This is the biggest source of confusion when you are first trying to find stuff to subscribe to.

This will sort itself out as people get used to and understand the fediverse better. I think not having a good cross instance search for communities is part of the contributing factor to this confusion. At least it was for me.

Give it time, and be one of the people who contribute thoughtful posts on the topics you’re interested in.