• TehBamski@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Well first off, welcome back!

    What kind of content or communities (that’s what we call subreddits,) are you looking for?

    If you’re looking for communities, I would suggest starting with this nifty website It has a visual database of… (checks notes) 28,178 communities (!?!) and 563 instances to choose from.

    If you’re looking for content, there’s nothing wrong with searching all and new. Check out [email protected] for help finding newer communities. And here is a long list of communities that aren’t political, full of memes or tech.

    And if you have any questions about Lemmy, head over to [email protected] for assistance.

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      2 days ago

      Wow, thanks for the suggestions! 🙏 I’m interested in nature, music, conlangs, poetry, songwriting… those are probably the main ones.

      Last time a big problem was my feed would literally not change for long periods… then it would update very slowly. I was wary of signing up to instances just to make my feed flow, because that would mean my feed would be full of things I’m not interested in. But I guess I just didn’t find the instances I was looking for.

      Will search again now!

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        Be default the sorting of your front page is likely set to “Active”, try different sorting options to see if that changes things.

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          I manually set it to New, but your point still stands. I’ll try some other settings too.

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          I would suggest setting your account to filter by “new” content. “Scale” is also useful. IIRC: It filters like “new” but uses an algorithm to show content from more of the subbed communities, instead of only showing content most recently posted, from your subs.