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.

are you contributing? This place is only as interesting as you make it

Sort by new. This isn't reddit.

gotta sort by new

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

How do you feel about posts about how people feel?

Be the change you want to see in the world

Hot and Active are currently broken, making the sites seem far less active than they actually are. Sorting by new is much more interesting. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076

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

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.

I'm subbed to a lot of communities & use Subscribed + New as my default sort.

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.

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.

I mean, it's kinda in it's first week of real content output so there's obviously not gonna be a lot here yet

Don't worry, it'll become more lively as time goes on! Once Reddit is even more hostile to its userbase, we will have more people here.

I don't really have this issue. I went through every community yesterday and joined every one I wanted to. I have my feed set to subscribed and new so it's always changing. I really suggest going through the community list.

You have to also remember there aren't the same amount of people on lemmy that are on reddit. It's going to take a minute for communities to grow and post more often.

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.

Sounds like your feed settings are wacky. I use Local + New and I get new content all the time. You could even do All and you should for sure see new content. I don’t feel like your post is valid.

Try sorting by Top-Day

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.

Not boring at all.

Sort by new comments and other similar options. And just post stuff wherever. The reason why 195/196/197 get so big consistently is because posting works.

Lemmy is boring for now maybe. With new users and more content coming things will be much better. Just think that you are one of the pioneers and contribute.

Post more content here and help make it less boring. More content will attract more users, which will result in more content. We need to grow the community.

Sort by hot (or new if hot doesn't work) instead of active.

I’m trying to use this time as a reset. I spent too much time on Reddit so it’s a good thing I’m not doom scrolling on Lemmy. Reddit was a good source of memes and outrage, but if we’re honest with ourselves, is that really healthy for us?

I started to sort it by new, as I always get the same posts otherwise

Your first post is a complaint about things being boring.

Maybe try engaging a bit.

things are a lot slower here than on reddit. because we simply have far less users. naturally that means niche content isn't going to be that active, and even bigger topics will be much slower.

in terms of "how people feel", I think it's just because a lot of people are just starting to settle in. ultimately though: be the change you wanna see. if you wanna see other topics, post about them :)

It's early days. Give the culture time to develop.

I sort by new and subscribed. And my subscriptions span the fediverse. Plenty of new interesting content.

Due to the the newness and smaller communities to start, the sorting algorithm favors the few more active posts on the larger communities/instances. As others have suggested sorting by subscribed or local + new allows for a more constant stream of new content atm

Do keep in mind both lemmy and kbin are in the alpha stages and both were relatively slow/calm before the whole reddit thing happened so the devs were caught by surprise.

Try out one of the kbin instances and see what you think. It has lemmy + kbin + mastodon integration. Some of the kbin instances are listed on here: https://kbin.pub/en

I just opened user registration on my kbin instance yesterday so it hasn't been added to the list yet, but feel free to try any of them!