I left Lemmy to come here to join the fed not too long ago. I went through the setup and joined a bunch of communities. The most active one I spend reading is Selfhosted. Besides that I’m on my home page using the default “hot” and “subscribe” sorts enabled and I see the same thing all day every other day. I see people say it’s not that active and I know this isn’t Reddit with its volume but it can’t be that inactive here. I’ve tried “hot/new” and “all” just it seems to be a bunch of RSS feeds with no human context or interaction. With I’m doing something wrong or the communities I’ve joined aren’t active enough or both.
if there are low activity communities you are interested in then click the bell icon so you get every post since they are so low activity. I actually unsubscribed to anything that was not real important for me to find later. So I mostly use subscribe as a way of keeping a list of communities I want to reference. EDITED: I forgot to mention block liberally. Its counterintuitive but good content can get drowned by stuff you don’t like. blocking communities you 100% have no interest in and users who are aweful will keep that rough from hiding the diamonds.