Personally subscribed to 126, and it's steadily growing by 2-4 each week. But curious to how many you are subscribed to too. Feel free to share your favorite community too!

You can use Photon webUI (if your instance supports it) to easily check this; https://photon..tld.

Happy Easter! 🐣🌻

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[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I started just looking at Everything, and blocking the groups I'm not interested in.

[–] PlantJam@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Same, except I just look at all local communities. All communities lemmy wide ends up having too many duplicates.

[–] april@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

None I just look at new because there's not enough content on Lemmy to filter it

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

706

Most are empty of new content which is fine. Pretty much the only stuff I unsubscribe to is tech or politics subs that seem overrun with bad opinions, or meme / fluff content. In particular I like:

[–] Today@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Fake history porn is fun, but slow.

[–] ikka@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much the only stuff I unsubscribe to is tech or politics subs

Same, same.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Here is my unscientific assessment, presented with maximal pissing everyone off energy:

!technology@lemmy.world @lemmy.world - Idiots
!linux@lemmy.ml @lemmy.ml - Idiots
!technology@beehaw.org @beehaw.org - Fine
!world@lemmy.world @lemmy.world - Shouty, bad opinions
!technology@lemmy.ml @lemmy.ml - Absolutely massive idiots
!worldnews@lemmy.ml @lemmy.ml - Shouty bad opinions backed by the firepower of mod censorship
!programmerhumor@lemmy.ml @lemmy.ml - Idiots
!opensource@lemmy.ml @lemmy.ml - More idiots
!news@beehaw.org @beehaw.org - Kinda quiet but fine
!news@lemmy.world @lemmy.world - Bad opinions
!politics@lemmy.world @lemmy.world - Fine, weirdly enough (aside from a massive and vocal shill population)
!programming@programming.dev @programming.dev - More massive idiots

I guess maybe it's offensive that I'm calling so many people idiots. I'm not tryin to be offensive or insult any particular reader or poster or any person in particular; I'm just talking about the general vibe of the sub. Especially on the tech subs, there's just this really notable feature that the level of how much people understand things is really unusually low, and the level of how confident they are in their opinions and passing judgement on everything and arguing about it is really unusual and shockingly high.

So like as an example take this post. Dude is coming in like "hey what do you think of this," posts a perfectly reasonable and actually really insightful and in-depth-knowledgeable article, and a whole bunch of people who the point of the article went totally over their heads come in to tell him "BRO HE DON'T KNOW WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT, C IS LOW LEVEL, HOW CAN YOU SAY IT'S NOT." It was absolutely unanimous. I really tried to come up with a different word for what that is, that wouldn't be offensive, but I couldn't manage it. It's just... I don't know. It's a toxic and unproductive environment that makes me not want to be involved.

[–] ikka@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I have so many of these blocked lol.

I blocked so many meme communities which helped my ALL feed look better, but then it was filled with political shit. The problem is, any time something controversial happens regarding someone the broader community doesn't like (elon musk, trump, republicans in general), you have thread after thread after thread of this shit popping up. I don't care to hear why republican bad, because I already know republican bad. I'm an intellectually curious being with better things to do with my time than hear about the latest political thing.

And then finally as you said, the technology communites can be a bit tiresome, like when there's a post about every single time a frickin' library updates.

~~!technology@lemmy.world @lemmy.world - Idiots~~

!linux@lemmy.ml @lemmy.ml - Idiots

~~!technology@beehaw.org @beehaw.org - Fine~~

~~!world@lemmy.world @lemmy.world - Shouty, bad opinions~~

!technology@lemmy.ml @lemmy.ml - Absolutely massive idiots

~~!worldnews@lemmy.ml @lemmy.ml - Shouty bad opinions backed by the firepower of mod censorship~~

~~!programmerhumor@lemmy.ml @lemmy.ml - Idiots~~

!opensource@lemmy.ml @lemmy.ml - More idiots

~~!news@beehaw.org @beehaw.org - Kinda quiet but fine~~

~~!news@lemmy.world @lemmy.world - Bad opinions~~

~~!politics@lemmy.world @lemmy.world - Fine, weirdly enough (aside from a massive and vocal shill population)~~

!programming@programming.dev @programming.dev - More massive idiots

[–] Today@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

112 but at least half are silent/gone. What are your favs?

[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Yeah, it’s interesting what lives and what doesn’t. Star Trek stuff…? Still big on the website. LOTR stuff? Basically a dead corpse.

I really wonder how long Lemmy will really last. It really feels like a website sustained by like 5 dudes mostly reposting content, with any actual discussion becoming increasingly circlejerk-y as time goes on.

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[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 4 points 7 months ago

Thanks for asking, some of my favs are:

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 6 points 7 months ago

mander.xyz account: 100~150. Sometimes I browse "all" and "local" but it's specifically to look for new comms to subscribe to.

ani.social account: 15~20. I typically browse there by "local".

[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

I'm following a few dozen, but as others have said, there's little enough content that I just sort by Scaled and browse Everything. The Voyager app has an option to block all NSFW content (I wish it had the opposite for my alt account though! 😅) and I block non-nsfw communities that I don't care about (like a lot of the sports team ones).

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

895, I don't think all of them are active or even still going (were replaced by bigger instances).

[–] Minotaur@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not a ton because my app crashes every time I use the search function. I get what the lord gives me

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What app are you using?

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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Almost 60 something, I mostly browse by subscribed or local and still get content.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I dont have photon because I didnt know it exists and I would have to make a separate subdomain for it if I understand correctly.

Can you point me to what photon exactly is?

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Ok, so don't quote me on this cos I'm not 100% sure about it. But, it's a alternative webui frontend, that needs to be enabled/installed by admin of your instance in order to work. I don't know much more than that, other than that it making Lemmy looking real nice 😊

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't have to be installed on your instance, you can also use the official web app instance. It's very similar to how Voyager works.

https://phtn.app

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[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for elaborating! I might look into it. :)

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No problem, have a nice day 🌻

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thank you so much for the nice good bye! Its rare on lemmy for people to be this friendly. Respect! :)

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 months ago

❤️

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[–] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

16 but I mostly browse all.

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

0 cause I feel there's not enough content to have subscriptions so I just scroll by top/active.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 7 months ago

Interesting take. What would „enough“ be?

[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I remember posting this question just after the Reddit exodus so went back to look at my stats from back then. According to the post I'd been on Lemmy for 12 days and had subscribed to:

121 Lemmy communities
42 Kbin magazines
163 total

That was just on this account though, and I have two accounts with fairly different feeds. So let's say I was probably on a total of around 180-200 then across both accounts, and have been adding them at a slow but steady rate

That gives us a scientifically sound estimate of my current total subscriptions: a lot.

[–] murmelade@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

12 and half are duplicates from other instances. They are mostly dead so I browse all and my blocklist is very very very big.

[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago

100 exactly. Which is oddly round.

[–] vikinghoarder@infosec.pub 3 points 7 months ago

a whole page when viewing the subscribed communities

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Is there an easier way to count?

I have 13 pages so at 50 per page that makes 600-650, the majority of those are dead though.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

would be nice if the communities page could show the date of the most recent post or something

but I guess anything with 0 users per month is obviously dead, unless it's like an infrequently used announcements community

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[–] TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

About 4 for each topic it seems

[–] Kierunkowy74@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

But I still browse by "all".

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Personally I don't even subscribe to any. I just browse all and then filter out any community that pops up which I don't think I'll ever be interested in.

I started to subscribe to a few but when browsing subscribed only I felt like I was potentially missing so much, because maybe I subscribed to the wrong "aww" instance but I also didn't want to go through and find the 3-4 different versions to subscribe to.

This way I see everything, except the stuff that I definitely don't want to see (like most of the porn instances, non-english instances, etc.)

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

141

[–] gunpachi@lemmings.world 2 points 7 months ago

About 106 communities.

[–] mike_wooskey@lemmy.d.thewooskeys.com 2 points 7 months ago

[–] MxRemy@lemmy.one 2 points 7 months ago

Omg soooo manyyyyyy. I dunno how to count them in-app but it's gotta be at least a hundred.

[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 2 points 7 months ago

The photon UI supports every instance at https://phtn.app, your instance doesn't have to officially support it.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

like 4 because i just browse everything.

[–] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

20 on my SFW account. I almost never browse by subscribed, though. Not enough content.

[–] ArtVandalist@lemmus.org 1 points 7 months ago

All of them. (I only visit /all)

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