It seems to me that over the last two weeks, the Lemmy experience has been worsening. My front page and communities are filled with Reddit re-posting bots.
While this gives off a feeling of being active, it’s like a ghost town invaded by AI.
But if I block these bots, I also take the risk that I’m unable to participate in actual conversations between non-bot Lemmy participants.
Filter settings seem to have the biggest effect on my experience, with the default being the worst and seemingly just showing the same stuff for days on end. I haven’t really figured out which of the others is best for seeing new stuff, but ‘New’ or ‘Top 6 hours’ tend to give better results I think. Then it’s been a slow process of blocking communities or users I don’t want to see. Eventually I assume once my subscribed communities hit a certain threshold I can just filter by subscribed, but for me I still have to go by All, since the communities I’m on don’t have a ton of posts coming in.
Memmy finally seems to be taking language into account now, as for about a week or so my feed was filled with foreign-language posts I couldn’t read. Overall, it seems like a bit more work to get a good feed going than that other site we know, but I’m hopeful it will get better over time.