I’m looking to add some variety to my kbin subscriptions, so I would like to know: what’s your favorite magazine/instance or one you find yourself spending the most time on?
I’m looking to add some variety to my kbin subscriptions, so I would like to know: what’s your favorite magazine/instance or one you find yourself spending the most time on?
I don’t consciously make these calculations either, but what you just described sounds exactly like how I choose what to click on. Also came here for suggestions!
I’ll say that I’ve looked up hobbies I enjoy but don’t think about much so I can boost my engagement on the Fediverse. Normally I wouldn’t bother, but I want to help this place grow, so I’ve let in things that I have a milder interest in as well as my usual interests. This is also how I get variety in the posts I see, as I usually stick to /sub. When I wander out, it’s on purpose and to a specific known community, because /all usually has some depressing political news or ragebait that would get me to outrage-click. I’m here to have a good time, not to doomscroll or get angry. Kbin has no algorithm intended to keep us scrolling on it, but those things do generate the most engagement, so it’s only natural they end up on /all frequently enough (though not as frequently as they’d appear on the popular page on Reddit) that I feel a desire to avoid /all.
That’s actually one of the reasons I created this post, to kind of cast a wider net so I can engage more to help growth. I currently have around 20 or so subscriptions, but I’d say really only 2 or 3 are super active. Which isn’t a bad thing per se, but in the magazines I do post threads in, I sometimes seem to be the only person posting. But the content has got be there somehow!