The relief when I open up Lemmy or Mastodon. It feels like coming home to an experience I didn’t realise I was missing. Lemmy has grown enough now that I can look at my feed throughout the day and there will be interesting posts, all with engaging comments and conversations. It’s like the internet I grew up on, only better: it’s ran by the people, for the people.
Obviously, that doesn’t mean the fedi isn’t plagued with issues. But it feels fundamentally more culturally healthy than whatever the fuck is going on in big corpo social media.
I found this too initially. What I did was (and this may not work for you but it’s probably worth a whirl) only subscribe to easygoing / fun / quirky stuff for my “home” feed which I sort by “scaled” then bail into the top twelve hours of the “All” feed to keep up to date with what’s happening in the world.
A quieter, pleasant home feed is a good start to your day.
Problem I find is that the moment you sub to something popular it swamps everything else
That’s where the scaled thing comes in. It prioritises infrequently posted in communities which I like.