I too think the same way. I purposely stay away from all due to excessive doom and gloom. However I haven’t really found any topic specific instance where I would enjoy local content. Now I think finding interesting topic specific instances is a problem whose solution I haven’t found yet. Communities I can find using search function; I even created an account on lemmy world simply to find obscure communities I would be interested in. I wish there would be a simple search function to find topic specific instances.

Obviously this is just in initial research phase, very far from being unleashed on nature. It would be interesting to see how this research progresses.

That makes sense. For me, I am very sure about what topics/communities I am interested in; other things I am not interested in checking out. My subscribed field takes up the time I allocate to lemmy anyway.

I never browsed all on reddit all the years I was on it.

As a a casual lemmy user with accounts on a few instances, I can say that I never visit the local or all fields of any of my logged in instances. I only visit my subscribed field, which is identical over all my accounts. How much do the local and all fields really matter for users?

I could never say no to that face 🥰 The ears are very impressive.

Oh he is so cute. I so want to pet him. Give him a pet from my side.

Just gave a test. Did OK. Got one question wrong. Having tea and chilling right now.

Great. This is so useful.

Oh I love that channel. And this breed seems to be so healthy. Best part seems the life expectancy.

Yes, it’s like people are interested in getting their word out rather than reading other people’s stuff. Still I like that I have a chronological feed which I tweak slightly by muting users whose content I don’t care for and the best thing is that I can browse by hashtags. Without this I wouldn’t have got interested in Mastodon in the first place.

What breed are these tiny cute cotton balls?

Lol!

Aww he’s a cutie pie!

OK that makes sense. I have been using Mastodon for about a few weeks and one thing I have noticed is that most of the posts seem to have almost no comments or any other interaction. I have not yet been able to work out why. Mastodon has way more users than lemmy and also way more content. Then why so less interaction. Is it too many users? Too few users? Completely different platform? I have never used Twitter so can’t even compare with that.

That’s great. Now that’s an instance I sometimes feel like joining.

Aww such a cute pup! More pictures please?

Curious to know why it wouldn’t be a positive thing to get Mastodon people in the comments?

To keep negative things to a minimum I have subscribed to a cat community, aww community, two dog communities, and have restricted myself to only one technology community. No news communities.

Oh. Didn’t know about that breed. Learnt something new! Anyway, he is very cute.