Back in the day, using Reddit, I only subscribed to one or two subs and would just type the name in Rif search to go to another. Jerboa doesn’t allow that, and search doesn’t always find the community. So when I see a post from a community I want to return to, I’m subscribing to it.

  1. Is this a good idea? Is it causing increased load on the server end?

How are you managing communities?

Edit: thank you for all the replies. Very helpful.

  • MyNameIsFred@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Mashing subscribe to anything looking interesting and seeing how it goes.

    Removing ones that aren’t useful.

  • ShadowAether@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Is this a good idea?

    Yes, this is how lemmy is meant to be used.

    Is it causing increased load on the server end?

    Maybe, if you’re the only person on the instance that’s subscribed to that community but it’s not abnormal usage.

  • ciagovvEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    You can do that in jerboa. The thing is that the name may not be exactly the same, and, depending on your instance, it may take more or less time, but searching for communities is perfectly possible.

    Lemmy.ml and the other mainstream instances are overloaded, and thats why it appears as if it doesn’t work

  • Wen Astar@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Reddid was / is a lot more lively, with enough posts in a day that I had to turn off notifications. Lemmy has not as many users around the world, and subocribing to a lot of communities does not equal reddit traffic at all.

    I feel this is restful, and it offers the opportunity to learn new stuff. Also, by subscribing to different communities on different instances, you mix it up and make everything link together more tightly.

    There might be a future when you have to currail your subscriptions, but just now, you are doing everything right.