EDIT: Thanks for the replies, everyone. From what I’ve gathered, I just have to be more patient, so I’ll wait for the communities relevant to me to pop up. In the meantime, I’ll temper my expectations and continue using my community as a resource repository and continue linking them to people I meet online who need them.
Maybe I’m just using it wrong, but I’m returning for more than a minute after a few weeks due to having exams to study for, and there’s no notifications.
My community literally stopped in time after my last post, and I’m guessing it won’t resume until I work down my queue of things to post after my finals are over.
I’m subscribed to several communities I was interested in on Reddit, but even knowing I have to switch to my subscribed communities every time I log in, the feed seems very different, almost lacking in ways I can’t describe. For example, a big popular one about games hasn’t been posting any posts about any games I care about, and when I search for a community for the games I do care about, they simply don’t exist.
It’s just really jarring to try to engage after a few weeks of logging in here and there to check on anything I missed, and nothing of note has really happened.
As others have said it works better in a more general way. I find its better to block things you are uninterested in completely and then browse all. Especially since I find the same communities will pop up again and again under various instances. I sometimes think folks make meme communities just for themselves to make memes. I would love a term blocker where I could dictate to block any community where X appears in the community name or description but like I don’t want to block X if it appears in a comment. I think there is some issue with what people are used to from like reddit. Like people are self limiting themselves because they don’t want to be going on about one specific game in games and want to instead make a community about just the particular game. Thing is stuff like that has to just be talked about in something like games until it becomes to much. if it is to much its ready for its own community.