This is just my basic perspective as a daily user since June 9th.
I was able to use just my subscribed communities feed up until a couple of weeks ago. I subscribed to a lot in the first 2 weeks of this thing exploding. Those initial communities are very engaging, but several have slowed down or are dead. I expected that. I've been using the "All" feed to try to engage with people and find new stuff. I've used it a lot, but there is a lack of engagement. I use the "new" sort priority to try to find active participants, but it seems lacking as viewed from .world. I have other instance made accounts, but I have not seen any differences. Anyone have suggestions about finding better engagement with positive people?
I browse by new to help start the conversation (one comment is enough to get people to click it), but it’s not a good way to find it actively happening.
If you sort by top of the last 1 or 6 hours you’ll probably have better results. Those are still pretty new but much more active conversation wise.