I don’t know, I don’t feel that I have updates I need to get… I just scroll Lemmy and discuss things for a while, then do other things. I’m happy it doesn’t have tons of activity because social media is not supposed to take over our lives.
I see people on the bus sitting on tiktok and I feel sorry for them.
And as for switching instances, you are doing it wrong. You can subscribe to any community in the fediverse right from your instance.