I’ve been on Lemmy for 12 days apparently, feels like a lifetime! And I keep seeing posts about how it’s too empty or there’s no content outside of the Reddit drama or whatever.
So it got me thinking, am I just subbed to way more stuff than most? Because I go into the “all” tab maybe once a day, and keep busy in “subscribed” the rest of the time.
Here’s my stats:
- 121 Lemmy communities
- 42 Kbin magazines
- 163 total
That’s for this account, although I also have a second account for slightly different topics so there’s probably another 20-30 or so unique subs on there.
How about you?
Looks like I’m currently at 79. I have at least twice that blocked as I try to customize my experience as much as possible.
I browse all/active on kbin and it just keeps those from popping up when there are newer or popular threads. Like, I’m not interested in furry stuff so I blocked all those so that they don’t populate on my feed no matter how I sort it.
Oh I understand. My home instance is a very small one (maybe 30 users) so I am really only concerned with what should subscribe to and not what I should block. It makes sense to need that if you have a big home instance that you can use the all/active feed with.
What are kbin magazines. Different than communities? Where
I don’t know if you’ve heard of Kbin in general but it’s just another Fediverse platform like Lemmy, and has its own community equivalent called magazines. Users from Lemmy can sub to magazines, and users from Kbin can sub to our communities, so essentially it’s all just one big forum with two different ways of viewing content. Some people prefer the Kbin UI, others prefer the Lemmy one.
For most of my interests I’ve found Lemmy is the more active one, but it just depends on topic. Check out their list of magazines here: https://kbin.social/magazines
To subscribe, you’ll need to go through the palaver of searching for the magazine on your home instance same as you do with communities. The difference is instead of !this@syntax, just search for the full URL of the Kbin mag.
92 ‘subs’ so far.
I’m on 13 communities in this instance and a few more in Beehaw. I purged my Reddit account over a week ago and didn’t keep track of all the subs. But I realized how much clutter I had. So, I’m going to be more selective now.
Also, I’ve heard kbin a few times. Should I be making an account over there?
Not as many as I should be. Clicking links to mags/comms often opens them in a new window that I’m not logged into, then the login screen freezes.
Yeah it can be annoying following a remote link by accident and having to do the whole copy/paste rigmarole to subscribe.
I have a bookmarklet installed in my browser that I can hit to be redirected to the current community but from within my home instance. Can’t remember who originally made it or I’d give them a shoutout. But anyway copy this to your bookmarks bar and it should help streamline things a lot.
javascript:(function() {const myInst="feddit.uk";let currUrl=window.location.toString().split("/");let currInst=currUrl[2];currUrl[2]=myInst;let newUrl=currUrl.join("/")+"@"+currInst;window.location=newUrl;})()
You’ll still get some 404s of course from communities that haven’t been indexed on feddit.uk yet, so you’ll need to fall back on the copy/paste method there. But still, that gets less common every day :)
