I saw this post which is completly unrelated to me making this post btw.
The way you sync communities makes a lot of sense when you only want to subscribe to certain communities, but when you want to see what’s going on lemmy it’s bad. When I scroll through all can’t shake the feeling that I could be not seeing some interesting posts. This is not only a problem that small instances have. I checked lemmy.ml and it had some posts missing from all: new that we can see. But this could also be because of defederating.
This problem is even worse with nsfw communities. They don’t show up when not logged in, so looking on other instances is useless. And the community search site in the sidebar doesn’t work well and doesn’t show nsfw, although lemmyverse.net works fine.
So what I’m saying is who on this instance is going to subcribe to furry porn, jk
I was using an account I had labeled as a bot to subscribe to every community listed but then a massive surge of people joined and I couldn’t keep up chronicling everything. I had all of beehaw and a lot of lemmy added.
If you want to see other instance’s communities here, subscribe to them from an account here. Sounds counter-intuitive but it’ll allow others here to see and join.
I know both of these things. I even subscribed to communities I am not that interested in, but I think they should show up in all. There are some communities that are interesting but I would have never searched for them. This is the main concern I have.
An account subscribing to every community would be the only solution I see atm, but as you said, it’s unrealistic. I could also browse through a whole community search site and look at every community, but that’s insane.
I don’t code and I would not feel comfortable asking someone else to. Using https://the-federation.info/platform/73 one could probably write a script that goes through each instance and adds every community.
Probably, but I am somehow skeptical that that works. Woudn’t such a tool already exist and be popular. Is what I would have said, but i found this https://github.com/lflare/lemmy-subscriber-bot
Yes I am concerned about it and we will probably miss some great posts. I don’t want to sugar coat it. There is not really much we can do as instance admins.
Yeah, I feel that content on all is not really showing up as much as I expect. Why that is, structurally, I don’t know, and hope it will change over time.
Though I am incredibly grateful that NSFW is filtered out. I don’t need porn or gore in my feed (I think it’s a setting I checked when I made my account).
I don’t think the instance is doing anything unusual. We are federated with a lot of instances and I don’t think any are blocked.
In the meantime, maybe stepping back a little from endless feeds is a good thing. I am trying to read more books again. Right now I’m on a Jared Diamond kick.