I’ve just seen a lot of post recently complaining what they see on their front pages such as news, politics, endless memes, etc. But you do know if any of those subs bother you or seem excessive, you can filter the subs so that they don’t appear on your front page anymore. Filter memes and 196, and about 70 percent of the memes disappear. Filter world news and news, and bam, most of the news is gone. Don’t like politics? Me neither. Just filter politics and any other political subs and bam problem solved.
And let’s say you don’t want to spend an afternoon filtering subs you don’t want to see, and just want to see more games, hobbies, sports, etc. First sub to the communities you want to follow, then go to your settings. You can make it to where lemmy/kbin shows you your subs by default rather than what’s popular. Now you have an experience that is totally yours.
And let’s say you are not seeing the content you want to see regularly. The best way to ecourage diversity is to post yourself. Post frequently in the communities you want to grow. That’s what the people in the subs that annoy you did to start with. Almost all popular communities have at least one power user who regularly and frequently posts. Hell if you don’t want to block a community but want to see less from them, it’s not hard to find these power users and filter their content.
TLDR: Lemmy/kbin are extremely customizable. You can create the experience you want to have.
Subscribed feed + hot sort is the best way to experience Lemmy, I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about this 😅
I’m a more of a “New sort” personally, especially when I’m trying to find different communities in All. However, one little feature I’d really like is a domain block, mainly for some of the more bot-driven instances like fanaticus.
I would go in to settings & disable bot post visibility, but there’s some jank in that atm with either bot accounts not indicating they’re bots or that seeming to not be a feature in Kbin, so it wouldn’t address all of those types of accounts/posts.
I think a lot of people leave it on All, because they want to see new communities that are popping up as Lemmy grows. However you’re right, people need to start focusing on their subcribed comms for their day to day use and tailor that how they want it.
… Why? I actually want to be on all. I want to know what’s hot in this moment, be it interesting for me or not.
If people are on one of the larger instances they are probably better off trying Local over All.
Nah I disagree, the larger instances should never be the be all and end all. Sure, lots of instances are on lemmy.world, but man key ones are elsewhere.
The whole point of federated social media is that there’s more than one source, having one big source just undermines all that.
Agreed in theory, but Hot sort seems bugged for me :\ The few pages of results are good, but then it starts serving me posts from over a year ago
It will be nice when we’re able to block entire instances by instance, not just users and communities
NSFW instance would be nice to block entirely. Otherwise you see every odd fetish out there.
It’s possible on kbin if you go to kbin.social/d/instancename and then block it like you’d block a user or community
I tried that for a while and it didn’t seem to work, I was seeing threads from a blocked instance even on the list view. Oddly, there was one thread I saw where all of the comments were hidden because of this.
Though there isn’t a good way to see if anything is blocked as it should be (including with the language setting) but it’s obvious when something makes it through.
I still want better content sorting options, though. I don’t want to have to block a subset of content just so that I can see a different subset. Like sometimes I want a meme, sometimes I want to see what’s going on in the world. There are dozens of communities for each of those.
Other than blocking those communities, how does one “filter” content? You spend a lot of time talking about doing something and no time explaining how to do it.
Another thing worth noting is there is no algorithm here that is finding the posts that will suck you in for hours and hours. And that’s OK
No Curation, That’s what I like. the field is level when sorting to New, you can see everyone’s posts
