One of the most annoying parts about That Place, and also Lemmy, is curating your feed by blocking communities you have no interest in seeing.
I am not a sports person, so I need to block each sports team manually when I see it, and also each individual sport. It would be so much better if I could just block an instance called “Lemmy.sports”.
I’m glad Lemmy.nsfw is the default porn instance, I think we need to see more of this.
I know it’s too late to change at this point, but I think a feature to catagorise different communities would be nice, so I could block “sports” if I wanted to.
Alternatively, maybe down the line see a feature to import a community to a new instance without users having to migrate manually.
Huh… so personally I subscribe to communities that I actually do want to see, and then just use my subscribed feed.
I think that seems a lot easier.
I like that idea, but at the moment, Lemmy needs engagement with up-and-coming communities, so I want to boost content I think is good, not just from communities I’m explicitly interested in.
Also it’s a good way to find new communities.
It surprises me how many people apparently just dive right into to “All” feed. There’s waaaaayyy too much stuff I really don’t care about getting blasted into my eye-holes doing that.
It’s even more surprising when people claim they view the All feed on Mastodon. I mean… a good chunk of that is just bots barfing data that’s not even remotely related to me.
To me, “All” isn’t much better than letting The Algorithm pick what I read on Twitter/Reddit/Facebook/etc. Gross.
I use All to explore.
I start with subscribed, until everything on my feed starts to look familiar. Then switch to Local, which works well to find new communities because my instance is somewhat topical. And then if I run out of content, I move on to All to see what else is out there.
I’m not really scrolling All for content, I’m more on the lookout for interesting communities.
That’s how I used reddit. But kbin is still too inactive for that still (for the communities I primarily engaged with). At least I get a few dozen threads in a day now instead of a couple of thread in a day on my sub list like I did a few weeks ago (mostly from more activity, but also subscribed to some more communities). Hope it’ll get to the point where I rarely use all soon though.
You gotta dig through our stuff too. I’m on lemmy.world, signed up to, it sounds like, as many kbin mags as you are. But I’ve got 10x that much coming from lemmy.
You should be able to sub to stuff from both.
I’m subbed to 34 community, majority aren’t on kbin (they’re on various lemmy instances). Think part of the problem is a lot of the communities I regulared on reddit had a lot of people go to raddle instead of fediverse because like 2 mods (on different subreddits) heard lemmy = tankies and pushed people to raddle instead.
Expecting communities related to a certain topic to coalesce on a single server doesn’t seem like a good idea to me, but having some kind of community metadata would definitely be nice. As you said it’d be useful as a way to filtering out certain topics, and it might also be handy for community discovery.
Exactly.
I would like to see these categories in a cascaded list. For example, if there was a list for location-based communities, I could block “cities” and “countries” but leave and “continents” active.
This way I can still see news about “Europe”, but not the communities of languages I don’t speak.
Well, I just made hobbit.world and intend to only have Tolkien related communities there. So block away if that’s not your thing. However, the only way to block an instance is to defederate and that’s kind of harsh. Hopefully the feature of blocking communities by instance is added.
Eventually most places will support a “block domain” feature so if sports.lemmy for example keeps pushing out sports content and you don’t want to see it, you can block it on your end (without impacting everyone else on your server who may want to see it)
That seems like the best of both worlds.
There are multile !asklemmy and multiple !technology and multiple !worldnews and multiple !fediverse… the list goes on.
You really think they’re all just gonna create an instance together? They’re seperate because they WANT to be. That’s the fediverse for you. Not to mention that these instances would STILL have their own individual communities; which you would likely see across your feed at some point if you view “all” posts and not just local or subscribed. It’s easier for you to just block them and call it a day.
