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.
So far I think only Connect for lemmy has user level instance blocking.
There’s a checkbox in your settings that will let you hide bot accounts. It isn’t perfect but it’s much better.
mainly for some of the more bot-driven instances like fanaticus.
I honestly think that account has to be a troll
Protip:
Go to the instance admins page and just go thru and block all 20-30 subs they mod.
Each one has its own bot
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.
Exactly this. For now while lemmy me new my default is All. In some months when things are more established I’ll stick with my Subscribed communities. Things are still new right now.
… 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.
That’s how I feel, as well. The key is not to get upset about it when it’s 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.
I usually just do local for a few different instances. I think all gets too flooded with shit I don’t want to see
Top 6 hour and 1 hour for Subscribed and Local is what I do. IMO, it works similar to hot and rising on Reddit.
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
Top for the past 6 or 12 hours is closer to the reddit front page feed we are accustomed to.
100% inject it into my veins (just kidding I’m straight edge)
It will be nice when we’re able to block entire instances by instance, not just users and communities
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.
It definitely works, as I’ve done it. Maybe there’s some kind of bug you hit.
NSFW instance would be nice to block entirely. Otherwise you see every odd fetish out there.
The other week I was looking to see if I could block that instance entirely. I don’t want to block all nsfw stuff cause I still would like to see non-porn nsfw posts, but having to block each porn community that pops up on all is annoying.
that’s precisely the instance i’m talking about
Account settings, block NSFW.
Sadly it doesn’t work on lemm.ee
It’s should be an upcoming feature. That, and community linking (consolidate between instances) should boost the for us all.
Connect for Lemmy can block instances
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.
That’s what I use different accounts for. One just for news, another for fun/stupid communities, one for professional interests. Not necessarily ideal but it works for now until we have better options.
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.
You filter them by blocking them.
Why say filter then? Very misleading.
I have no idea why they chose that word.
there are many words in english, blocking / filtering, we can use anything we want, it depends on the context. it simply is what language is, you don’t need exceptional critical thinking capabilities to get what OP is saying, just look at the context.
Use your “subscribed” feed. Sort by hot or new.
So like Reddit?
Yes, that is why they spent no time explaining how to do it.
peaople really need to brush up on their comprehension and understanding meaning through context. sigh…
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
The lack of curation is both a blessing and a curse for our community. It’s going to keep our feeds less engaging, which will limit our size. On the other hand, it’s going to keep our feeds less engaging, which will keep us engaging with our real lives more.
Ya my feed was 90% memes so I blocked those communities and its much better now
Same here. So much better now!
Yeah I use the block button liberally. It just gets tiring playing whack-a-mole.
But if I actually set things up the way I want, how can I complain about things? /s
My surprise that I’m allowed to simply have a “completely empty subscription feed” here:
I want to cry! That’s amazing! Every ‘online billboard//widget thingy’ that I’ve ever used in my life has never let me turn-off the infinitely regenerating news website posts and infinitely regenerating tabloid entries! And most never let me disable the default unremoveable weather widget!
To have a completely empty subscription feed with “no posts”… that’s sooo fascinating to meee!
Hopefully hot sort can be fixed soon, seeing post years ago is weird
I have a pretty long block list. Lemmy shows me exactly what I want 😉
Yeah, you can create the experience you want to have, but there should be a “porn” category separate from “nsfw” to help users filter out the porn. It would be one thing if I saw a lot of posts about studs with big erect penises. I mean, sure, spam me with that. I love my hung porno studs. But it’s all things not my style. Boobs this and tits that. No thanks. More hetero women should get into computer science just so we have a nice balance of porn. It’s a little too catered to the white male computer dorks.
Yes. Blocking communities is very helpful.
Yep
What I realized the other day is that it’s much easier to gain control of your feed if you stick to local. Staying on local means you only need to contend with a sub one time. Being on global means you’re probably going to need to block the same sub 10 times before it goes away, since there’s likely multiple politics subs on each instance.
