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Lemmy is better if you stick to the subscribed feed (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 7 hours ago by [email protected] to c/unpopularopinion

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Most of the time, I read the “subscribed” feed, sorted by scaled. Maybe once a week or once a month I check what’s in the “all” feed, sorted by top of the week or something like that.

My opinion is, that this is the better way to see the stuff I care about, and it allows me to ignore all the stuff I don’t care about. I’ve seen many people say that you should read the “all” feed, but I just don’t seem much value in that. There are a few people who agree with me, but we appear to be a minority here, hence the unpopular part of this opinion.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

As you suggested, there’s no other way. I’ve spent enough time browsing all to figure out that I don’t care about 99% of what the hive mind appears to love with a burning passion.

Very rarely I find something worth reading on all, and that’s why I visit that place about once a month. It’s not a completely useless place, but I find very little utility in it.

[–] kitnaht 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I browse it all the time and interact with lots of communities, but the problem is that I turn into an "outside voice" that has more equal-handed views on things, and as soon as I interact with one of these communities that are moving as a unit in lock-step with one another, I upset them and they start following me around places and harassing me.

So yeah. Lemmy is quite...uh...special in that regard.

But hey, at least I don't get banned from 120 communities because I replied to someone once somewhere in some random thread.

You're probably healthier not interacting with /all but at the same time, you turn into one of those people who never even so much as sees an opinion counter to your own.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

It’s true that I enjoy the company of likeminded people, who doesn’t. However, I also speak my mind at places where these thoughts are not necessarily understood or supported. I take risks that may materialize as a torrent of downvotes. Some of those are also 100% justified, because some of my comments can be really dumb. Occasionally, my comment ends up being 50/50 controversial, and sometimes I get downvoted to oblivion.