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Does anyone else feel the general lemmy instances are noise? (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I quite value content from targetted instances, but most of the "general" instances seem to be memes, posts on boosting lemmy, memes, reddit, memes bot posts, memes, reddit, memes, discussion on lemmy mobile applications, memes reddit, memes, and people talking about how the lemmy changed their lives oh and memes.

I would browse hot on reddit as a way to see things outside my subscribed bubble but I have given up. The signal to noise ratio is terrible.

Is anyone else experiencing this? How are you discovering magazines?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Umm, you can turn off federation and get a local feed with a single click/tap. On desktop, the switch is on the home page at the top of the right hand column. It looks like 3 dots connected in a triangle with curved lines.

On mobile I guess it is at the bottom.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

They just have to rename/move the option to be more clear. For all visual issues Lemmy's UI has, at least their local only filter mode is pretty clear to see and understand. Kbin's "FEDERATION ON OR OFF" is so open to interpretation I thought for a while if it was a toggle so that things I posted only stayed local and didn't federate

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

Ah thanks for the tip. That's not the same as what I was wanting, but it's closer!