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How do you deal with communities that don't interest you? (lemmings.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, how do you deal with communities that don't interest you? I personally block them, because I don't like them popping up on my All feed, but at the same time I don't want to switch to Subscribed because a new interesting community might pop up.

What's your strategy?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I switch back between subscribed and all with blocks on communities. A medium ground with all, including blocks, or 'quietens' as well as blocks would help.

Some communities are spammy and I don't want them cluttering my feed constantly, but complete block seems excessive. An option to only see the best of their posts would be good. So perhaps they would be quietened to see a max number of top posts or have a ratio applied to their popularity in my feed.

Some communities I do want to block forever though. The problem is subscribed is very limited until the communities build out. All is too spammy and requires lots of curation. We need a middle ground.