Subscribed feed + hot sort is the best way to experience Lemmy, I'm surprised more people aren't talking about this π
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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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.
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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.
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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 donβt 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
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 donβt 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 whatβs 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 βfilterβ content? You spend a lot of time talking about doing something and no time explaining how to do it.
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 thatβs OK
No Curation, That's what I like. the field is level when sorting to New, you can see everyone's posts
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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
Hopefully hot sort can be fixed soon, seeing post years ago is weird
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.
I have a pretty long block list. Lemmy shows me exactly what I want π
You can, but it depends on how you're interfacing. Most clients allow subscription but not all allow ignoring subs
Lemmy is working well for me with my front page set to "Subscribed" and "Top Day". Of course you have to subscribe to communities. I went to lemmyverse.net and sorted by the biggest then went through the list picking all the ones of interest. I've got about forty communities and I get a healthy front page that keeps me occupied. I usually run out of time before content.
I don't see how "All" or "Local" would work as well. If you're on a smaller instance you won't get much action with "Local". With "All" you get inundated with stuff that's not of interest. Curating the All feed is going to be a bit tedious as you have to block all the communities you don't want to see. I feel using the inverse logic of viewing only communities you select is quicker and easier.
Yep
Yes. Blocking communities is very helpful.
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