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What is the corresponding of r/all in Lemmy? (self.nostupidquestions)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Zeth0s to c/nostupidquestions

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I am having trouble finding a pseudo-curated feed of posts in Lemmy. What is a good starting point, the "front page", as it is r/all for reddit?

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[–] mvu 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that's the rub if you're coming from a centralized -thing- and move to federated: nobody's doing any work for you (except, you know, hosting and developing).

There's no real incentive to "capture your engagement" since nobody's making money off of you. This was something I've seen a lot of new people on Mastodon struggling with -- without "the algorithm" to do the legwork, users are left to do a little bit of heavy lifting and curate their own feed.

(To be fair, /r/all used to be a hot mess on reddit as well before it was as big as it got)

Right now your best bet is to hit the front page of your Lemmy instance, click "ALL" (instead of local / subscribed) and filter by New. This will give you a real messy look at what communities are active, and let you start subscribing to to the communities that appeal to you.

[–] Zeth0s 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks :)

[–] miked 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Selecting All Instances and then Top Day will give you the highest upvotes for all federated instances for 24 hours. I used this to find and subscribe to communities i like.

BUT - Be aware that there is known bug in the current version of lemmy that causes an automatic refresh of new items.

edit- grammar

[–] MicroWave 5 points 1 year ago

This is what I do too

[–] Garblegork 2 points 1 year ago

This is my preferred method of scrolling as well. I did spend a large amount of timing blocking communities that I didn't want to engage in, but after a few days of blocking it has been pretty good.

[–] Donjuanme 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be very interesting (I'm brand new to "federation") if sub-sites that share a name could be aggregated, but who would be allowed to moderate it, and how would unaffiliated subs be disentangled? Maybe this could be an easily accessible user option, and to each their own collection of sub pages?

Also what about slightly different names with the same theme, tech and technology? I'm interested to see what comes of these questions.

[–] andobando 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been thinking about this.

I am thinking essentially the solution is the equivalent of multi reddits. In the UI, either from the user perspective, or the server admin perspective, you can setup communities that are just aggregations of different communities.

Then a user can choose to browse /c/cats which is actually just /c/cats from lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, etc as one feed.

[–] Donjuanme 1 points 1 year ago

I'm very curious what the viewer applications will look like for this site. I feel it will need to be very open source due to managing the larger number of user names one potentially has to make. It currently feels like there will be a lot of aggregation put on the user, and I personally look forward to the higher amount of customization.

When Reddit made it so everyone could have access to their full list of subscribed sub Reddits, rather than just premium users, it made the site a much more enjoyable experience. I hope Lemmy app developers take that improvement and run with it.

[–] MargotRobbie 4 points 1 year ago

The difference with Lemmy I feel is that you actually have to try to drive content to the communities you started to grow them, instead of having them heading straight for you just because of the name.

So you have to browse around to find the good stuff, the exploring before everything is settled is the fun part right now.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mentioned wanting a curated feed, and none of the responses so far addressed that part. One thing you can do is go through the community lists like Lemmy Explorer and subscribe to the communities you're interested in. Then instead of selecting All, you can use Subscribed. I did that and it seems to work reasonably well. I do also check All sometimes to see if there are any new communities with content I'm interested in.

[–] Zeth0s 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the suggestion

[–] BrerChicken 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First of all r/all was always awful, at least in the 11 years I was there.

It depends on your app, not you can view your subscribed groups, all of the groups on your instance, and then all of the groups on all of the instances. That last one is called "all." I'm using Jerboa.

[–] stankmut 1 points 1 year ago

The only way I managed to make r/all tolerable was by blocking half the stuff that hit it.

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

https://lemmy.directory tried something like that but it seems to be down right now.