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On Reddit, browsing r/All by new would show so much spam, it was really pointless if you just were looking for content. One relied on reddit's algorithm to show you new stuff you hadn't actively searched for. The nice thing about Kbin, and the threadiverse in general, is that you can browse m/All by New as see genuinely interesting posts.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use this to come across magazines or communities i might not have thought to search for and add those I find interesting. After scrolling a little bit I switch to the subscribed list. This works well for me at the moment.

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

Same! Have found several interesting magazine like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Totally agree! I never touched new on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It’s how I find interesting magazines and Lemmy communities. Browse new for a while with federation on and see what interesting things come past on the stream.

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

what's the difference? I mean is there a setting I need to change or is it by default on?

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

by /m/All you mean the front page, right? Couldn't find any magazine named "All"

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

Yeah for me all is just the homepage of https://kbin.social/ with federation ON

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

You can sort the posts by new

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used to browse r/all/rising and sometimes peeked at /new. It was made somewhat bearable because I used rif and filtered out subreddits like crazy.

I just checked my rif settings export. I had 906 subreddit filters.

(And one domain filter: battleforthenet.com.)

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

I'm afraid that's just because spammers, trolls and other bad agents haven't discovered this platform yet and/or there's not enough people here for spamming to be worth it. The current selection of users who were likely to join also probably has an effect. Once (if?) this grows and reaches more general population, I'd bet it will look similar to /r/all/new.

Edit: It's a kind of paradox. You want more users on the platform so that there's enough content and more niche communities can form but that inevitably makes the place less pleasant. Although this moment is still very, very far for kbin. I mean Reddit became absolutely humongous in the last several years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yea :) like a few times in new i saw stuff that seemed like they miiight be ads in disguise but it seems to happen a lot less than reddit (where new posts couldve been several reposts and bot nonsense.)

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

Yet to find interesting content.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Given the volume and breath of content going past in the federated feed, that may say more about you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well a lot of stuff posted on here seem tech related (or cat related lol) so i get if youre not into that maybe doesnt seem so interesting. But it can help if you look in magazine for your country/city maybe. Or for your interest. Or even something like cooking or news if you like news?

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