Lemmy needs serverside hide features for posts and for communities or I’ll never find real interesting communities hiding on the 10th page of top feeds. This lack of functionality could cause the top feeds to stay trash permanently and drive away users. Especially when new apps are constantly appearing, client side hides are more or less useless as I switch between apps.
Reddit post hide features are fairly performant because they quietly expire after some period of time. They stay in your “hidden” list but actually will start showing in the results again if somehow that content is still visible. You can see this on super slow or abandoned subreddits if you hide every and come back a month later.
Reddit community blocking features have always sucked with the serverside limit of 100. Seems even more dire in Lemmy when the same shitposting communities spring up on different hosts
Subscribe to the communities you like, then switch to "Subscribed" view, just like on Reddit. The front page is what it is, an honest /r/all – on Reddit it was mostly porn, and after some retooling mostly low-effort meme subs. But that's exactly what "Subscribed" is there for!!
At least you're not advocating to harshly monitor/ban/disallow community creation, like some others already did, basically treating the whole instance like an uber-strict subreddit of its own.
Instead, it's easy: Subscribe. Then switch to Subscribed. If you want more communities, look at a list, or switch to All again.
The way I used Reddit was to do exactly this, but also with the extra step to heavily curate All and Poular by blocking communities that came up all the time that I had no plans to subscribe to. This turned my version of All and Popular into a feed of mostly communities I’ve never seen before and not just a wall of meme spam
The solution turned out to be that wefwef is missing the block community feature so I now have my exact workflow over on Memmy
"The way I used Reddit" a gentle reminder friendo that this is not reddit.
I see nothing wrong with taking good, useful features from Reddit and making them available. It won't make Lemmy Reddit, it just makes Lemmy better.
If you want reddit go back to reddit.