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What is mental for me is that people browse the ALL feed and then complain about what it shows... I feel crazy only browsing my subbed communities all the time lol.
What's crazy to me is that I browse all and have very little blocked and I don't see the huge amounts of whatever the posts are complaining about (except if the complaint is about US politics). Rarely see more than 1 or 2 anime related posts in about 2 communities. Almost never see porn of any kind; let alone furry stuff and I'm on an instance meant for it.
Makes me wonder if they're just getting a bug that some apps have where it just keeps repeating the same 5 posts as you scroll instead of correctly updating. That was the biggest issue I had with Connect and Liftoff.
I'm the same. I browse All and don't remember the last time I saw any anime communities. I see porn occasionally, but it doesn't bother me. When I find a community I like, I subscribe to it. If it's a community I don't like, I'll block it. Once Lemmy grows more, I'll probably just switch over to my subscribed feed.
I ran across a bunch of anime and weird fucking sexual anime pics until blocking. Not a big enough deal to make a thread but wanted to share that it does happen and my browsing/subs are mostly tech/networking, politics and formula1
Hmm yeah, definitely complainers should expand in what their setup is.
yeah, it doesn't make sense to complain, but browsing ALL and blocking what you never wanna see again leaves you with lots of neat stuff you wouldn't have found sticking to your subscribed communities.
however, i wish lemmy had categories/tags for communities, so people could block or specificly browse everything anime or everything sports etc. it would be quite helpful.
Oh yeah, I can totally dig that, I had the trending communities at my subbed communities though, although I don't see it popping up as often as it used to.
I like Summit for Lemmy a lot because it let me create multi communities, so far I have one for gaming, one for retrogaming and other for handheld gaming, sadly Lemmy ain't reddit yet (only the first two are fairly active).
This is what Im doing for now, also trying to subscribe to a bunch of stuff.
But Im newbhear and still browse reddit some as I figure all this out.
Now if only my favorite twitter followers would switch to mastadon...
Welcome here!
Tickle them until they agree to switch to Mastodon! Mwa ha ha ha!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Lemmy needs customized feeds. You create a feed, You call it "Nintendo". Then you create another catagory, "subscribed". Then you open the subscribed catagory, and uncheck all the communities you're subscribed to that relate to Nintendo.
Then you open Nintendo, and uncheck all, then recheck all communities that DO relate to Nintendo.
Now, if Nintendo has their direct, and it's 11am because Japan isn't in the same time zone as America, so you're at work......you can browse "Subscribed" without being spoiled on the direct. Then, AFTER you get home, and watch the direct, you can browse by Subscribed + Nintendo, and you'll see all your communities. Or browese by Nintendo, and ONLY see Nintendo communities that you're subscribed to.
Now do that for every catagory you subscribe to.
You could browse by Nintendo + Pro Wrestling. Now you're seeing a custom feed of JUST Nintendo related communities, and JUST Pro Wrestling communities mixed together in one feed. But you wouldn't see your news communties, or your photography communities, or your porn communities.
But if you browse by all, you should have 2 options, All-All, and All-Local. Which should both be self explainitory. But browsing by All, you shouldn't get the right to complain that somethng exists. You can block it, and never see it again, but that doesn't mean someone else won't make a similiar community, and you can't complain. Things exist. Deal with it.
But we do need some more elaborate subscribe based feeds.
Multi communities are going to arrive thanks to a recent funding: https://lemmy.world/post/19692354?scrollToComments=true
This is great news! I hadn't seen that. Thanks for sharing!
All is how I browsed reddit, so it's how I browse Lemmy too. Like others have said, it allows you to find new communities, and is a pleasant experience once you filter out all the trouble communities and instances.
And TBF, Lemmy doesn't have default communities and I'm too lazy/ADHD to subscribe to any of them.
That is fair, browsing my subbed subreddits for more than 10 years was my way to go for Reddit (Reddit was my replacement for Feedly, basically, so I am used to curating my stuff).
Maybe that is why, aside from the APIcalypse I don't have a grudge against Reddit, and I missed some huge drama shit and toxic bs that you'd find in r/All (spam, bots and reposts too).
If you want drama, !fediverselore@lemmy.ca and !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com have some
LMAO, no thanks, but I appreciate you sharing with me those communities (I didn't know them).
How few interests do you have and how active are the communities? If I did just my subbed communities all the time it would be 2 day old politics and comedy subs with last post 2+ weeks ago.
I guess maybe you don't browse much or you've got a much more active set of core subs.
(Maybe some of that unavoidable anime and femboy content IDK)
I follow more than 800 communities, I never finish up my backlog feed 🤣 (but I do see a lot of repeated content for sure).
I've got maybe 50? But you can't get new ones without browsing "All" or searching for specific stuff. If you don't know what you're looking for "All" is the only way to find new communities.
Also !newcommunities@lemmy.world
I might try it more often, usually it is just a spam of memes for me, and for that I use other apps 😅
Why do you want to browse stuff that you have zero interest in? I imagine it to be a massive waste of time.
I'd prefer to view only the communities I've subbed to and see that there is no new contributions than look at stuff I have no interest in because I can turn off Lemmy and do something else with my day.
How do you know what new things you have no interest in? I block the stuff I don't like, I sub what I definitely do like (and occasionally browse it), and the rest I am happy to watch pass by and give up- or downvotes accordingly.
This is like asking "why would you go to a new website when you already know what you like?" Or "why would you go to a new place to look for friends or dates when you know you like people at XXX place?".
Frankly, sorry, this perspective of "anything I haven't subbed I obviously don't like" is pretty fuckin stupid. Don't feel bad though, you aren't alone thinking it.
"Frankly, sorry, this perspective of "anything I haven't subbed I obviously don't like" is pretty fuckin stupid. Don't feel bad though, you aren't alone thinking it."
Likewise, I think it's really stupid to be looking at content you have zero interest in. And likewise, don't feel bad though, you aren't alone.
Thanks for the belittling tone of your statement there 😉. You just have a different point of view.
How can you waste so much time looking at content that you have zero interest in? Don't you have stuff to actually do in life, or are you one of these people that get bored because you've got nothing to do?
I'm a person that never gets bored. I always have something I want to do. I don't have time to be doing things that aren't necessary to survive and things I don't enjoy.
I know who I am, and what I like. My interests are quite broad and I know what I don't want to see. I prefer to white list my interests on Lemmy than black list the things I have zero interest in. Even thought my interests are quite broad, white listing is significantly shorter. In an infinite number of interests, my 1000 interests are significantly shorter than infinity-1000.
Edit: When I gain a new interest, which is usually a sub interest of another interest I have then I'll look for the community on Lemmy/Reddit/other forums.
When I first started Reddit many years ago I learnt that all is usually full of rage bait content. I avoid rage bait as much as possible. I guestimate that all on Lemmy is exactly the same since most Lemmy users were/are Reddit users.
Live your best life yo, and have fun doing you. It would be cool to be young and know everything again.
You don't engage with new communities, neat. I like to keep an eye open, because out of infinity - 1000, there are still infinite communities I MIGHT like. Or even infinite - 2000 I don't like too. Look at all the math I can do. Here's an emoji 😍. Shut up, dude. Tell all your friends how well you know yourself, your perspective is still fucking stupid.
Belittled because, here on the net, you are little. Just like everyone else.
Why are you so angry? Do you want to talk about it?
I like browsing all / scaled to find new community 🫠
Well, that is nice the trending communities community used to do that for me though.
Isn't this instant dependent though?
Wdym? I am pretty sure it shows stuff from diverse instances.
!trendingcommunities@feddit.nl not the "trending" zone on the right
Also !newcommunities@lemmy.world
No, the majority probably does as you do
I'd suppose that, but so far all people that have replied to me say otherwise 😅