I've just seen a lot of post recently complaining what they see on their front pages such as news, politics, endless memes, etc. But you do know if any of those subs bother you or seem excessive, you can filter the subs so that they don't appear on your front page anymore. Filter memes and 196, and about 70 percent of the memes disappear. Filter world news and news, and bam, most of the news is gone. Don't like politics? Me neither. Just filter politics and any other political subs and bam problem solved.
And let's say you don't want to spend an afternoon filtering subs you don't want to see, and just want to see more games, hobbies, sports, etc. First sub to the communities you want to follow, then go to your settings. You can make it to where lemmy/kbin shows you your subs by default rather than what's popular. Now you have an experience that is totally yours.
And let's say you are not seeing the content you want to see regularly. The best way to ecourage diversity is to post yourself. Post frequently in the communities you want to grow. That's what the people in the subs that annoy you did to start with. Almost all popular communities have at least one power user who regularly and frequently posts. Hell if you don't want to block a community but want to see less from them, it's not hard to find these power users and filter their content.
TLDR: Lemmy/kbin are extremely customizable. You can create the experience you want to have.
Subscribed feed + hot sort is the best way to experience Lemmy, I'm surprised more people aren't talking about this 😅
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.
There's a checkbox in your settings that will let you hide bot accounts. It isn't perfect but it's much better.
I honestly think that account has to be a troll
Protip:
Go to the instance admins page and just go thru and block all 20-30 subs they mod.
Each one has its own bot
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.
100% inject it into my veins (just kidding I'm straight edge)
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.