1y ago

Ya'll do realize you can customize what you can/can't see on kbin/lemmy, and your experience is about about how you make it right?

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.

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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.
  
  mainly for some of the more bot-driven instances like fanaticus.
  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.
  
  If people are on one of the larger instances they are probably better off trying Local over All.
- 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.

It will be nice when we're able to block entire instances by instance, not just users and communities
- It's possible on kbin if you go to kbin.social/d/instancename and then block it like you'd block a user or community
  
  I tried that for a while and it didn't seem to work, I was seeing threads from a blocked instance even on the list view. Oddly, there was one thread I saw where all of the comments were hidden because of this.
  Though there isn't a good way to see if anything is blocked as it should be (including with the language setting) but it's obvious when something makes it through.
- NSFW instance would be nice to block entirely. Otherwise you see every odd fetish out there.
  
  The other week I was looking to see if I could block that instance entirely. I don’t want to block all nsfw stuff cause I still would like to see non-porn nsfw posts, but having to block each porn community that pops up on all is annoying.
  
  Account settings, block NSFW.
  
  that's precisely the instance i'm talking about
- It's should be an upcoming feature. That, and community linking (consolidate between instances) should boost the for us all.
- Connect for Lemmy can block instances

I still want better content sorting options, though. I don’t want to have to block a subset of content just so that I can see a different subset. Like sometimes I want a meme, sometimes I want to see what’s going on in the world. There are dozens of communities for each of those.
- That's what I use different accounts for. One just for news, another for fun/stupid communities, one for professional interests. Not necessarily ideal but it works for now until we have better options.

Other than blocking those communities, how does one “filter” content? You spend a lot of time talking about doing something and no time explaining how to do it.
- Use your "subscribed" feed. Sort by hot or new.
  
  So like Reddit?

Another thing worth noting is there is no algorithm here that is finding the posts that will suck you in for hours and hours. And that’s OK
- No Curation, That's what I like. the field is level when sorting to New, you can see everyone's posts
  
  The lack of curation is both a blessing and a curse for our community. It’s going to keep our feeds less engaging, which will limit our size. On the other hand, it’s going to keep our feeds less engaging, which will keep us engaging with our real lives more.

Ya my feed was 90% memes so I blocked those communities and its much better now
- Same here. So much better now!

Yeah I use the block button liberally. It just gets tiring playing whack-a-mole.

But if I actually set things up the way I want, how can I complain about things? /s

Hopefully hot sort can be fixed soon, seeing post years ago is weird

What I realized the other day is that it's much easier to gain control of your feed if you stick to local. Staying on local means you only need to contend with a sub one time. Being on global means you're probably going to need to block the same sub 10 times before it goes away, since there's likely multiple politics subs on each instance.

I have a pretty long block list. Lemmy shows me exactly what I want 😉

You can, but it depends on how you're interfacing. Most clients allow subscription but not all allow ignoring subs

Yeah I just got on lemmy and the first thing I did was block a politic post haha
- To each their own. I've found some one those communities to be the most interesting both in content and discussion.

Yes. Blocking communities is very helpful.

Lemmy is working well for me with my front page set to "Subscribed" and "Top Day". Of course you have to subscribe to communities. I went to lemmyverse.net and sorted by the biggest then went through the list picking all the ones of interest. I've got about forty communities and I get a healthy front page that keeps me occupied. I usually run out of time before content.
I don't see how "All" or "Local" would work as well. If you're on a smaller instance you won't get much action with "Local". With "All" you get inundated with stuff that's not of interest. Curating the All feed is going to be a bit tedious as you have to block all the communities you don't want to see. I feel using the inverse logic of viewing only communities you select is quicker and easier.

Yea, I've been using lemmy for the opposite. I want to have contact with every thing that is gaining attention. That way I will not be confined to my own bubble of interest and will be able to have contact with previous unknown stuff. Also the random porn during the day kind of feels nice. Scroll, see an ass, nice, scroll, new Lego set (don't deal with Lego for more than 20years) coming out, cool, scroll, F1 random news (I don't watch) means more knowledge.
Ive been looking for reddit alternatives exactly to not have the catered experience I have there. So lemmy /all /hot works great for me!
- Sort by new. Convert to the New Religion. Browse as god intended us.
  
  Haha will definitely try that eventually

Yeah but that's requires people complaining to do something tho...
Why should they bother when they can complain to us

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