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.

rm_dash_r_star,
@rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee avatar

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.

Anticorp,

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.

Noodle07,

Yeah I just got on lemmy and the first thing I did was block a politic post haha

YoBuckStopsHere,
@YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world avatar

To each their own. I’ve found some one those communities to be the most interesting both in content and discussion.

jayemecee,

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!

Chickenstalker,

Sort by new. Convert to the New Religion. Browse as god intended us.

jayemecee,

Haha will definitely try that eventually

DaveNa,

Yes. Blocking communities is very helpful.

Bianca_0089, (edited )

My surprise that I’m allowed to simply have a “completely empty subscription feed” here:

I want to cry! That’s amazing! Every ‘online billboard//widget thingy’ that I’ve ever used in my life has never let me turn-off the infinitely regenerating news website posts and infinitely regenerating tabloid entries! And most never let me disable the default unremoveable weather widget!

To have a completely empty subscription feed with “no posts”… that’s sooo fascinating to meee!

VelvetStorm,

Ya my feed was 90% memes so I blocked those communities and its much better now

Maruki_Hurakami,

Same here. So much better now!

anon_water,
@anon_water@lemmy.ml avatar

Yep

Odusei,

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.

Zathras,

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.

dm_me_ur_cock,

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

Vaggumon,
@Vaggumon@lemmy.world avatar

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

sadreality,

Yeah but that's requires people complaining to do something tho...

Why should they bother when they can complain to us

Nugget_in_biscuit,

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

Black_Gulaman,
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No Curation, That’s what I like. the field is level when sorting to New, you can see everyone’s posts

Nugget_in_biscuit,

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.

coconutxyz,

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

phx,

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

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