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.

downpunxx,
@downpunxx@kbin.social avatar

It will be nice when we're able to block entire instances by instance, not just users and communities

PlasmaDistortion,

NSFW instance would be nice to block entirely. Otherwise you see every odd fetish out there.

downpunxx,
@downpunxx@kbin.social avatar

that's precisely the instance i'm talking about

PaulDevonUK,
@PaulDevonUK@lemmy.world avatar

Account settings, block NSFW.

PlasmaDistortion,

Sadly it doesn’t work on lemm.ee

cola_nut,

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.

genoxidedev1,
@genoxidedev1@kbin.social avatar

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

insomniac_lemon,
@insomniac_lemon@kbin.social avatar

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.

tal,
@tal@kbin.social avatar

It definitely works, as I've done it. Maybe there's some kind of bug you hit.

Black_Gulaman,
@Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Connect for Lemmy can block instances

100thCatMarch,
100thCatMarch avatar

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

nocturne213,

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.

Synchrome,
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    nocturne213,

    Why say filter then? Very misleading.

    Black_Gulaman,
    @Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    there are many words in english, blocking / filtering, we can use anything we want, it depends on the context. it simply is what language is, you don’t need exceptional critical thinking capabilities to get what OP is saying, just look at the context.

    czech,
    @czech@no.faux.moe avatar

    Use your "subscribed" feed. Sort by hot or new.

    nocturne213,

    So like Reddit?

    czech,
    @czech@no.faux.moe avatar

    Yes, that is why they spent no time explaining how to do it.

    Black_Gulaman,
    @Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    peaople really need to brush up on their comprehension and understanding meaning through context. sigh…

    sunaurus,
    @sunaurus@lemm.ee avatar

    Subscribed feed + hot sort is the best way to experience Lemmy, I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about this 😅

    ElectroVagrant,

    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.

    SJ0,

    There’s a checkbox in your settings that will let you hide bot accounts. It isn’t perfect but it’s much better.

    can,

    So far I think only Connect for lemmy has user level instance blocking.

    givesomefucks,

    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

    deeroh,
    @deeroh@lemdro.id avatar

    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

    spacedancer,

    Top for the past 6 or 12 hours is closer to the reddit front page feed we are accustomed to.

    little_cow,

    100% inject it into my veins (just kidding I’m straight edge)

    TWeaK,

    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.

    ShakeThatYam,
    @ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world avatar

    If people are on one of the larger instances they are probably better off trying Local over All.

    TWeaK,

    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.

    ShakeThatYam,
    @ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world avatar

    I usually just do local for a few different instances. I think all gets too flooded with shit I don’t want to see

    Sir_Kevin,
    @Sir_Kevin@discuss.online avatar

    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.

    jayemecee,

    … 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.

    TWeaK,

    That’s how I feel, as well. The key is not to get upset about it when it’s not.

    ShakeThatYam,
    @ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world avatar

    Top 6 hour and 1 hour for Subscribed and Local is what I do. IMO, it works similar to hot and rising on Reddit.

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