I have blocked all the political or news-centered communities. That way they don't show up on the "All"-page.
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2024
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Many of the mobile apps have keyword filters. lemmy.world has the m.lemmy.world web frontend, which is Voyager, which also has them.
I use Thunder on my android. It has a keyword filter. I also view my subscriptions instead of all.
if you scroll All, you're going to see all.
Some instances, like programming.dev, hides political and porn communities by default, meaning you have to directly subscribe to see any content from those communities. So c/all isn't all for all instances.
what does that have to do with OP?
Just wanted to point out that
if you scroll All, you're going to see all.
Doesn't work the same way on Lemmy as on reddit. Some instances will filter out most politics (something OP complained about) from c/all, meaning scrolling c/all won't have you see all
Basically just switch to the feed that only shows you your subs.
Once in a while you can browse local or all and see if you find any new communities that you'd like to follow
Either make subscribed list or block subs and users
I default to my subscribed feed, which only shows the communities I'm interested in, and when I finish browsing that for the day I switch over to the All feed so I can find new communities to subscribe to and block communities to filter out the ones I'll never be interested in.
You can hide posts by keywords in some apps. I use that feature in voyager
So there are two ways of doing this... A positive selection and a negative selection.
I use an app called "Boost" and there are two feeds... Local and All.
Local shows me all the communities I have joined.
All shows me ALL the communities unless I block them.
Enter a community, go to Community Info, and you can join it or block it. Pretty simple.
Curate your Local feed by only joining the communities you want to see, or block the trash communities from the All feed and refresh.
There is also the option to block entire INSTANCES. There was one that was just bot reposts from reddit, yeah, nobody needs that. Not blocking them one by one, just blocked the entire instance.
The local feed is only for (all) communities on your instance. I think you meant to say "subscribed"
Sorry, yes, you're correct!
The easiest way would be subscribing to the communities you want and then using the subscribed feed instead of the all feed
Some frontends (mostly the apps) have filters you can use to filter content but the main frontend doesn't currently apart from blocking the communities
An alternate thing to do could be to use the local feed in the instance that primarily has the content you want. Isnt doable for all types of content since not everything has a topic based instance for it and would require having a new account if you want to interact but theres things such as mander.xyz for science, programming.dev for programming/hardware/etc. topics, etc.
The easiest way would be subscribing to the communities you want and then using the subscribed feed instead of the all feed
I am gonna read only until here...
Seriously guys, isn't that the way to use these sites!?
This is the way I used Reddit 99% of the time, so yeah, I missed a lot of drama... But that would be a perk for some...
Edit: lol I just scrolled a bit and found this.
Ngl I'm kinda surprised by how many people use the main feed, when I first joined lemmy I just looked up some communities that I was interested in and set my default feed to subscribed only, the only memes I see regularly are from an RPG meme community.
Yeah, I am a subscribed feed main. I want to see what I want, not wade through everything available to me. That may lead to me missing some stuff that may interest me, but so filters out a large portion of stuff I know I do not want to see.
I use the main feed as a way to broaden my horizons. Of course I block communities and use filters extensively as necessary. So it’s not too bad once it’s dialed in.
Lemmy is so early in its growth that I'm not sure why anyone would come here and not have at least a passing interest in All. It lets you see how we're doing in a collective sense and is going to be the best way to find new communities.
I'm fairly into politics, but even I'm sick of hearing about it all day. I still go into threads though to see if we're at least posting facts and complete stories, and I try to steer things back in a good direction if I see something.
This is the time period where we're setting the conduct for our instances. If we allow sloppy posts or misinformation when we're small, we'll either never get big or we'll turn into something we didn't want. I think that means I'm here for the community building moreso than the actual conduct. If all one wants is tech news, there's already well established sites giving out nothing but that.
Lemmy is a barren landscape of emptiness of your stray outside of All.
Not in my experience. I only browse by "subscribed".
You must be subscribed to memes and shitposts
I only browse by subscribed because I don't subscribe to communities with "memes" and "shitposts", if a community has too many of them I unsubscribe to them.
Depends how many subscriptions you have
Or how much time you spend on Lemmy. When I hit my pockets of ADD procrastination I run out of active content on All pretty quick.
Local can be OK depending on your instance.
It’s a fact, though, that Lemmy is way too small to just follow a bunch of niche communities (which I felt was the best way to use Reddit)
Yup, I use lemmy ( at least try ) like RSS client to create "my feed" but yes, lemmy, does its three cents to the output. I'll check your points out, thanks (y)