One of the most annoying parts about That Place, and also Lemmy, is curating your feed by blocking communities you have no interest in seeing.
I am not a sports person, so I need to block each sports team manually when I see it, and also each individual sport. It would be so much better if I could just block an instance called “Lemmy.sports”.
I’m glad Lemmy.nsfw is the default porn instance, I think we need to see more of this.
I know it’s too late to change at this point, but I think a feature to catagorise different communities would be nice, so I could block “sports” if I wanted to.
Alternatively, maybe down the line see a feature to import a community to a new instance without users having to migrate manually.
This is what I did with some communities, I created my own instance to group them together
I think as UIs get better you will be able to handle that on front end. Like even have curated lists of specific subscriptions.
It would be so much better if I could just block an instance called “Lemmy.sports”.
Ironically, I’m part of a sports-only instance. I’m not sure if you can block an instance as a user, but hopefully one day we can emerge as a predominant sports instance and you can just block us, thereby eliminating most sports-related posts from your feed. Good luck with this issue, and sorry in advance for all the individual sport/team posts you will see from us in the future.
I appreciate this lol. Thank you for making my wildest dreams come true. Good luck!
I’m not sure if you can block an instance as a user
Damn, it must be the Mandela Effect. My previous world-line had instance blocking.
Kbin has instance blocking. Maybe you used a kbin-based instance in that universe?
I think this problem could be partly solved with the option to curate your own feeds. Currently I am using Connect for Lemmy, and I see 3 feeds, Subscribed, Local, and All. It would be good to be able to create a new feed and populate it with content from specific communities.
And going even further, I should be able to make my feed public, so other people can subscribe to my custom feed too.
Maybe this is already an option with some of the other Lemmy apps?
Eventually most places will support a “block domain” feature so if sports.lemmy for example keeps pushing out sports content and you don’t want to see it, you can block it on your end (without impacting everyone else on your server who may want to see it)
That seems like the best of both worlds.
Well, I just made hobbit.world and intend to only have Tolkien related communities there. So block away if that’s not your thing. However, the only way to block an instance is to defederate and that’s kind of harsh. Hopefully the feature of blocking communities by instance is added.
I complained about something similar: https://lemmy.world/post/1233576
Huh… so personally I subscribe to communities that I actually do want to see, and then just use my subscribed feed.
I think that seems a lot easier.
That’s how I used reddit. But kbin is still too inactive for that still (for the communities I primarily engaged with). At least I get a few dozen threads in a day now instead of a couple of thread in a day on my sub list like I did a few weeks ago (mostly from more activity, but also subscribed to some more communities). Hope it’ll get to the point where I rarely use all soon though.
You gotta dig through our stuff too. I’m on lemmy.world, signed up to, it sounds like, as many kbin mags as you are. But I’ve got 10x that much coming from lemmy.
You should be able to sub to stuff from both.
I’m subbed to 34 community, majority aren’t on kbin (they’re on various lemmy instances). Think part of the problem is a lot of the communities I regulared on reddit had a lot of people go to raddle instead of fediverse because like 2 mods (on different subreddits) heard lemmy = tankies and pushed people to raddle instead.
I like that idea, but at the moment, Lemmy needs engagement with up-and-coming communities, so I want to boost content I think is good, not just from communities I’m explicitly interested in.
Also it’s a good way to find new communities.
Sensible. Definitely going to come with consequences though, I do not think it was intended to be used that way. Should work though, with a whole lot of hassle.
Good luck.
It surprises me how many people apparently just dive right into to “All” feed. There’s waaaaayyy too much stuff I really don’t care about getting blasted into my eye-holes doing that.
It’s even more surprising when people claim they view the All feed on Mastodon. I mean… a good chunk of that is just bots barfing data that’s not even remotely related to me.
To me, “All” isn’t much better than letting The Algorithm pick what I read on Twitter/Reddit/Facebook/etc. Gross.
Yeah, all is something I check, not something I scroll.
I use All to explore.
I start with subscribed, until everything on my feed starts to look familiar. Then switch to Local, which works well to find new communities because my instance is somewhat topical. And then if I run out of content, I move on to All to see what else is out there.
I’m not really scrolling All for content, I’m more on the lookout for interesting communities.
I flip back and forth. Middle because I’m still building up my communities so I need to see everything to see what I care about.
Expecting communities related to a certain topic to coalesce on a single server doesn’t seem like a good idea to me, but having some kind of community metadata would definitely be nice. As you said it’d be useful as a way to filtering out certain topics, and it might also be handy for community discovery.
Not coalesce. But could there be a way communites could create federated communities?
Exactly.
I would like to see these categories in a cascaded list. For example, if there was a list for location-based communities, I could block “cities” and “countries” but leave and “continents” active.
This way I can still see news about “Europe”, but not the communities of languages I don’t speak.
There are multile !asklemmy and multiple !technology and multiple !worldnews and multiple !fediverse… the list goes on.
You really think they’re all just gonna create an instance together? They’re seperate because they WANT to be. That’s the fediverse for you. Not to mention that these instances would STILL have their own individual communities; which you would likely see across your feed at some point if you view “all” posts and not just local or subscribed. It’s easier for you to just block them and call it a day.
StarTrek.website is doing that, it currently has three Star Trek communities.
There is programming.dev instance for programming-related stuff, but people are still creating duplicate communities on other instances, so dedicated lemmy.sports won’t solve the problem.
The problem with this is where do you draw the lines and how do you enforce it? For example I mod a community for a specific sports league. Should there be an instance for the one league with communities for each of the teams? Maybe an instance for the sport in general but then what if you have the same team names in different leagues. Or the same league name in different countries? What about if we wanted to group team communities under a geographic instances instead of by league or by sport?
Could just be a best practice type thing. If even like 20% of people strongly believed in such, that would probably be enough to make the communities formed on a relevant instance become the dominant/main community. Would be up to communities to decide how the want to divide things via organic processes.
Exactly. If I want to see Australian porn, I’m not going to the aussie.zone instance.
Why is mentioning Reddit here becoming like saying Voldemorts name?
If you say Reddit 5 times in a mirror a snoo comes and locks your brain behind an overpriced API.
Same super weird thing people on Mastodon do with “bird site.”
I don’t. There is a community I subbed to that has absolutely nothing to do with American politics. The mod of that community keeps posting bs about American politics to that community under the guise of “they used a computer to post whatever so it belongs in this community about technology”.
This is on one of the bigger sites and bigger instances. I ended up blocking that community from my personal instance because it was being inundated with a bunch of crap having nothing to do with technology, but certainly had an agenda.
If that was the only community that (supposedly) was about technology, I’d have to find a bunch of other, niche communities to cover what that one does (or should).
