A good local feed on lemmy and/or mastodon is worth its weight in gold.
Comment on Why is the default setting for the startpage's feed "Local" and not "All"
SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I think that’s precisely what it intends to do. There’s interest-specific or country-specific instances that are meant to be your “home”. Lemmy.world is a bad example of it because it’s non-specific and sign ups were open for a long time.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
blue_berry@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Right, but for me, choosing an instance is a matter of moderation, maybe tech-stack/performance and data privacy (maybe some other stuff too) but not the content hosted ON the instance. I mean, thats the whole idea of the fediverse. You choose the social network structure that you like and travel the fediverse with that. I don’t like this overly tribel-thinking.
SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
So set your landing page to “subscribed” rather than “local” on whatever app you use. Or take it up with the admin or the lemmy.word community if it causes you a problem. I can’t see how it can put you out that much, or cause “overly tribal thinking” tbh.
blue_berry@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It doesn’t. I just think it encourages bad network dynamics. But you are right, its only a minor issue
Treevan@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Yep, I’m where I am, subscribed to zero communities but I can check out what’s happening nationally using Local. If the instance got massive, that would change but it’s fine as it is.
I guess the science instances, the art instances, the solarpunk instance, or even porn instances etc use Local heavily.