I browse all and block communties I have no interest in.
Bye bye Star Trek memes and may the force live long and prosper.
Bodongs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m an example of a filthy casual reddit user who is really struggling to find value in lemmy. Finding an instance where local is of value is difficult, world may as well be “everything”, and “everything” is a nightmarish hodgepodge of memes for teenagers, furry porn, really niche technical discussions, and star Trek memes. I never stay in the app longer than a few minutes and I feel like I spend more time blocking weird porn communities than I do reading interesting articles.
The other major issue is having to sort through the exact same article 60 times because people cross post not only to local communities but then also the same communities are duplicated on every instance. I’m probably going to abandon this soon unless I can find some kind of curated community list to subscribe to or something.
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
jeffhykin@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Did you hide all NSFW posts and still get that problem?
Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 year ago
I don’t really get all the “‘all’ is bad” discussion. Isn’t that what the “subscribed” feed is for? Just sub to the communities that interest you and browse from there.
Bodongs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The big difference is 1. Finding communities is not easy. Can you name every one of your interests off the top of your head? 2. Just punching in communities from reddit 1 for 1 doesn’t work. 3. Content and user base. There is no discussions for my favorite podcasts here and if there are where do I find them.
It took me a decade to build out a decent sub list on Reddit and I still stumble upon new interests now and again. I don’t know how to “stumble upon” decent communities on Lemmy and I’m sick of wading through cartoon horse cocks.
Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 year ago
If you have a decent list from Reddit you can use sub.rehab to map Reddit to Lemmy / Kbin
If you just want to look for communities you can use browse.feddit.de
Takes some time to get everything set up but I honestly prefer having only stuff that interests me in my feed + no porn randomly popping up
Bodongs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Appreciate the leads here!
can@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
They still call it squabbles on that site lol
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah I think that respondent is being defensive and really doesn’t get the point.
Discovery sucks. Its really bad and its hurting the ability of lemmy to be a viable alternative.
Brekky@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Option number 2 worked pretty well for me, porting from Reddit. Not perfect but then neither was reddit.
theragu40@lemmy.world 1 year ago
One thing I don’t like about the approach of blocking things is that the frontpage of reddit still allowed some level of discovery. If something in a niche community got hot enough it would break into my feed even though I didn’t subscribe to that community. It was a cool way to expand my content on an occasional basis.
If I’m going to only view my subscribed list on lemmy then I have to also manually go out and intentionally discover new communities. That’s hard, because some of my favorite small reddit communities were ones I never would have thought to search for.
Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 year ago
That got me very confused as I never had that happening on my Reddit feed. I had to go back to Reddit to notice that I actually had that setting disabled.
Anyway, I don’t think something like that would really work on Lemmy. Reddit has his algorithm that devours your privacy, chews on your data and spits out results that may or may not interests you. Lemmy is much more simple than that. IIRC it’s “algorithm” is little more than a logarithmic curve and the (very based) devs are committed to user privacy, so your data will never get analyzed, not even to sugar coat your feed. For me it’s a feature, though I get that not everyone might feel that way.
Spzi@lemm.ee 1 year ago
All credit to the devs, but Lemmy isn’t great on privacy. Your votes are technically public, and there is no way to guarantee what you delete or edit is actually deleted and edited. You’re right the data is not used to customize your feed, but not because it’s private. It isn’t.
maltasoron@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Same for me, but I never had trouble finding new content. Discovering subreddits (and communities) through word-of-mouth worked perfectly fine.
Also, unlike Reddit, Lemmy has a community browser.
MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I mean, I use my LW account for local and lemm.ee for all (because it can see more posts). They are just… different, although I am getting pretty annoyed at the mass of r/politics level politcal discourse on the LW local feed.
Bodongs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What do you mean “it can see more posts”? I thought the point of world was that it was the general everything respiratory.
Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 year ago
lemmy.world has been defederated and has defederated some pretty large instances. On the othe hand lemm.ee is probably the instance with one of the most open fed lists
MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Off the top of my head, LW accounts can’t see posts from beehaw, hexbear, or piracy communities on db0 due to defed/blocks.