Comment on Instance Protectionism in the Threadiverse happens because of the Prisoner’s Dilemma (protecting one's own instance is currently more sensible than increasing overall discussion quality)

cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• harmonea@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I almost never used all on reddit.

  On the fediverse, I use it every day. There isn't enough content in my subscribed feed, so I check the "good stuff" first and then pop over to see what's interesting elsewhere.

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• Unaware7013@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Using m/all is how i find a lot of the content I like. There's a lot of magazine blocking to get rid of the trash I don't want, and that allows me to get a moderately different feed than my main subscription page.

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  • machinin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Interesting, I agree with OP in that I never cared for browsing Reddit’s All, except for rare occasions. But your post made me think about the possibility of setting up multiple subscription lists:

    1. Subscribed
    2. All with some blocks
    3. All

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• noride@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I kinda disagree, /r/all was amazing way back before they started fuckin with it. That was the best way to discover new communities once upon a time.

  But I do admit the firehouse approach isn’t for those looking for a refreshing glass of water.

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• Spzi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ll never really understand why people want anything but a subscribed feed.

  You got lots of answers in favor of All, so here’s my contribution for Local: It makes sense for themed instances. Examples:

  • mander.xyz to see science things
  • startrek.website to see star trek things

  The Local feeds of these instances basically act as a merged view of all their individual communities. Which is a frequently requested feature in another context.

  Personally, I almost exclusively use Subscribed (since I’m also not interested in themed instances), but there are reasons for All and Local.

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• scytale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s partly FOMO. The feeling that even with extensive subscriptions, there might be interesting content that the user would miss because they aren’t subscribed. That and some users just want to discover new stuff that they might not otherwise know they were interested in just because they never had the chance to see it.

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  • Bebo@sffa.community ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That makes sense. For me, I am very sure about what topics/communities I am interested in; other things I am not interested in checking out. My subscribed field takes up the time I allocate to lemmy anyway.

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• Bebo@sffa.community ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I never browsed all on reddit all the years I was on it.

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• blue_berry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I get posts from other communities in my home feed

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