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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)

Bebo@sffa.community ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

As a a casual lemmy user with accounts on a few instances, I can say that I never visit the local or all fields of any of my logged in instances. I only visit my subscribed field, which is identical over all my accounts. How much do the local and all fields really matter for users?

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scottywh@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use all constantly, local occasionally, and subscribed rarely at this point.

That may change but that’s how I typically use Lemmy as it stands today.

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- MusketeerX@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  When I first joined I mainly used all to find communities I was interested in and then subbed to them.
  
  Now that I have nearly 100 communities subbed, I mainly use the subscribed view, occasionally I’ll take a look at all, very rarely local.
  
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Elevator7009@kbin.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I do the exact same as you. At least on my Kbin instance, going in All and Local opens me up to outrage bait, and doom-and-gloom “big corporation and alt-right bad” news. I agree wholeheartedly with “big corporation and alt-right bad” and that they’re the cause of too many of the world’s big serious problems. I’d also rather spend my time on Kbin enjoying what I see instead of getting mad. I can already find out what horrible thing a corporation or alt-right politician has done from the regular news, without the understandable but exhausting comment chain of outrage.

Except on a few topic-specific instances, where the local communities are only about that topic. There I will actually use Local as default. No outrage bait or doom-and-gloom news, just all things about whatever topic the instance is dedicated to that I happen to be interested in.

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- Bebo@sffa.community ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I too think the same way. I purposely stay away from all due to excessive doom and gloom. However I haven’t really found any topic specific instance where I would enjoy local content. Now I think finding interesting topic specific instances is a problem whose solution I haven’t found yet. Communities I can find using search function; I even created an account on lemmy world simply to find obscure communities I would be interested in. I wish there would be a simple search function to find topic specific instances.
  
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