Comment on Do we need more users ?

baconmonsta@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The amount of furry / anime content on the front page might be putting off some new users

  I don’t see this on mine. Isn’t NSFW enabled by default?

  This is why I don’t generally believe in all being a good “starting” view for new users. Local would probably make more sense until the user has subscriptions, and then defaulting to subscriptions once the user has joined communities. This would mean an always active feed to start, prioritizing the “local” community for users to participate in the instance they belong to, while also not bombarding them with content from the firehose.

  My 2 cents, probably easier to say what to do than to do it though, being a programmer myself. 😎

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    yeah i think when a new user signs up on an instance, they should be automatically subscribed to a certain list of communities that fit the vibe of the instance. like when you sign up to a memes community, you get automatically subscribed to all meme communities even from other instances.

    the instance admin would have to maintain a community list for that.

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  • baconmonsta@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m not saying it’s necessarily NSFW content

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• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  lemmy is basically NSFW because of this, yes.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    how comes i never see it? did i block it accidentally?

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    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      you’re on a different instance

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  • SilverFlame@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve been blocking communities and posters as they pop up. It works until someone spins up a new instance for it, but then you can just block that as well.

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    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      yes, i can.

      but it’s problematic if I have to do that every day. It’s almost a daily part of my use of lemmy.

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      • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Try PieFed. The reason you keep seeing furry content on Lemmy is that you are forced into browsing “All” in order to see some new content, but then you don’t like some of the new content that you see.

        On PieFed with categories of communities (instance-defined Topic areas and user Feeds that are user-customizeable and shareable) you can have your cake (have a tight Subscribed feed, e.g. without being subscribed to any politics communities if you wanted) but then also eat it too (news & politics content is but a click away, or movies & TV).

        Combining together comments across all cross-posts also helps a lot with community discovery. I haven’t searched by All in a long time, unless I just felt nostalgic and wanted to, but there is no longer any need with this new model.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I am literally on a furry instance, I subscrube to most furry and a lot of anime comms; I rarely if ever see furry or anime content on the front page.

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  • TheOakTree@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    For me, it’s rarely ever furries. Usually it’s the waifu posts that get the hammer from me, mostly because I scroll this thing in public and around people I know.

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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  yeah there’s always gonna be some users who would like more furry/anime content on the front page and those who might be put off by it

  IMHO the best way to do it would be to recommend specific instances to potential new users. i.e. if you know they like furry/anime content, recommend lemmy.blahaj.zone, if you know they like programming memes, recommend programming.dev, etc …

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• rako@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Pro-capitalism garbage is putting me off, yet is everywhere. I like that it’s different, not everyone wants the same things

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