Comment on alien.top is a new level of Reddit crossposting spam
rustyriffs@lemmy.world 11 months agoI can not understand how someone in their right mind would be looking at any content firehose without filtering, but it seems like that this is the reality for many.
I typically browse subscribed until I’m seeing posts I’ve already viewed. I occasionally switch to all to see if I will find any new content/ communities to subscribe to. How do you typically do it?
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
If I ran out of content to see, I take it as a sign that I should go back to work…
rustyriffs@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m never on here during work. Even if I was, that point is pretty unhelpful. I think it’s a normal thing for people to want an unlimited supply of content, as that’s what we’ve gotten used to and that’s what these websites are for. What’s it to you, to dictate how I want to use my time? Whether this behavior is a good or bad thing is another argument. I think the limited content supply a concession that most people have accepted here, on Lemmy, but I also think that it’s possible that it wouldn’t have to be a concession as the platforms grow and get better.
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
Sorry, I meant it as a joke. Clearly it didn’t land.
To give you a serious answer, I think that the point is in understanding that “All” will always be an unfiltered firehose. If the issue is that you are running out of content in the communities you subscribe and that represent your interest, then we need to find ways to increase the amount of content here instead of chasing another fix by going to “All”.
In a way, this is exactly something that the mirrored content from fediverser could also help, and also another reason that I don’t understand why people complain about “spam”. The content from alien.top mirrored is ending up at a community that you subscribe, it is far more likely for that content to be interesting to you than a random post from a community that you do not subscribe.
Re: “finding out new communities to follow”: that’s also part of the Fediverser Project. The idea is to build a crowdsourced map of Lemmy communities to be recommended as the alternative to any given subreddit.
Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s a weird way of spelling “rotating through the same 4 apps until you’re too tired to stay awake”