Same, on many topics. How would I know which community will have the most active, or none at all. It’s my biggest issue here. Not a deal breaker, but annoying.
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mateomaui@reddthat.com 9 months agoI agree on that point. I find myself wanting to block the extraneous news communities to only see one copy of a story instead of six, but have no idea which ones to consider the extras.
betabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
livus@kbin.social 9 months ago
@betabob when you search communities in lemmy doesn't it give you number of posts? That's a pretty good indication.
Way I see it, join em all, you soon see what is and isn't active.
betabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Sure, but I feel like there is still fluctuation and more often than not a varying degree of activity and posts that it makes it hard to stick to just one (identical) community for now. I’m sure it’ll settle over time though.
livus@kbin.social 9 months ago
livus@kbin.social 9 months ago
Hmm one hack for you would be to take a look at the feeds for news collections on http://kbin.social/magazines/collections and get a sense of which are most active, then sub to them or block others.
Or you could just pick the ones where you like the comments.
I block all the big meme communities to improve my All.
mateomaui@reddthat.com 9 months ago
hmmm, ok, thanks, I’ll give that a shot. Pretty much all meme communities are already blocked here, that’s not an issue. The main problem with news communities is I’m trying to avoid subscribing to them so my subscribed feed is spared all the stressful content if I want a break from it, but I may have to compromise there.