I think this has negative effects on the threadiverse because it tends to keep user’s focus at lemmy.world and in general keeps users to stay in their bubbles
This is configurable by the admins.
Why is the default setting for the startpage's feed "Local" and not "All"
Submitted 1 year ago by blue_berry@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world
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hitagi@ani.social 1 year ago
dingus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
All is inundated with porn. Until they allow instance blocking for users, it’s incredibly hard to wade through. Turning off NSFW in your settings isn’t a great solution because many of us still want to look at NSFW topics/discussions/memes.
Hazzard@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Very true. As someone who likes the all feed as a decent way to find new communities and just generally see more content, it’s been a lot of using the “Block Instance” button, and I have NSFW turned off, there’s still an abundance of Lemmynsfw celeb type content. I won’t even consider enabling NSFW until we get that functionality.
blue_berry@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s a valid argument. I hope it will change in the future though. On mastodon it also isn’t like that I think
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 year ago
You can just block the NSFW communities you don’t like. There really isn’t that many and much fewer that reach the top of all.
dingus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lemmynsfw.com is where the bulk of them come from. I have probably 100 communities blocked from them and it has helped a little bit, but the sheer volume of communities popping up out of there is incredibly hard to keep up with. It only helps so much.
blue_berry@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This was also complained about in this post: androidauthority.com/reddit-alternatives-lemmy-33… and probably mirrors experiences of other lemmy-users, especailly new-comers.
One paragraph reads: “Sure, there are categorization tools like Lemmy map that let you look up instances, but the Matrix-like grid will certainly not make things any easier for the average user. Even after logging into Lemmyworld, it took me a while to figure out that the local tab restricts all conversations to discussions on the Lemmyworld server. Switching the tab to all and catching up on discussions happening in the broader multiverse of Reddit alternatives is also possible. Still, there’s no visual identifier that guides you toward it.”
This was also my first impression of Lemmy and why I almost dropped it: I thought I could only interact with the communities on my server, which was very frustrating until I saw the filter for “all” and that I could join them just like that. Then it was fine.
willya@lemmyf.uk 1 year ago
Because your instance admins have it at that way.
blue_berry@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Right right, but especially for the biggest instance I think it would be the right thing to do everything to encourage distributing user-engagement throughout the threadiverse.
blue_berry@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This also includes changing the default for finding communities from “local” to “all”. There it really doesn’t make any sense to me.
RobotToaster@infosec.pub 1 year ago
You can change it in user settings.
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Why is the DEFAULT setting for the startpage’s feed “Local” and not “All”
SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I think that’s precisely what it intends to do. There’s interest-specific or country-specific instances that are meant to be your “home”. Lemmy.world is a bad example of it because it’s non-specific and sign ups were open for a long time.
Treevan@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Yep, I’m where I am, subscribed to zero communities but I can check out what’s happening nationally using Local. If the instance got massive, that would change but it’s fine as it is.
I guess the science instances, the art instances, the solarpunk instance, or even porn instances etc use Local heavily.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
A good local feed on lemmy and/or mastodon is worth its weight in gold.
blue_berry@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Right, but for me, choosing an instance is a matter of moderation, maybe tech-stack/performance and data privacy (maybe some other stuff too) but not the content hosted ON the instance. I mean, thats the whole idea of the fediverse. You choose the social network structure that you like and travel the fediverse with that. I don’t like this overly tribel-thinking.
SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
So set your landing page to “subscribed” rather than “local” on whatever app you use. Or take it up with the admin or the lemmy.word community if it causes you a problem. I can’t see how it can put you out that much, or cause “overly tribal thinking” tbh.