Seems like my new job is to block communities.

  • Candelestine@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Why do so many people try to use the all feed as their default? That’s so rare everywhere else in social media.

    I mean, I cannot imagine trying to use the waterfall of garbage I’d get if I defaulted to some kind of “all” feed on a place like reddit.

    Where do you folks come from?

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      I have a Home feed to things I subscribe to. But like to view All for new things. Just want to filter out the explosion of these topics from All. Lots of work to do here✂️✂️✂️you can disagree with my choices. That’s why I posted this here.

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        It’s not a criticism of you specifically. It’s just that this thread gets made very frequently by many different people, and I’ve yet to really get any kind of answer.

        I ask this same question each time. I really do want to know where people come from that this route sounds like a reasonable and efficient way to approach the user experience. To me it just sounds like a whole lot of work that’ll never end, because people will keep making new communities.

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          5 months ago

          Lemmy is new. I don’t inherently know what communities I want to subscribe to. How do I stumble across them without using all?

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            5 months ago

            No, not really. lol I mean yeah, life has a lot of work in it, but life doesn’t have an optional “all” feed. Fortunately. That’d be even worse than a reddit all feed.

            edit: I mean, even 4chan doesn’t have an all feed.

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      All is a nice way to find and be exposed to new communities. I’m also on a small instance, so it’s a tiny waterfall