I’ve just seen a lot of post recently complaining what they see on their front pages such as news, politics, endless memes, etc. But you do know if any of those subs bother you or seem excessive, you can filter the subs so that they don’t appear on your front page anymore. Filter memes and 196, and about 70 percent of the memes disappear. Filter world news and news, and bam, most of the news is gone. Don’t like politics? Me neither. Just filter politics and any other political subs and bam problem solved.

And let’s say you don’t want to spend an afternoon filtering subs you don’t want to see, and just want to see more games, hobbies, sports, etc. First sub to the communities you want to follow, then go to your settings. You can make it to where lemmy/kbin shows you your subs by default rather than what’s popular. Now you have an experience that is totally yours.

And let’s say you are not seeing the content you want to see regularly. The best way to ecourage diversity is to post yourself. Post frequently in the communities you want to grow. That’s what the people in the subs that annoy you did to start with. Almost all popular communities have at least one power user who regularly and frequently posts. Hell if you don’t want to block a community but want to see less from them, it’s not hard to find these power users and filter their content.

TLDR: Lemmy/kbin are extremely customizable. You can create the experience you want to have.

  • downpunxx
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    261 year ago

    It will be nice when we’re able to block entire instances by instance, not just users and communities

    • genoxidedev1
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      51 year ago

      It’s possible on kbin if you go to kbin.social/d/instancename and then block it like you’d block a user or community

      • insomniac_lemon
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        11 year ago

        I tried that for a while and it didn’t seem to work, I was seeing threads from a blocked instance even on the list view. Oddly, there was one thread I saw where all of the comments were hidden because of this.

        Though there isn’t a good way to see if anything is blocked as it should be (including with the language setting) but it’s obvious when something makes it through.

        • tal
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          11 year ago

          It definitely works, as I’ve done it. Maybe there’s some kind of bug you hit.

    • PlasmaDistortion
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      41 year ago

      NSFW instance would be nice to block entirely. Otherwise you see every odd fetish out there.

      • @cola_nut
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        51 year ago

        The other week I was looking to see if I could block that instance entirely. I don’t want to block all nsfw stuff cause I still would like to see non-porn nsfw posts, but having to block each porn community that pops up on all is annoying.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      It’s should be an upcoming feature. That, and community linking (consolidate between instances) should boost the for us all.