Asking this here because it might be a strange question or open for debate.
A habit that I have carried over with me from Reddit is subscribing to every community that I think I’ll be participating in. But I’m kinda thinking of unsubbing from all of the news and politics communities that are always in the ‘All’ tab anyway and keeping my subscriptions to everything other than news and politics. I’d still like to throw in hot takes / shit takes if I feel so inclined but want to seperate it from my main feed.
My question is, is it frowned upon to participate somewhere that you’re not subscribed to if it’s not going to be once in a blue moon? Or a hassle for moderators? I’ve looked up if there’s a Lemmy equivalent of multireddits and from what I can surmise in this Github thread, people are still spitballing ideas but nothing concrete yet. So it seems that method is out of the question for now.
Edit: just had another thought that I don’t want to make another thread about but need to get off my mind. From an app perspective and the Subscribed / Local / All tabs, and comparing that to a place like Bluesky with all the different feeds that you can add or remove, it would be nice if you could have tabs that are specific to instances. For example adding a Blåhaj tab from here in the .world instance I’m signed up on. Basically accessing the ‘Local’ feeds of other instances from one place.
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Was it ever part of reddiquette to only comment in subs to which you had subbed? This is the very first I’m hearing about it.
Yeah I’ve been realising that was probably a dumb question but I’m still kinda getting my head around the different instances and politics between them. And not sure exactly what moderators / admins see or accept either. It’s been informative either way, like finding out there’s an instance that bans non subscribers for downvoting. But yeah, overall something stupid to be worried about, actually.
I’ve never checked if people who comment on cocktails are subscribed, would never think it matters, never even considered it. I personally only subscribe to smaller communities because otherwise they are lost in the feed. Big or popular I can find.
There is a small purely technical point. If you are on a small instance and no one has subscribed to the community then no replies will get back to you. So usually I make sure that the community is federated by subscribing. But if I don’t want to pollute my feed then I don’t usually subscribe.
I subscribe to things that I like to see. Most of the time, I just browse /All, and then block the things I don’t want to see. That way, I still get to ride the waves of genpop trends and interests and sometimes find new things I like to see.
I participate with total disregard to what I am or am not subscribed to.
Same here. On a small platform like Lemmy, block lists are the way to go.
I’ve never once given a single thought about needing to be subscribed to communities to participate, but I can heartily recommend curating your /subscribed feed in that manner to have a front page that (mostly) doesn’t make you reach for the noose constantly.
My question is, is it frowned upon to participate somewhere that you’re not subscribed to if it’s not going to be once in a blue moon?
There’s a couple small instances (mostly just one) where admin(s) will ban you from their entire instance if you down vote without being subscribed…
But honestly you’re better off never participating in any of those places.
No one else cares if you’re subscribed before participating.
I had an admin of a small instance harass me via PM for that.
agreed. I haven’t come across that instance, and will likely block when I do. smh.
Thank you, that’s good to know. So if I do get banned from this odd one out, it won’t be anything to lose sleep over either. I very seldom ever downvote anything personally, although I have caught a couple of accidental touchscreen downvotes I’ve given before and wondered if there were ever any more that I didn’t catch.
As for participating in communities you’re not subscribed to, I think Lemmy is still small enough that, for better or for worse, expect everyone to feel free to comment on everything whether subscribed or not.
I’d like to see us start respecting niche spaces a bit more (for example there’s a lot of AI hate on here, I don’t enjoy AI art either, but I think it’s rude to downvote AI art when it crosses your feed if it’s posted in an AI-art-specific community).
Don’t think there’s a solution similar to multi-reddit yet but as a kbin.social refugee kbin did a good job of linking posts sharing the same news story into one entry which was helpful at reducing clutter. I know there are a couple live instances of kbin still going (kbin.earth is the one I see most if you’re curious).
I think your choice to limit news subscriptions is probably a wise move for your sanity and no one will care about your subscription status if you comment on a news story from all.
I’d like to see us start respecting niche spaces a bit more (for example there’s a lot of AI hate on here, I don’t enjoy AI art either, but I think it’s rude to downvote AI art when it crosses your feed if it’s posted in an AI-art-specific community).
I’m fully onboard with this. I’ve noticed that Lemmy is also still small enough for these niche communities to show up in the ‘All’ tab, which I guess makes them more susceptible to people that can’t just keep scrolling if they don’t like it. Which is my general philosophy on social media, if you’re not interested, just keep scrolling.
It shouldn’t matter what you subscribe to, just that you participate constructively. I’m only explicitly subscribed to a few communities that I want to actively keep up with the /new queue for, everything else I just browse /all.
