So, how do you deal with communities that don’t interest you? I personally block them, because I don’t like them popping up on my All feed, but at the same time I don’t want to switch to Subscribed because a new interesting community might pop up.

What’s your strategy?

  • @[email protected]
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    262 years ago

    I just block communities that don’t interest me (eg. all hentai).

    I tend to browse Subscribed but sometimes veer into All to find new stuff that might interest me.

    • clif
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      132 years ago

      Same here.

      So. Much. Hentai. Don’t forget the furries too - almost as many furry communities as hentai.

      • @[email protected]
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        162 years ago

        Same with all the weird female celebrity worship porn communities, there are so many and I’m so weirded out by people jerking off to normal pictures of these women simply existing

        • SmokeInFog
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          112 years ago

          Maybe it’s just a carryover from my time in reddit where I never ever chose to look at /r/all but y’all are making me glad I stick to just my subscribed feed

          • @[email protected]
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            62 years ago

            I like to browse all to find new communities, my subscription feed isn’t robust enough yet to fully support my browsing

        • clif
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          32 years ago

          Yes! I forgot about those but they’re also on the (auto block) list.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        And the furry/hentai crossover communities too. I’m pretty sure those exist because it’s the internet.

  • @[email protected]
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    172 years ago

    I have a massive subscribe list, and I usually just read subscriptions. I’ll occasionally (maybe once it twice a week) read all, and if I notice interesting communities: subscribe to them too.

  • @Kbobabob
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    32 years ago

    Sync has a filter option that is not the same as block.

  • @[email protected]
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    32 years ago

    I usually stick to subscribe and Search lemmyverse when I’m looking for new things or I use the new community community

  • @jeffw
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    32 years ago

    I use the trendingcommunities community to find new stuff. I rarely browse by all

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      Or just read the trending communities box at the top of the screen whenever you reload the page. I’ve added several new communities due to seeing something there.

      • Aa!
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        12 years ago

        I’m not sure how your experience has worked, but every time I clicked on one of the trending communities, it was always an empty feed.

        Did they fix the algorithm, or have I just been incredibly unlucky?

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          That’s really weird, every one I’ve clicked on went to a live community. I’m using the regular web page, if you’re using an app maybe that is broken?

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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    32 years ago

    I only browse subscribed, but I also sub the muni discovery munis.

    Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of anything is crap. Better to skim from the top than wade up a from the bottom, I say.

  • Kalash
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    32 years ago

    Most of them I just ignore. But a handful were very active and were topics I was 100% never gonna be interessted in, so I blocked them.

  • Schwim Dandy
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    22 years ago

    I block communities that routinely show up that I am not interested in seeing and use a monkey script to block instances of no value to me.

  • @[email protected]
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    22 years ago

    I switch back between subscribed and all with blocks on communities. A medium ground with all, including blocks, or ‘quietens’ as well as blocks would help.

    Some communities are spammy and I don’t want them cluttering my feed constantly, but complete block seems excessive. An option to only see the best of their posts would be good. So perhaps they would be quietened to see a max number of top posts or have a ratio applied to their popularity in my feed.

    Some communities I do want to block forever though. The problem is subscribed is very limited until the communities build out. All is too spammy and requires lots of curation. We need a middle ground.