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@kbin.social
    23·
    2 years ago

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

    • genoxidedev1@kbin.social
      5·
      2 years 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@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years 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@kbin.social
          1·
          2 years ago

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

  • nocturne213@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 years ago

    Other than blocking those communities, how does one “filter” content? You spend a lot of time talking about doing something and no time explaining how to do it.

  • Odusei@lemmy.world
    14·
    2 years ago

    I still want better content sorting options, though. I don’t want to have to block a subset of content just so that I can see a different subset. Like sometimes I want a meme, sometimes I want to see what’s going on in the world. There are dozens of communities for each of those.

  • Bianca_0089@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    My surprise that I’m allowed to simply have a “completely empty subscription feed” here:

    I want to cry! That’s amazing! Every ‘online billboard//widget thingy’ that I’ve ever used in my life has never let me turn-off the infinitely regenerating news website posts and infinitely regenerating tabloid entries! And most never let me disable the default unremoveable weather widget!

    To have a completely empty subscription feed with “no posts”… that’s sooo fascinating to meee!

  • sadreality@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    Yeah but that’s requires people complaining to do something tho…

    Why should they bother when they can complain to us

  • jayemecee@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    Yea, I’ve been using lemmy for the opposite. I want to have contact with every thing that is gaining attention. That way I will not be confined to my own bubble of interest and will be able to have contact with previous unknown stuff. Also the random porn during the day kind of feels nice. Scroll, see an ass, nice, scroll, new Lego set (don’t deal with Lego for more than 20years) coming out, cool, scroll, F1 random news (I don’t watch) means more knowledge.

    Ive been looking for reddit alternatives exactly to not have the catered experience I have there. So lemmy /all /hot works great for me!