I am writing to ask if there is a way to clean the lemmy feed out. As far as I see, mastodon follows rss like subscription model while as in lemmy i get plenty of politicial, memes, controversial stuff even if I don’t subscribe them. I am tired honestly to block pretty much all such communities and it doesn’t help too much too because there is plenty such communities f.e. “onion” “not onion”. How do you deal with setting lemmy to serve you only technology / science / news ( only related to tech and science ), cosmos, engineering ones and arts ones ( photography, paintings etc )? I would be very grateful for any suggestions as I struggle to use lemmy as a new user
The easiest way would be subscribing to the communities you want and then using the subscribed feed instead of the all feed
Some frontends (mostly the apps) have filters you can use to filter content but the main frontend doesn’t currently apart from blocking the communities
An alternate thing to do could be to use the local feed in the instance that primarily has the content you want. Isnt doable for all types of content since not everything has a topic based instance for it and would require having a new account if you want to interact but theres things such as mander.xyz for science, programming.dev for programming/hardware/etc. topics, etc.
The easiest way would be subscribing to the communities you want and then using the subscribed feed instead of the all feed
I am gonna read only until here…
Seriously guys, isn’t that the way to use these sites!?
This is the way I used Reddit 99% of the time, so yeah, I missed a lot of drama… But that would be a perk for some…
Edit: lol I just scrolled a bit and found this.
Ngl I’m kinda surprised by how many people use the main feed, when I first joined lemmy I just looked up some communities that I was interested in and set my default feed to subscribed only, the only memes I see regularly are from an RPG meme community.
I use the main feed as a way to broaden my horizons. Of course I block communities and use filters extensively as necessary. So it’s not too bad once it’s dialed in.
Lemmy is so early in its growth that I’m not sure why anyone would come here and not have at least a passing interest in All. It lets you see how we’re doing in a collective sense and is going to be the best way to find new communities.
I’m fairly into politics, but even I’m sick of hearing about it all day. I still go into threads though to see if we’re at least posting facts and complete stories, and I try to steer things back in a good direction if I see something.
This is the time period where we’re setting the conduct for our instances. If we allow sloppy posts or misinformation when we’re small, we’ll either never get big or we’ll turn into something we didn’t want. I think that means I’m here for the community building moreso than the actual conduct. If all one wants is tech news, there’s already well established sites giving out nothing but that.
Yup, I use lemmy ( at least try ) like RSS client to create “my feed” but yes, lemmy, does its three cents to the output. I’ll check your points out, thanks (y)
if you scroll All, you’re going to see all.
Some instances, like programming.dev, hides political and porn communities by default, meaning you have to directly subscribe to see any content from those communities. So c/all isn’t all for all instances.
what does that have to do with OP?
Just wanted to point out that
if you scroll All, you’re going to see all.
Doesn’t work the same way on Lemmy as on reddit. Some instances will filter out most politics (something OP complained about) from c/all, meaning scrolling c/all won’t have you see all
Basically just switch to the feed that only shows you your subs.
Once in a while you can browse local or all and see if you find any new communities that you’d like to follow
I have blocked all the political or news-centered communities. That way they don’t show up on the “All”-page.
You can hide posts by keywords in some apps. I use that feature in voyager
Either make subscribed list or block subs and users
