Most of the time, I read the “subscribed” feed, sorted by scaled. Maybe once a week or once a month I check what’s in the “all” feed, sorted by top of the week or something like that.
My opinion is, that this is the better way to see the stuff I care about, and it allows me to ignore all the stuff I don’t care about. I’ve seen many people say that you should read the “all” feed, but I just don’t seem much value in that. There are a few people who agree with me, but we appear to be a minority here, hence the unpopular part of this opinion.
There are only a handful of communities I subscribe to, so that I can sort by /new and never miss a post.
But the fact that they’re slow enough for me to never miss a post means I can’t just browse. So /all is the frontpage for browsing.
That’s where I’m at.
I use Mbin, but I’m gonna go ahead and agree with you.
Every time I browse “all”, I have to block a bunch of communities.
And that’s a good thing! I’m blocking communities that aren’t in my language or interest, but the fact that they keep appearing means interests are diverse :)
I’m gonna give you the opposite approach. I browse all but then keep blocking communities I do not care about at all. It allows me to still see a lot of stuff I would normally not subscribe to and I get to see when new communities rise up. I also alternate between sorting for hot and active.
This is what I do. It’s very satisfying to keep your “All” feed pruned. Easy to do when Lemmy’s not that big.
Seriously? I’ve been working on my list since the api thing and I still get 3 foreign language communities a day. And now that I’ve blocked so much it’s mostly just dreck.
I do the same. The foreign language ones aren’t so bad, it’s the anime ones, especially the creepy porny ones I hate. I block them constantly, but it’s like a creepy incel hydra. Every head I cut off three more spring up in their place.
Oh god yes! That Moe guy is one pervy dude! That is what will keep lemmy from being attractive to new comers.
Is it mostly just one guy? Because I could save a lot of time by just blocking that person.
Either you’re hilarious or this is proof you’ve been blocking properly.
Haha I must be blocking properly because I have no idea what you’re talking about my dude.
That’s a fine approach too. You’re essentially using a black list filter, while I’m using a white list.
you can also block the instances that you dislike, but that just takes up a whole lot of time to do.
Does it? You just click on the community, the three dots, then click block community. It takes a second or two.
I don’t know anyone else who uses Lemmy, but I would agree. That’s the whole idea of subscribing. The local feed and all are full of stuff I don’t wish to see.
I’m not sure if using a website’s main feature as intended really counts as an “unpopular” opinion
That’s why there are subs (or whatever you call them here). I’ve been following reddit that way, as you described, for some decades now. I honestly preferred it before there were subs but, once there were, viewing all was just never the same again.
I largely agree with you, but I still look at All frequently. It has the benefit of helping me find more communities to subscribe to, but also there’s just more activity.
But only if you subscribe to lots of communities. I have a couple dozen and only get a few posts per day. So I use my subscribe as home, and then switch to all. But my All is highly censored with word and community filters mostly to remove US politics.
I guess that’s key detail here. I am subscribed to lots and lots of communities, some of which are nearly dead. I want to keep an eye on several small and special communities that focus on a very narrow niche. You’ll probably never see any of those communities in the All feed.
