Instead of blocking stuff, why not just subscribe to everything you’re interested in and ignore “all”? That way nothing ever “pops up” since you’ll only get the list of communities you opted in to.
If I ignore all, how will I ever find things to subscribe to? Just search? How will I know what to search for? Am I just supposed to remember to look for new communities every single day? Every week? What if there’s a great community out there that uses a weird name that doesn’t come up in a search? What if I don’t think of something I like and I never think to search for it? What if there’s something I never knew I liked so I would have never searched for it to begin with? What if something interesting happens in a community that I would have never subscribed to but also wouldn’t have blocked?
It’s just immensely more difficult and time consuming to find all the things that I might be interested in rather than eliminate the few things that I’m not. That’s like saying why not just listen to the same 3 CDs I already know I like rather than put on a streaming service and skip the songs I don’t care for. You get so much more content and variety rather than just sticking with what you already know.
I use this directory, which works pretty well. I’ll subscribe to anything that looks interesting, then unsubscribe from the ones that end up not working out. On Reddit, I would just search, so hopefully the search improves so I don’t need an external resource.
And I personally just search every few weeks or when I want something specific.
What if something interesting happens
Then you miss out. I personally don’t have much FOMO, so it’s not a big deal for me. Most communities don’t have a lot of posts, so it’s not hard to get caught up if I’m late by a week or two.
I personally find that I skip over most content when I visit local or all, so it feels like a huge waste of time vs looking at my subscriptions. I don’t like a lot of the high volume communities (memes and other similar content), so for me, sifting through a ton of uninteresting (to me) content isn’t fun. I’d rather miss a few things than spend tons of time scrolling past things I dislike.
Everyone is different though, and it was just an honest question. If it doesn’t work for you, it doesn’t work.
I think that’s at odds with community discovery on Lemmy + kbin as a whole, particularly as communities actively migrate over from reddit and stackexchange
Is it? I almost never looked at /r/all on Reddit, and most of my subreddit discovery was by searching for keywords. /r/all had such a poor signal to noise ratio (I’m not interested in memes) that it was functionally useless for me, and I feel the same way about Lemmy and stack exchange.
The only time I do anything like “all” on Lemmy is when I see all posts on my instance (or for stack exchange, a given site). I like to think my instance generally has a better signal to noise ratio than the larger instances, so it has some limited utility for me.
I know other people use Lemmy differently, so it was a serious question. It fits my needs well, so maybe it would work well for others.
Instead of blocking stuff, why not just subscribe to everything you’re interested in and ignore “all”? That way nothing ever “pops up” since you’ll only get the list of communities you opted in to.
If I ignore all, how will I ever find things to subscribe to? Just search? How will I know what to search for? Am I just supposed to remember to look for new communities every single day? Every week? What if there’s a great community out there that uses a weird name that doesn’t come up in a search? What if I don’t think of something I like and I never think to search for it? What if there’s something I never knew I liked so I would have never searched for it to begin with? What if something interesting happens in a community that I would have never subscribed to but also wouldn’t have blocked?
It’s just immensely more difficult and time consuming to find all the things that I might be interested in rather than eliminate the few things that I’m not. That’s like saying why not just listen to the same 3 CDs I already know I like rather than put on a streaming service and skip the songs I don’t care for. You get so much more content and variety rather than just sticking with what you already know.
I use this directory, which works pretty well. I’ll subscribe to anything that looks interesting, then unsubscribe from the ones that end up not working out. On Reddit, I would just search, so hopefully the search improves so I don’t need an external resource.
And I personally just search every few weeks or when I want something specific.
Then you miss out. I personally don’t have much FOMO, so it’s not a big deal for me. Most communities don’t have a lot of posts, so it’s not hard to get caught up if I’m late by a week or two.
I personally find that I skip over most content when I visit local or all, so it feels like a huge waste of time vs looking at my subscriptions. I don’t like a lot of the high volume communities (memes and other similar content), so for me, sifting through a ton of uninteresting (to me) content isn’t fun. I’d rather miss a few things than spend tons of time scrolling past things I dislike.
Everyone is different though, and it was just an honest question. If it doesn’t work for you, it doesn’t work.
I think that’s at odds with community discovery on Lemmy + kbin as a whole, particularly as communities actively migrate over from reddit and stackexchange
Is it? I almost never looked at /r/all on Reddit, and most of my subreddit discovery was by searching for keywords. /r/all had such a poor signal to noise ratio (I’m not interested in memes) that it was functionally useless for me, and I feel the same way about Lemmy and stack exchange.
The only time I do anything like “all” on Lemmy is when I see all posts on my instance (or for stack exchange, a given site). I like to think my instance generally has a better signal to noise ratio than the larger instances, so it has some limited utility for me.
I know other people use Lemmy differently, so it was a serious question. It fits my needs well, so maybe it would work well for others.