I’m playing whack a mole constantly, blocking all these anime subs!

  • kratoz29
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    582 months ago

    What is mental for me is that people browse the ALL feed and then complain about what it shows… I feel crazy only browsing my subbed communities all the time lol.

    • lurch (he/him)
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      172 months ago

      yeah, it doesn’t make sense to complain, but browsing ALL and blocking what you never wanna see again leaves you with lots of neat stuff you wouldn’t have found sticking to your subscribed communities.

      however, i wish lemmy had categories/tags for communities, so people could block or specificly browse everything anime or everything sports etc. it would be quite helpful.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 months ago

        This is what Im doing for now, also trying to subscribe to a bunch of stuff.

        But Im newbhear and still browse reddit some as I figure all this out.

        Now if only my favorite twitter followers would switch to mastadon…

      • kratoz29
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        42 months ago

        leaves you with lots of neat stuff you wouldn’t have found sticking to your subscribed communities.

        Oh yeah, I can totally dig that, I had the trending communities at my subbed communities though, although I don’t see it popping up as often as it used to.

        however, i wish lemmy had categories/tags for communities, so people could block or specificly browse everything anime or everything sports etc. it would be quite helpful.

        I like Summit for Lemmy a lot because it let me create multi communities, so far I have one for gaming, one for retrogaming and other for handheld gaming, sadly Lemmy ain’t reddit yet (only the first two are fairly active).

    • @[email protected]
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      92 months ago

      All is how I browsed reddit, so it’s how I browse Lemmy too. Like others have said, it allows you to find new communities, and is a pleasant experience once you filter out all the trouble communities and instances.

      And TBF, Lemmy doesn’t have default communities and I’m too lazy/ADHD to subscribe to any of them.

      • kratoz29
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        42 months ago

        That is fair, browsing my subbed subreddits for more than 10 years was my way to go for Reddit (Reddit was my replacement for Feedly, basically, so I am used to curating my stuff).

        Maybe that is why, aside from the APIcalypse I don’t have a grudge against Reddit, and I missed some huge drama shit and toxic bs that you’d find in r/All (spam, bots and reposts too).

    • dream_weasel
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      62 months ago

      How few interests do you have and how active are the communities? If I did just my subbed communities all the time it would be 2 day old politics and comedy subs with last post 2+ weeks ago.

      I guess maybe you don’t browse much or you’ve got a much more active set of core subs.

      (Maybe some of that unavoidable anime and femboy content IDK)

      • kratoz29
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        32 months ago

        I follow more than 800 communities, I never finish up my backlog feed 🤣 (but I do see a lot of repeated content for sure).

        • dream_weasel
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          2 months ago

          I’ve got maybe 50? But you can’t get new ones without browsing “All” or searching for specific stuff. If you don’t know what you’re looking for “All” is the only way to find new communities.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 months ago

        Why do you want to browse stuff that you have zero interest in? I imagine it to be a massive waste of time.

        I’d prefer to view only the communities I’ve subbed to and see that there is no new contributions than look at stuff I have no interest in because I can turn off Lemmy and do something else with my day.

        • dream_weasel
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          42 months ago

          How do you know what new things you have no interest in? I block the stuff I don’t like, I sub what I definitely do like (and occasionally browse it), and the rest I am happy to watch pass by and give up- or downvotes accordingly.

          This is like asking “why would you go to a new website when you already know what you like?” Or “why would you go to a new place to look for friends or dates when you know you like people at XXX place?”.

          Frankly, sorry, this perspective of “anything I haven’t subbed I obviously don’t like” is pretty fuckin stupid. Don’t feel bad though, you aren’t alone thinking it.

          • @[email protected]
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            “Frankly, sorry, this perspective of “anything I haven’t subbed I obviously don’t like” is pretty fuckin stupid. Don’t feel bad though, you aren’t alone thinking it.”

            Likewise, I think it’s really stupid to be looking at content you have zero interest in. And likewise, don’t feel bad though, you aren’t alone.

            Thanks for the belittling tone of your statement there 😉. You just have a different point of view.

            How can you waste so much time looking at content that you have zero interest in? Don’t you have stuff to actually do in life, or are you one of these people that get bored because you’ve got nothing to do?

            I’m a person that never gets bored. I always have something I want to do. I don’t have time to be doing things that aren’t necessary to survive and things I don’t enjoy.

            I know who I am, and what I like. My interests are quite broad and I know what I don’t want to see. I prefer to white list my interests on Lemmy than black list the things I have zero interest in. Even thought my interests are quite broad, white listing is significantly shorter. In an infinite number of interests, my 1000 interests are significantly shorter than infinity-1000.

            Edit: When I gain a new interest, which is usually a sub interest of another interest I have then I’ll look for the community on Lemmy/Reddit/other forums.

            When I first started Reddit many years ago I learnt that all is usually full of rage bait content. I avoid rage bait as much as possible. I guestimate that all on Lemmy is exactly the same since most Lemmy users were/are Reddit users.

            • dream_weasel
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              12 months ago

              Live your best life yo, and have fun doing you. It would be cool to be young and know everything again.

              You don’t engage with new communities, neat. I like to keep an eye open, because out of infinity - 1000, there are still infinite communities I MIGHT like. Or even infinite - 2000 I don’t like too. Look at all the math I can do. Here’s an emoji 😍. Shut up, dude. Tell all your friends how well you know yourself, your perspective is still fucking stupid.

              Belittled because, here on the net, you are little. Just like everyone else.

      • kratoz29
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        22 months ago

        I’d suppose that, but so far all people that have replied to me say otherwise 😅