When viewing Lemmy, do you view "all" or your subscribed communities?

Kevin@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 127 points –
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All, but I keep blocking communities I don't have interest in.

Oh my god I wish I could just "block all Japanese cartoon communities"

Fucksake guys

For real. So much moe stuff posted that I actually learned what it means... Started posting this in every post before blocking the community.

This is my preferred method as well.

It would be so much easier if instance blocking was working for me, I have had to block any lammynsfw community manually when they show up, despite having added lemmynsfw.com to the block list...

Connect can just blur or not show any NSFW post, if that helps

I am on Memmy and it does blur NSFW posts, but I don't want to risk opening any NSFW post at work or with family so I just block any NSFW community that I see

That’s why you have 2 Lemmy apps and a username_NSFW alias. Work safe one for usual stuff. NSFW one for . . . NSFW things.

I already have a way to safely store NSFW material on my phone witht low risk. So K have never seen the need to get on that part of lemmy

So the hiding function in Connect should work for you, without having to do all the blocking.

Same, I used to also do this on reddit with boost but once third party apps were banned I quit reddit. I saw some really gruesome stuff in r/all though...

Subs first, then All. The only reason I browse All is because I'm all caught up with my subs and there's nothing else to consume but All.

New or by 1 hour.

I dont sign up for communities. Just throw it all at me. I want an unfiltered and unadulterated view as to whatever the capitol C community is into.

I do a subscribed run, then i go into all. Since i sort by "Top Twelve hours" i only have one or two pages of subscribed

All because I like seeing more than just what I subscribe to.

How else would I see a bunch of news article headlines that I'll never read the actual article of but still make a comment on purely based on the article headline? /s

I usually start with subscribed, and when I run out of new content I switch to all and it reminds me why I prefer to stick with subscribed as a default.

Same. But I block communities on all regularly.

It's better for discovery, just casually browse and just block the communities that you don't like. Much better for discovery.

All. Throw it all at me. Gork needs content.

I use subscribed first and then once I have looked at the new things under my subscribed feed I switch to all and top either today or top in past 12 hours

Edit: In fact, all top today is how I found this post to begin with. Otherwise, I would not have seen it.

Subscribed.

If I view all, all I get is a bunch of repetitive news posts and a whooole lotta pro russia stuff. Im just here for the memes and video games.

Always subscribed, otherwise it's just memes and political shit flooding my feed.

I am still relatively new to Lemmy, so I view New All so I can catch any new communities that I want to subscribe to. Once my list get sufficiently diverse I will switch to New Subscribed.

I start with subscribed, once caught up i switch to all. I have an account on a small niche instance that i switch to and read local for a bit too.

im a kbinner but basically same. I do subscribed new since its pretty currated and I keep up with it and then if I have time all hot and finally all new if I have loads of time.

I do a little bit of both.

I'm only subscribed to about 10 small communities, where it's stuff that I love but the communities are small enough that they don't really reach my all feed.

And the way I browse all is that I'm always blocking communities that really don't interest me so over time I only see stuff I like.

Subscribed, definitely.

Way easier than playing whack-a-mole with the block button.

Subscribed only for me. I can't imagine the amount of politics, drama, porn and other stuff that's on the all feed which I don't want to see.

I'd like to thank all the "all browsers" that see something they don't like on "all", but ignore it and move on with their life.

For whenever reason there's people out there that browse by "all", but downvote stuff they don't like. And then make huge ranty posts about how Lemmy is full of toxicity, furry porn, politics, anime or whatever.

Surprisingly less porn than you'd imagine. Though I go a different way, I browse all (because of FOMO) but block communities that post stuff I don't want to see. Now I have a very tailored all feed that also includes new stuff I might not have known about to subscribe to.

This is the way to go. I encourage everyone to block users too. Lots of them. It really does affect your experience of the site. I sometimes scroll thru the comments of some controversial topic only to find the most extreme commentors that bring nothing of a value to the conversation just so that I can pre-emptively block them. I'd say that 3 times out of 4 when I log out to see a comment that a blocked user wrote I just find that I did the right decision.

All. My subscribed communities aren't all that active currently, or it's just daily posts by me in the communities I moderate.

always All. it's how i find new communities. it would prob be good if i start subscribing to more of the communities that i like though.

atm i'm just relying on the collective views of the threadiverse to feed me content.

Both, I'll flip into All if the updates are coming slow on my sub feed

My default view is moderated, and after I've checked the nwew stuff there I switch to all.

Subscribed and if I want more after that then I go check all too but that basically means subscribed + memes as I have blocked around 400 communities that I'm not interested about.

I doomscroll all till I realise it's not my subscribed feed.

Subscribed. Being bombarded with global politics all day isn't good for anyone's state of mind.

Subscribed first then all if I want to see what else is there.

All. If I scroll too far and the blurry thumbnails appear more frequently, I know I need to stop scrolling for that day.

I start with subscribed sorted by new. After that, I flick over the scaled subscribed, and then I go to scaled all

it does depend. if i'm picking fights, i view comments by new in my subs. if i'm trying to mindlessly scroll, i view all.

Both. That's what I like about it. If I viewed all on Reddit it could be boring but Lemmy is interesting both ways.

Both. If I'm looking at subscribed, usually I'll sort by New. If it's All, I'll go by Active or Hot.

Subscribed, and when I soon run out of content I switch to all.

I dislike Reddit as much as anyone here but god do I miss the sheer amount of content.

I view all, sorted by Newest Comment and then sort the comments by New. I really only subscribe to things to get them federated with my instance (so many communities on other instances, I am literally the only one on my own instance subscribed to them so they don't show up on my feed at all before I find them) and to be able to quickly see a specific community by itself, if I so desire.

All, same reasons as others, not enough active communities with my specific interests, the all feed is good though :)

That's how I used reddit too for many years, took a long time to curate subs, I hope a similar thing can come about in Lemmy

Subscribed, although there isn't much content so I'm trying to find posts on other places.

Usually All. I started that way to find more communities to sub but then got in the habit. Even with a healthy list of subs I still feel a bit limited on subscribed, see more activity on all.

Local New first, once that is exhausted I view All New.

Subscribed, then specific communities by url (since sometimes smaller community posts don't show up on the frontpage), then All if I'm really bored.

All - Top - 6 Hours

If I'm feeling cheeky I'll browse hot or sometimes even Scaled

I've curated enough active communities to just browse Home every few hours. But if I'm curious, I browse All on occasion.

Both are set to Rising, and All excludes all subscribed communities.

All new lol. I look at subscribed after I get sick of all.

there isn't enough traction with the greater populace quite yet, so the lower volume of new posts, means one would be looking at all the same posts for days sometimes if only defaulting to their "subscribed" view, as apposed to all/hot all/newest ...... etc, where there is greater numbers of new posts, a lot of unwanted garbage to be sure, but more action