New Lemmy user here. I have two points of improvement I’d like to note, but am not sure where the actual ‘responsibility’ lies.
- It would be great to be able to mass-block communities from lists, rather than tiresomely do them one -at-a-time from ‘All’.
It would also be useful to see the list for subscribing, as I don’t know what’s out there until I see it. Sometimes I can’t think of something to search for until I see it.
Perhaps this lies more with individual apps/ clients rather than the Lemmy ecosystem…?
- May I suggest that communities entirely consisting of bots re-posting Reddit links is, uh, unhelpful?
Anyone?
(BTW I’m sorry that I posted this also a reply to an earlier post. I cannot figure out how to delete it.)
List for subscribing
Like this? https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Bots reposting
There is supposed to be an upcoming change to allow users to block a whole instance from their profile to stop it appearing on their feed. Theres also an option to disable bot accounts from your profile. I found by blocking the username for the bots massively reduces the amount I see of the reddit repost spam
Thanks!!!
Thise are good points, The Reddit reposting bots are annoying since I don’t eant to reply to a bot post and am sure many are like me on that, wich just create barely engaged post’s. The bots can’t reply about what they reposted so it’s useless especially on AITA or what is this thing type posts.
Sounds like we need bots that search through Reddit for the same comments and post the replies.
I’d also like to be able to subscribe to lists of blocked individuals. We have federated trolling and idiocy, so it stands to reason that if Lemmy is going to scale up, we also need federated blocking.
Great idea!
I notice that I can block communities, but not instances. It would be good to be able to do that too. There’s no point in seeing countless posts in a language I don’t understand for instance.
On the 1-1 part, ‘all’ is an aggregate of anything subscribed by someone on your instance, but hiding them from your feed en’masse should be doable from either a client or web frontend. Maybe check a few different ones and see if any have that feature.
1-2 is more difficult since there isn’t a central list of all communities on all instances, but there are some sites that you can browse through several like https://lemmyverse.net/communities?nsfw=null for a starting point.
As to 2.0, it’s a preference thing. Some people like RSS feeds to have stuff come in, some want a more personal touch. If it’s actual news of good province I’ll keep them, but garbage memes can go.
TBH I’ve never been able to figure out RSS feeds. Just my smooth brain.
But yeah it would be awesome to dump garbage “sources”.
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