So, how do you deal with communities that don’t interest you? I personally block them, because I don’t like them popping up on my All feed, but at the same time I don’t want to switch to Subscribed because a new interesting community might pop up.
What’s your strategy?
I just block communities that don’t interest me (eg. all hentai).
I tend to browse Subscribed but sometimes veer into All to find new stuff that might interest me.
I only subscribe to what I want to read. When I want to go community hunting I use all.
Just keep scrolling
I just block them. Nothing wrong with them—I’m just not interested in the topic.
I don’t seek them out.
I have a massive subscribe list, and I usually just read subscriptions. I’ll occasionally (maybe once it twice a week) read all, and if I notice interesting communities: subscribe to them too.
I use the trendingcommunities community to find new stuff. I rarely browse by all
Same, op. I just block communities to curate the feed to how I want it.
I block communities that routinely show up that I am not interested in seeing and use a monkey script to block instances of no value to me.
I only browse subscribed, but I also sub the muni discovery munis.
Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of anything is crap. Better to skim from the top than wade up a from the bottom, I say.
I usually block because I like going through all because discovery of new communities but there is a lot of junk and spam and non interesting communities.
Sync has a filter option that is not the same as block.
I switch back between subscribed and all with blocks on communities. A medium ground with all, including blocks, or ‘quietens’ as well as blocks would help.
Some communities are spammy and I don’t want them cluttering my feed constantly, but complete block seems excessive. An option to only see the best of their posts would be good. So perhaps they would be quietened to see a max number of top posts or have a ratio applied to their popularity in my feed.
Some communities I do want to block forever though. The problem is subscribed is very limited until the communities build out. All is too spammy and requires lots of curation. We need a middle ground.
I come across many of them on here, esp. all the nude photos, some users are posting full nudes without any screen to conceal it unless I click to view it, so I block that user and block that community. Same goes for any post that is not in English, the user and community gets blocked as I have no need to see foreign language from that user or community ever again.
Did you set your preferred languages on your profile? I only set Undetermined, English and my mother tongue and I haven’t seen a single post in a different language yet.
I use Connect: i filter alot of undesired coms and instances so i could browse only interesting stuff. I filter alot that i get a runtime error, due to server overwhelmed with requests. Connect Dev said that the app will be optimized in a way that u could browse infinitly without compromising said filters or encountring such error. I feel my only bottleneck now is android ram, since browsing down the feed causes the phone to become sluggish and cause other background run apps to crash: probably considering getting a phone with extra ram (8gig with swap enabled? )
Not sure what phone you have, but I’d wait a little if that’s the only reason for buying a new one, the optimizations will come.
i had a tab s2 with 28nm soc, 3gig lpddr3 ram running android 7 and the app quickly crashes, now i use an infinix (random asian brand, but way better than the rest) with a 12nm soc 4 gig of ram (4 doesnt seem enough) and 10w slow charging, the next phone i consider buying would run android 13 with 16 gig of ram (swap included, well, unlocked at least), also includes 33w fast charging and a 6nm soc, kinda finding myself reasons to upgrade, but as u said i am waiting this out too: i wanted to run the app on my pc but also i would have to upgrade my laptop ram so my os could support the android emulator without hiccups. i considered running my own instance for this sake but kinda extreme…lemmy is addictive not gonna lie