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There needs to be groups of communities you can block or subscribe to. I couldn't give two shits about Linux or sports teams or gross anime porno. Seeing all that will put off most casual visitors. After 6 months of blocking communities I have a fairly decent front page but still block weird anime shit daily. 99.999% of people will just flounce.
This is where the real problem is. Lemmy users act like there's no issue, because you can block anyone you like, but to most users exploring the platform, that's not helpful at all.
People generally don't want to have to spend an hour making the feed into something useable, much less 6 months. What will draw people in is a feed that is already interesting and useful, which they can customize as they go.
I think the solution would be a set of default subscriptions, and even a default block list. Something that instance admins can curate themselves for the new user experience, but users can still customize as they see fit as they get to know the platform and communities
Absolutely. Even just blocking languages you can't speak would help.
I'm still confused by the need for blocking communities. Maybe it's because I use Sync, but I only subscribe to communities I'm interested in, and I use trending/new community pages to find new ones to subscribe to. My front page is my subscribed communities, so I am never subjected to all the other content I don't care about
I browse everything and block things I don't like. That way I get an endless scroll, like reddit, and don't have 5 posts from my subscribed list. That let's me see everything and I can subscribe to things I might otherwise never see. Just a different approach. There is a metric fuck-ton of dreck though.