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Ya'll do realize you can customize what you can/can't see on kbin/lemmy, and your experience is about about how you make it right? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Roundcat@kbin.social to c/general@lemmy.world

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I've just seen a lot of post recently complaining what they see on their front pages such as news, politics, endless memes, etc. But you do know if any of those subs bother you or seem excessive, you can filter the subs so that they don't appear on your front page anymore. Filter memes and 196, and about 70 percent of the memes disappear. Filter world news and news, and bam, most of the news is gone. Don't like politics? Me neither. Just filter politics and any other political subs and bam problem solved.

And let's say you don't want to spend an afternoon filtering subs you don't want to see, and just want to see more games, hobbies, sports, etc. First sub to the communities you want to follow, then go to your settings. You can make it to where lemmy/kbin shows you your subs by default rather than what's popular. Now you have an experience that is totally yours.

And let's say you are not seeing the content you want to see regularly. The best way to ecourage diversity is to post yourself. Post frequently in the communities you want to grow. That's what the people in the subs that annoy you did to start with. Almost all popular communities have at least one power user who regularly and frequently posts. Hell if you don't want to block a community but want to see less from them, it's not hard to find these power users and filter their content.

TLDR: Lemmy/kbin are extremely customizable. You can create the experience you want to have.

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[–] DaveNa@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. Blocking communities is very helpful.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I just got on lemmy and the first thing I did was block a politic post haha

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

To each their own. I've found some one those communities to be the most interesting both in content and discussion.

[–] jayemecee@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yea, I've been using lemmy for the opposite. I want to have contact with every thing that is gaining attention. That way I will not be confined to my own bubble of interest and will be able to have contact with previous unknown stuff. Also the random porn during the day kind of feels nice. Scroll, see an ass, nice, scroll, new Lego set (don't deal with Lego for more than 20years) coming out, cool, scroll, F1 random news (I don't watch) means more knowledge.

Ive been looking for reddit alternatives exactly to not have the catered experience I have there. So lemmy /all /hot works great for me!

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[–] sadreality@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago

Yeah but that's requires people complaining to do something tho...

Why should they bother when they can complain to us

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