Seems like my new job is to block communities.

  • chris@l.roofo.cc
    131·
    1 year ago

    If you only want specific stuff, why don’t you just subscribe to what you like? Your opinion is not unpopular, just wrong. It wouldn’t be better. It would be better for you. That’s an important distinction. Lots of people enjoy it as it is.

    • CosmicApe@kbin.social
      21·
      1 year ago

      But they don’t just want specific stuff, they want everything except for a few specific things

  • Candelestine@lemmy.world
    121·
    1 year ago

    Why do so many people try to use the all feed as their default? That’s so rare everywhere else in social media.

    I mean, I cannot imagine trying to use the waterfall of garbage I’d get if I defaulted to some kind of “all” feed on a place like reddit.

    Where do you folks come from?

    • JimmyBigSausage@lemm.eeOP
      6·
      1 year ago

      I have a Home feed to things I subscribe to. But like to view All for new things. Just want to filter out the explosion of these topics from All. Lots of work to do here✂️✂️✂️you can disagree with my choices. That’s why I posted this here.

      • Candelestine@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 year ago

        It’s not a criticism of you specifically. It’s just that this thread gets made very frequently by many different people, and I’ve yet to really get any kind of answer.

        I ask this same question each time. I really do want to know where people come from that this route sounds like a reasonable and efficient way to approach the user experience. To me it just sounds like a whole lot of work that’ll never end, because people will keep making new communities.

    • wahming@monyet.cc
      4·
      1 year ago

      All is a nice way to find and be exposed to new communities. I’m also on a small instance, so it’s a tiny waterfall

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, in a system where anyone can create any sub, they need significantly finer-grained filters to improve discovery and prevent manual curation of block lists. Like you shouldn’t be able to create an instance &/or sub without declaring a language (apparently the reason you see foreign language posts is because those instances/subs haven’t set their language, or set it wrong). You should have to categorise what your sub is about, and have to set a location. These don’t need to be hyper restrictive. They could be very open ended. They just need to simplify the experience for users to filter out all the crap they don’t care about with minimal effort.

    • Blaze@reddthat.com
      2·
      1 year ago

      Did you try select only Undetermined and English in your account language settings?

      • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
        3·
        1 year ago

        Yes, but the thing is that most people submit non-english content using the Undetermined language, defeating the purpose of filtering out other languages.

        Another issue is that communities can disable some languages, but as a user you don’t see which ones are enabled/disabled.

        • Blaze@reddthat.com
          2·
          1 year ago

          Never hesitate to politely point it out to the community. I’m part of a few French speaking communities, we always make sure to only enable French and to indicate it in the sidebar

          • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
            1·
            1 year ago

            Now I’m wondering, does that cause an issue when posting or commenting with a third-party apps, which might not have the ability to assign a language?

            • Blaze@reddthat.com
              2·
              1 year ago

              There are basically three options

              • user has all languages available, so French would be used as the common language with the community
              • user only has a few languages selected, including French, so same as above
              • user doesn’t have French in their languages, in that case they usually ask in the support community (which allows every language) and see that it’s a common issue
    • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
      2·
      1 year ago

      Would be nice if regional communities could be tagged by language, andnsports tags for sports communities. That would make it easier to find thosez and optionally block them by tags.

      • seathru@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        Would be nice if regional communities could be tagged by language

        That option is there. It’s just half-ass implemented and not enforced.

    • bane_killgrind@kbin.social
      21·
      1 year ago

      私について一体何言ってんだ、このクソ野郎？知っておいていただきたいのですが、私は東京の大学を首席で卒業し、lemmy に関する多数のインターネット投稿に参加し、300 件以上のブーストを受けてきました。私は日本語の訓練を受けており、日本政府全体のトップの通訳者です。

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        1·
        1 year ago

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  • small44@lemmy.world
    81·
    1 year ago

    Why don’t you wish that there is more diverse popular topics instead of wanting less content from what you fon’t like?