I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but threads or comments about Lemmy or the Fediverse get downvoted a lot on Reddit and trolls who claim that it’s “dogshit” and “not going anywhere” get systematically upvoted.
Some of those trolls get then exposed when you ask them what Lemmy instance they tried and one of them with whom I had a surreal exchange answered with something like “yeah ofc I used Lemmy, this is the instance: join-lemmy.org” 🤦♂️
It’s frustrating that these trolls keep contributing to the big lie that “Lemmy is not ready yet” and that there’s “no viable alternative to Reddit”.
This and the overwhelming number of comments being “against the mod protests” just prompts me to question whether there isn’t some brigading being organized straight from the Reddit HQ.
I don’t know about lemmy but I’m using kbin and it’s pretty easy to subscribe to magazines (aka communities) and block the ones I don’t want to see
It’s the same in Lemmy, I’d say it’s even a bit easier. Default is local/active, and that has a lot of noise depending on the instance. But it’s only a click to switch to subscribed. And it’s easy to subscribe to or block communities as well.
Speaking of Kbin i’ve had one gripe
If you turn on the top bar, it doesn’t show your subscribed magazines, just random magazines. I can click the Subscribed page but if nobody has posted in that magazine today It won’t show up.
I did just find that there is a place that just lists the magazine subscriptions if you need to see them, but it’s tucked in profile and you actually have to scroll to the right of the profile options to see it.
Yeah tbh while obviously not going to be as polished as the reddit app or a third party app because they have YEARS more headway, I find kbin to be working pretty fuckin good. If you told me a few months ago I would be rarely if ever checking reddit I would have laughed.
It has it’s problems as anything like this will , but most of the stuff I want is working fine.
Yeah, and you can even make the view with only your subscribed communities the default when you open the site