I think this has negative effects on the threadiverse because it tends to keep user’s focus at lemmy.world and in general keeps users to stay in their bubbles
I think that’s precisely what it intends to do. There’s interest-specific or country-specific instances that are meant to be your “home”. Lemmy.world is a bad example of it because it’s non-specific and sign ups were open for a long time.
Yep, I’m where I am, subscribed to zero communities but I can check out what’s happening nationally using Local. If the instance got massive, that would change but it’s fine as it is.
I guess the science instances, the art instances, the solarpunk instance, or even porn instances etc use Local heavily.
A good local feed on lemmy and/or mastodon its worth its weight in gold.
Right, but for me, choosing an instance is a matter of moderation, maybe tech-stack/performance and data privacy (maybe some other stuff too) but not the content hosted ON the instance. I mean, thats the whole idea of the fediverse. You choose the social network structure that you like and travel the fediverse with that. I don’t like this overly tribel-thinking.
So set your landing page to “subscribed” rather than “local” on whatever app you use. Or take it up with the admin or the lemmy.word community if it causes you a problem. I can’t see how it can put you out that much, or cause “overly tribal thinking” tbh.
It doesn’t. I just think it encourages bad network dynamics. But you are right, its only a minor issue
This is configurable by the admins. We can choose between “Local” and “All” as the default listing.
All is inundated with porn. Until they allow instance blocking for users, it’s incredibly hard to wade through to find new communities you’re interested in. Turning off NSFW in your settings isn’t a great solution because many of us still want to look at NSFW topics/discussions/memes.
To clarify, I don’t have an issue with porn. I just don’t want it on my front page. If I wanted to look at porn, there are plenty of sites dedicated to that already. I’m here for discussion, memes, and cool things.
Very true. As someone who likes the all feed as a decent way to find new communities and just generally see more content, it’s been a lot of using the “Block Instance” button, and I have NSFW turned off, there’s still an abundance of Lemmynsfw celeb type content. I won’t even consider enabling NSFW until we get that functionality.
That’s a good point. I hope it will change in the future though. On mastodon it also isn’t like that I think
All is inundated with porn.
Not for me.
Is your instance defederated with lemmynsfw.com or something (I think there is one more instance for yiff stuff too, but they were smaller and easier to block)? That’s where the bulk of the porn comes from. I try block individual communities when they pop up in my all. but the sheer volume is hard to keep up with.
Yeah, Lemmygrad (and I think lemmy.ml) doesn’t federate porn as a rule
You can just block the NSFW communities you don’t like. There really isn’t that many and much fewer that reach the top of all.
Lemmynsfw.com is where the bulk of them come from. I have probably 100 communities blocked from them and it has helped a little bit, but the sheer volume of communities popping up out of there is incredibly hard to keep up with. It only helps so much.
Ah yes, I just realised that my “all” feed is probably much different from yours, since there isn’t many users on my small instance, subscribing to hundreds of NSFW communities.
This was also complained about in this post: https://www.androidauthority.com/reddit-alternatives-lemmy-3335429/ and probably mirrors experiences of other lemmy-users, especailly new-comers.
One paragraph reads: “Sure, there are categorization tools like Lemmy map that let you look up instances, but the Matrix-like grid will certainly not make things any easier for the average user. Even after logging into Lemmyworld, it took me a while to figure out that the local tab restricts all conversations to discussions on the Lemmyworld server. Switching the tab to all and catching up on discussions happening in the broader multiverse of Reddit alternatives is also possible. Still, there’s no visual identifier that guides you toward it.”
This was also my first impression of Lemmy and why I almost dropped it: I thought I could only interact with the communities on my server, which was very frustrating until I saw the filter for “all” and that I could join them just like that. Then it was fine.
Because your instance admins have it set that way.
Right right, but especially for the biggest instance I think it would be the right thing to do everything to encourage distributing user-engagement throughout the threadiverse.
This also includes changing the default for finding communities from “local” to “all”. There it really doesn’t make any sense to me.
You can change it in user settings.
