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I really like Lemmy so far, but sometimes my feed is just invaded by old facebook memes.

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[–] chrisphero@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Don’t use the “all” feed. I only use it to discover new communities (but there is also a specific community for that).

For my daily browsing I exclusively use the “subscribed” feed.

Edit: the community I mentioned is https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities@lemmy.world or !newcommunities@lemmy.world

[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 49 points 1 year ago (5 children)

My problem is that there ain’t enough content yet, so I browse all

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please help by contributing content. Lemmy will not grow and thrive if we all lurk.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Yes, but still, if you want more new content right now, you’re going to need to browse All.

The user base is a fraction of the size of Reddit.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 15 points 1 year ago

You can also block meme communities, that's what I did.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm with you. I blocked the most prolific meme communities and the main posting bots and my feed looks way better now. Remember that you can click on the community name and there's a "block" option on the sidebar, which works on all views. Same with users.

[–] thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wish I could do this with instances. Personally don't want to scroll all and see a load of porn from lemmy.world, blurred or not.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll be surprised if that option isn't coming soon, a lot of people have asked for it. In the meantime, there's a profile setting for not showing NSFW content if that helps. Oh, and I'm betting that, like with Reddit, a giant percentage of the NSFW content comes from a much smaller set of communities, so you might try blocking those to at least reduce it.

[–] thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tried the blocking communities. Unfortunately lemmy.world seems to have a sprawl of these that for individual kinks I guess.

I'm not complaining too much that it's there. Just annoying that it pops up.

I didn't block NSFW content to begin with because I thought there might be some gory stuff that I'm missing out on, but it turns out it's all porn :D

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think none of it is actually on .world, it's almost all on lemmynsfw.com and a couple others.

The gore (or, at least, deaths, is in c/Ukraine. I'd rather see the porn though.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are your interests?

There is !casualconversation@lemmy.world !personalfinance@lemmy.ml, !parenting@lemmy.world and !moviesandtv@lemmy.film that are a bit out of the usual tech/memes/news bubble

[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well… tech, news, memes. Also politics and history

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

Then there's quite some content for you

[–] flipthetube@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I do the same because there isn’t a single community that I care about that isn’t silent if it even exists. Pretty damn boring.

[–] joulethief@compuverse.uk 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you tell us the name of the community you mentioned?

[–] chrisphero@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sorry, I totally forgot to link it (I had it copied already), but here you go: https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities@lemmy.world

I edited my post as well.

Edit: !newcommunities@lemmy.world

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !newcommunities@lemmy.world

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I assume they were talking about !newcommunities@lemmy.world