I am writing to ask if there is a way to clean the lemmy feed out. As far as I see, mastodon follows rss like subscription model while as in lemmy i get plenty of politicial, memes, controversial stuff even if I don’t subscribe them. I am tired honestly to block pretty much all such communities and it doesn’t help too much too because there is plenty such communities f.e. “onion” “not onion”. How do you deal with setting lemmy to serve you only technology / science / news ( only related to tech and science ), cosmos, engineering ones and arts ones ( photography, paintings etc )? I would be very grateful for any suggestions as I struggle to use lemmy as a new user
The easiest way would be subscribing to the communities you want and then using the subscribed feed instead of the all feed
Some frontends (mostly the apps) have filters you can use to filter content but the main frontend doesn’t currently apart from blocking the communities
An alternate thing to do could be to use the local feed in the instance that primarily has the content you want. Isnt doable for all types of content since not everything has a topic based instance for it and would require having a new account if you want to interact but theres things such as mander.xyz for science, programming.dev for programming/hardware/etc. topics, etc.
The easiest way would be subscribing to the communities you want and then using the subscribed feed instead of the all feed
I am gonna read only until here…
Seriously guys, isn’t that the way to use these sites!?
This is the way I used Reddit 99% of the time, so yeah, I missed a lot of drama… But that would be a perk for some…
Edit: lol I just scrolled a bit and found this.
Ngl I’m kinda surprised by how many people use the main feed, when I first joined lemmy I just looked up some communities that I was interested in and set my default feed to subscribed only, the only memes I see regularly are from an RPG meme community.
Lemmy is a barren landscape of emptiness of your stray outside of All.
Not in my experience. I only browse by “subscribed”.
You must be subscribed to memes and shitposts
I only browse by subscribed because I don’t subscribe to communities with “memes” and “shitposts”, if a community has too many of them I unsubscribe to them.
