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Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think (usher.dev)
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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could also use the Subscribed feed

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If you're on an instance with only 1 user, they're the same thing. But yes, Lemmy's a lot better if you just subscribe to what you want.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What? No, use "All" to browse through federated instances and then subscribe to any interesting communities across the whole Fediverse. Then stick to the "subscribed" feed and only occasionally recheck "All" if you're bored and looking for new communities with none in particular; otherwise, run searches for them.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Let me explain how it works when you self host like me:

  • "All" starts out completely empty, there are no federated instances to find this way.
  • You then have to browse communities on other instances and subscribe to them on your own instance. Only then will posts start showing up in "All".
  • Since there's only 1 user, the list of communities in "All" is the exact same list of communities in "Subscribed"

For most people yes, you can just browse "All" unless you're on a smaller instance, since someone on your Instance has probably already subscribed to the community you're looking for.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 8 hours ago

Huh, I didn't realize that All including all federated communities must be a Thunder-specific feature.

[–] QualifiedKitten@discuss.online 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A bit of a random question: on a single user instance, if you subscribe to a community, then later unsubscribe from it, would that community still show up in your All feed?

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I think it would show up in All still, but only posts that were synced while it was subscribed I think?. I haven't really checked if posts would disappear again. On the "Top Day" view I use, the "All" posts are identical to "Subscribed"