Exactly this. Lemmy isnt that great if you're not into few specific topics. My ban/blacklist is HUGE. It took a ton of work to make it so every other post isn't anime porn/fantasy fulfillment and suggestions to switch to Linux. If I'm being honest I still browse reddit in an app because otherwise I've run out of things to see on Lemmy in about 20 minutes each day.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It is interesting how people get different results. My process has been to simply block a user or instance when it's obvious nothing from there will ever be interesting to me. I haven't had to do that a lot though, and I don't see any of what you suggest. Then again, while I see mostly Lemmy content, I use Mbin, so perhaps that's part of it as well. Some instances might preblock better than others.

I do think the learning curve is higher than traditional social media. Not that it's hard, but the average person wants a plug and play without having to do anything. The caveat of having a preset curation of "safe" feed is that most people don't explore past that, and it's the random stuff that wanders in that makes things more interesting.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think a difference between us is you block instances. I agree with the idea, but I'm hesitant to block whole instances for fear of weeding out some actually good people. I will block communities that I have zero interest in tho.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

An instance block in your user settings just filters out all of the communities from thst instance. So, if you're worried about not seeing comments from users on those sites, don't be.

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