I heard that the All feed aggregates content from all communities that instance members have subscribed to, meaning if I subscribe to a new community, it’ll start showing up in everyone else’s All feed.
Let’s suppose I have an account on an instance with a particular thematic focus. Should I avoid subscribing to communities outside of that theme, in order to preserve the purity of their All feed?
Nah. That’s what Local is for
100%. If the owner doesn’t want specific content there, he can always defederate
I like discovering new communities and content through other people, but I will say y’all need to lay off the furry porn.
Personally I think it’s even the opposite. What Lemmy needs is more interesting content and interaction, whether it’s “niche” or not, and making content more visible to others spreads awareness so to speak. Deliberately holding back your own interests just because it could inconvenience someone else on the internet IF they sort their feed in a specific way … that’s counter-productive both for the site as a whole and your own spare time / interests in particular. Just subscribe to whatever community you want.
Especially if it’s something niche that would not get much traffic otherwise.
I block NSFW on Lemmy.
No. In fact, you’re helping your instance. If people don’t want to see your niche instance, they gotta get out of the All feed and go back to their Home.
Just don’t follow any NSFW and people don’t be bothered.
I would say that it’s too early for anyone to know what a more solidified etiquette will be. So for now just do whatever you want so long as you pay attention to any changes in public opinion or rule changes.
The All Feed shows you all communities from all instances. Whether you are subscribed to them or not.
The Local Feed shows you all communities from your instance. Whether you are subscribed to them or not.
The Home Feed shows you only communities you are subscribed to. This includes any communities you follow that are located in other instances.
Not quite, the All feed shows you all posts from all communities subscribed to on your instance. If there isn’t a user subscribed, it isn’t pushed to that instance.
So that one subscription is effectively how ‘my’ instance becomes aware any specific community off-instance, in order to check for posts there?
That both makes sense and is rather counterintuitive at the same time.
I think it becomes pretty intuitive if you can hold in your mind the model of each instance as a totally separate, independent website with no inherent ties to any other.
The problem is, everything here kind of vaguely looks like a place we’re used to being a single website, and each instance looks more or less like each other, so that sense of independence and difference is lost. But if you think of it like, I don’t know, Facebook or something like that having the possibility of communicating with mydumbwebsite.com, it becomes a lot clearer that that communication needs to be initiated somehow.
