Often, its asked what the fediverse or lemmy needs more of in terms of content, but are there any specific features or functionality you really feel are lacking?
Often, its asked what the fediverse or lemmy needs more of in terms of content, but are there any specific features or functionality you really feel are lacking?
I’ve said before, but part of my biggest gripe with Lemmy is the process of curating a decent feed. A lot of new users will see the mess of posts in All, including political extremists, an ever growing list of fetish porn communities, and bottom of the barrel shitposts, and they won’t be interested in spending a couple hours blocking and subscribing to things before the feed is usable.
One way to address this is to give instance admins better tools to curate a default subscriptions and block list for their users. Allow admins to create what they think is the most accessible feed, but also allow users to customize it as they see fit.
I whitelist rather than blacklist. I browse Subscribed normally. I think that under the existing system, that’s the only realistic way to scale. Hit lemmyverse.net or similar periodically to look for new, interesting communities, but the whole thing is gonna be a firehose.
I do understand that BlueSky has some sort of “curated lists” feature that sounds interesting, and I’ve thrown around some ideas around having curation decoupled from community/instance bans and global voting.