Is there a way to curate a front page?
Is there a way to curate a front page?
I really want Lemmy to work but I'm having a difficult time tracking different communities across different instances. It feels like I'm doing something wrong. I typically just land on the lemmy.world front page and scroll through there, and I see some interesting stuff, but I'd like to learn how to curate it a bit more
Try this: go into your user settings, change Type from Local to Subscribed and Sort type from Active to Hot (or New if you prefer that).
Then click on Communities on the top bar, switch the list from Local to All, and find communities you're interested in, you can also search for specific names.
Avoid names ending in @beehaw.org if you see them, they defederated us so we can't interact with them anymore.
When you find something you like, click on the community name to go to their page, on the right you'll find the Subscribe button.
After you subscribed to enough communities, close lemmy and open it again, see if it's better that way (it is for me).
Important note is that Hot is current broken in Lemmy leading to older posts getting boosted to the top in error. It's currently being worked on for the next release.
I had a feeling it was broken. Both active and hot keep showing posts from 2-4 days ago. I'm still looking for an option to hide read posts but i found something that kind of works.
You can change your settings to not show read posts in your feed. Only problem is you gotta open the comments or upvote em. But it helps.
And right now New is definitely the way to go.
I would recommend to Lemmy to add something like top by hour or 12 hours as well, or something similar to the rising sorting with reddit. That might help things become less stale.
I keep seeing people mention clicking on Communities, but I don't see that. Am I missing something?
My top bar has "All, Subscribed, Moderated, Favorites, and then a bunch of magazine suggestions. I don't see Communities anywhere.Edit: Just noticed that this is a Lemmy threaed, is it because I am looking at it via kbin and the communities tab is only in Lemmy? This fediverse thing will take some getting used to.
Subscribe to communities
As I understand it:
Three of the filters on the front page are "subscribed", "local" and "all."
Subscribed filtering is what you are looking for to have a curated front page.
Local is a front page specific to posts on your registered instance [in my case, any sub instance (is that their name?) post from Lemmy.world]
All is any Lemmy post across all instances
You gotta subscribe more, it helps you and others on your instance. I do 2 things- sort by new/all and subscribe to anything interesting, but that's only what others on your instance already subscribed to. The other thing is to use a search tool to find specific interests across instances, I came across this - https://lemmyverse.net/communities
As others have said, Subscribe, then in your settings, you can set the default layout to show Subscribed by default, and also, All Communities, or just local to your instance.
Cheers!
Thank you all, this is exactly what I was looking for!
Subscribe to those communities! And you can block ones you're not interested in if you need to.
@gt5 Sort by new for post and comments, You will thank me. Your feed will always be fresh