cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4374751

I think this has negative effects on the threadiverse because it tends to keep user’s focus at lemmy.world and in general keeps users to stay in their bubbles

  • blue_berry@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    If you are e.g. on lemmy.world, random news will also fill your feed with “Local”. Content-specific lemmy-instances are not the rule. The person you describe would sign up for an Arsenal-community and then yes, All as default would be confusing, but Local also. It should be Subscribed as default and All as next choice.

    • _thisdot@infosec.pubEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      The subscribed feed would be empty and the All feed would be irrelevant in the Arsenal fan’s case.

      Local would be full of posts from communities inside the Arsenal instance. Why would that be confusing?

      • blue_berry@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        1 year ago

        It would be fine. Thing is there aren’t that many content-specific instances. The Arsenal-Lemmy-Server is a bad example to generalize upon

        • _thisdot@infosec.pubEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          This is where we disagree. I have active accounts in 3 instances and none of them are general-purpose. I need local feed in all of them.

          We don’t really need more general-purpose instances. There’s <10 right now and that’s good enough. But there’s >100 content-specific instances. I may be wrong on the numbers, I’ll run some analytics and get back