This is absolutely true. Most people reporting on Reddit (that I’ve seen, iirc) say that they leave bc of “tankies”, but regardless of the reason, the system of having to choose between a completely empty Subscribed feed vs… that on someone’s All feed is not ideal in the slightest.
PieFed has made enormous strides to deal with that - including a sign up wizard that subscribes someone to communities only within those topic areas that they indicate interest in, and then at any time for daily use there are Categories of Communities. So in this one respect that issue is “solved” - unfortunately PieFed isn’t ready for the masses yet in other ways (lacks a Preview option for comments/posts, user tagging, Notifications often show things that are inaccessible so clicking them very frustratingly goes nowhere, etc.).
On Lemmy, there are various apps that can help stop the deluge of content - or even on the web, do those communities all come from a specific instance, which could be blocked? But I don’t use any of those apps, and would barely know where to start looking up their various features.
It is in general far too difficult for someone to get into Lemmy in the first place - Blaze is helping solve this problem - and then once here, to want to remain more than a few hours to a day. Our tools are just too far behind Reddit, for those of us who don’t enjoy using Arch btw (translation: have an early adopter mindset, be willing to put up with frustrations, and endlessly configure our experiences rather than simply click and see an r/popular feed that has stuff that people like and very little to nothing that they do not).
This is absolutely true. Most people reporting on Reddit (that I’ve seen, iirc) say that they leave bc of “tankies”, but regardless of the reason, the system of having to choose between a completely empty Subscribed feed vs… that on someone’s All feed is not ideal in the slightest.
PieFed has made enormous strides to deal with that - including a sign up wizard that subscribes someone to communities only within those topic areas that they indicate interest in, and then at any time for daily use there are Categories of Communities. So in this one respect that issue is “solved” - unfortunately PieFed isn’t ready for the masses yet in other ways (lacks a Preview option for comments/posts, user tagging, Notifications often show things that are inaccessible so clicking them very frustratingly goes nowhere, etc.).
On Lemmy, there are various apps that can help stop the deluge of content - or even on the web, do those communities all come from a specific instance, which could be blocked? But I don’t use any of those apps, and would barely know where to start looking up their various features.
It is in general far too difficult for someone to get into Lemmy in the first place - Blaze is helping solve this problem - and then once here, to want to remain more than a few hours to a day. Our tools are just too far behind Reddit, for those of us who don’t enjoy using Arch btw (translation: have an early adopter mindset, be willing to put up with frustrations, and endlessly configure our experiences rather than simply click and see an r/popular feed that has stuff that people like and very little to nothing that they do not).