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How can we make Lemmy easier for new users? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm curious to hear if you have any thoughts or ideas about this. As a developer I understand very well how Lemmy works, and cant tell at all what might be difficult or confusing.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

If you want to stumble on new ones you will always see some you don't like...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

If they are new ones I won't know if I want to see them or not until I actually seem them first... You are missing my point, I don't know how to make it clearer.

I want to leave the door open to see new communities that i don't know, while muting ones I know and i don't want to see (they are not many rn, just a couple, but Im imagining it escalating in the future). Currently you either see everything or you only see the subscribed ones. there is no middleground

I can try further with an example...

Dramatization Imagine there's a c/drugs and George does not like it. Everyday he comes to lemmy to see what's new, but he has to go through the posts of this idiots smoking joints that have been posting a lot lately. It makes him feel revolted because his best friend died of a drug related issue. If you tell George "just look at your subscribed feed and you won't see them" that is not ideal because it will make him miss the c/snooker that was created recently, which is a shame as he is really into snooker. He is not subbed to it and he won't know of it's existence by going through the ones he is subscribed. The only way there there is right now to know about c/snooker is to go through the dozens of posts that those guys at c/drugs have been spamming that will make him feel not not so good. Surely he also is not that big on c/poodles and c/womenshoes do not mean anything to him, but that is not really an issue.

Does it help?

Edit: not s/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I mostly discover new communities through cross posts, which seems more efficient than browsing the local feed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I mostly discover new communities through cross posts

Cool

which seems more efficient than browsing the local feed.

My issue is not a lack of efficiency when looking for new c/'s, it's with clutter on the front page of communities i couldn't care less but i have see anyway. muting them while allowing for finding new ones, either from crossposts or not, would be nice