Lemmy.ca's Main Community

3304 readers

38 users here now

Welcome to the lemmy.ca/c/main community!

All new users on lemmy.ca are automatically subscribed to this community, so this is the place to read announcements, make suggestions, and chat about the goings-on of lemmy.ca.

For support requests specific to lemmy.ca, you can use [email protected].

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

The changing feel lemmy.ca’s front page (self.main)

submitted 10 months ago by HewlettHackard to c/main

14 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Back when I joined lemmy.ca, the front page was full of bicycles, city/province-specific community posts, and others like woodworking This morning, four or five of the front page posts were making fun of some crazy bikini lady(?). I read their “read this first” post and understand why they’re doing what they’re doing, but is there a way to get our default front page to be a bit more…friendly and community-oriented?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] i_stole_ur_taco 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The personal fix is to block that community, or set up such that you see subscribed communities by default.

The broader fix would be made to Lemmy itself, and I’m not sure anything like that exists. It would require the same concept as a “default subreddit”, which I’m pretty sure Reddit built as a checkbox their admins can control as to whether a community shows up if you’re not logged in.

Lemmy is still going through growing pains and doesn’t have a large user base yet, so I wouldn’t be surprised if a feature like that doesn’t show up for a long time. We’re probably on our own until then.

[–] streetfestival 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It'd be nice if a feature like this got fast-tracked, because I see this a notable limitation to the Lemmy platform. As an instance, growing in size and maintaining an identity/brand butt heads. Ideally, you'd host whatever people want to contribute that is legal and cool, but you might also want to highlight certain content. "Local - hosted" and "Local - favourites" feeds, or something like that, might work