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this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
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I realize that a lot of people have a strong dislike of politics, but you wouldn't see so much political discussion if there wasn't an equally large number of people who engage in it. I think most people on Lemmy are probably reading the all feed rather than just local anyway, so one instance not allowing political communities wouldn't really do much. Politics aren't really limited to specific instances so defederating wouldn't really help.
Learn to use your blocklists instead. Block communities, instances, and individuals that you don't want to see. For whatever reason I find myself blocking far more individuals on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit, perhaps because there are a higher percentage of people with extremist views on various topics here.
Everyone already here does that. We're currently 42k monthly active users. If we want to have more niche communities (a complain usually expressed towards the platform), we have to find a way to make it easier to join without having to figure out from the get go how to block what is probably at least 50% of the content here.
People have to be willing to start those niche communities and slog it out alone for a bit.
Speaking as !otomegames@ani.social mod. Otome games don't strictly have to be visual novels but most are, so practically it's a subgenre of an already niche video game genre. Got a few subscribers and posters/commenters. Not nearly as big as Reddit's 100,000ish, but still something. There are more on Mastodon, which I super appreciate the muting and blocking features of.
I recently discussed with @Zagorath@aussie.zone about !aom@lemm.ee (Age of Mythology)
I guess in your case being about a genre rather than a specific game helps
I mean the solution if you don't want to see a common topic on /c/all or whatever we call it on Lemmy is to subscribe to specific communities and just read those. But I don't think Lemmy is really big enough for that yet. I think if you did that you would very quickly notice that you're just seeing the same threads popping up on your feed (individual threads seem to stay active for much longer on Lemmy than on Reddit, owing to less overall content). So I just don't see any obvious path to provide what you're asking. A list of "default communities" like reddit used to have? There's reasons why reddit killed that off, mainly because no one could agree on which communities should or shouldn't be on the list. Individually curated "starter packs" like Bluesky is doing? I dunno you probably could do something like that with the import settings functionality.* I mean the solution if you don't want to see a common topic on /c/all or whatever we call it on Lemmy is to subscribe to specific communities and just read those. But I don't think Lemmy is really big enough for that yet. I think if you did that you would very quickly notice that you're just seeing the same threads popping up on your feed (individual threads seem to stay active for much longer on Lemmy than on Reddit, owing to less overall content). So I just don't see any obvious path to provide what you're asking. A list of "default communities" like reddit used to have? There's reasons why reddit killed that off, mainly because no one could agree on which communities should or shouldn't be on the list. Individually curated "starter packs" like Bluesky is doing? I dunno you probably could do something like that with the import settings functionality. Edit: Perhaps individual instances could have their own lists of default communities. It would give a bit more flavor to which instance you choose. I don't know if current Lemmy codebase would support this, though.