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
The ideal flow isn’t people making “lemmy” accounts like reddit accounts. Take an Arsenal fan. When he finds out the lemmy instance called arsenal.club, he doesn’t have to immediately know what lemmy is or what federation is. He can sign up, view and participate in his local feed, which will be full of Arsenal related stuff. And then he can stick with it or find the full capabilities of federation
If they default to “All”, random news is gonna fill all the default feeds which is weird for a general user
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.
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?
Don’t people switch to using subscribed pretty soon anyway? All is full of junk for me.
junk
I’d say “irrelevant to my interests” 🤷♂️
If you sort All by TopDay it’s not too bad.
Very well. Then subscribed should be default. But in the community tab, default should definitely be “All”. I think here it would be even more important.
If you haven’t created an account, subscribed isn’t available.
For selecting which instance you should join, would “local” or “all” be a better choice for the front page for a new user unfamiliar with Lemmy?
I don’t understand why local feeds exist at all. Very few instances are topic-based. Most of the time a local feed makes no sense.
My little Lemmy is for art, or so am I trying to make it.
I think its nice to see which people are actually on your instance and what they are chatting about :D But its definitely an advanced feature, which makes it even more confusing to me why its the default value in the feed and the tab for finding new communities.
