Comment on An update to how many boring, repetitive communities I need to block to make Lemmy enjoyable

Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• bachatero@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I really want to do this, but it would be impractical to go through the thousands of communities available and decide if I like it or not. It also doesn’t account for new ones which means I’d have to keep going through the list and look for the ones I haven’t looked at yet.

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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re basically saying “Blocklists are too hard and white lists are even worse, why can’t the software just know what I like?”

    How should it know what you like?

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    • roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bring me back to the warm sweet embrace of the algorithm, daddy.

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      • tal@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Reddit was originally gonna do a per-user recommendation engine, and then it kinda never happened. Might be technically-possible for someone to do one. Classify content (download submitted webpages, run text classifier on them, download images, run image classifier like Stable Diffusion’s Clip Interrogator on them), then look at what things get upvoted and what gets downvoted.

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  • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So, sub to the ones you come across that you like, then browse your subs most of the time and just check All occasionally to see if something new catches your eye.

    That’s how I used reddit and it worked out great.

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    • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or he could as easily block the ones he doesn’t like and stay in all. Just depends how picky he is. Granted, the fact we’re having this discussion implies he’s fairly picky.

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      • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s a perfectly acceptable approach, but it’s a bit odd to complain about seeing things you don’t like in /All. Of course you do, no oneikes everything.

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  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I feel I want three sections in my app: one for all, one for a selection of subscribed communities, one for ‘most’ with a bunch of communities blocked. Maybe I should just use multiple accounts and flip between.

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    • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Separate accounts works great for this. That’s basically how I do it.

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