Andrew already answered, but I thought I would add that while I used to block communities all the time on Lemmy, here I never do (I confirmed: I have zero communities currently blocked).
The reason is that I used to hunt through the All feed to find new content, and so I wanted to clean that up a bit by blocking communities that I would never be interested in. Whereas now, I go through the Subscribed feed and the individual Topic ones instead. Those still show their content regardless of whether you are subscribed or not. So e.g. if you wanted to avoid politics most of the time then you could just not subscribe to any (or perhaps just avoid the largest and/or most contentious ones), and yet the News & Politics Topic is always there for you if you ever did want to access that subject matter, more rarely. Thus you can have your cake (no politics, in your Subscribed feed) and eat it too (yes politics, on demand).
Plus now we have the user customizable and shareable Feeds as well, allowing further refinement of that process (e.g. politics but specifically excluding !politics@lemmy.world?).
A third method of keeping updated with content - besides the feeds on your home page and Topics/user Feeds - is to click the bell icon besides the community name to always receive a notification for every single post from it. You can do this for pretty much anything btw - a community, a post, a user, a comment, and you can even use it to stop receiving notifications for things that on Lemmy you would have no choice but to - e.g. content of your own that you are tired of getting notifications for but people won’t stop pestering you about it.
I hope these examples offer some ideas how you might want to make full use of PieFed’s variety of methods of providing content. Obviously these are not the only ways to approach matters, and definitely do what works best for you, and maybe let us know how you are enjoying it from time to time!? 😄
Thanks. I actually come form mbin which has both a bell and a mute to either always get or stop getting something along the lines of the bell. I noticed some of what you said over the last day but thank you for laying it out in a more organized manner than my impromptu discoveries. plan to use this all week and get a better feel. since I was not on lemmy web its likely a bit more of a difference for me but so far there is a lot of promis. I especially like the nsfw options and the filter options that allow for things to show but fuzzy so that I can sorta be alerted to the content but will know its something im blech about. I also like the preview of body and now that I know how much can be done from feed with three dots I can do more from the feed itself which is nice. Its only been 24 hours for me, most of that sleeping, but this may become my main.
It’s definitely my main:-). It took me awhile to convert from the more Lemmy style of browsing All, to now a mixture of Subscribed and sometimes Topics/Feeds, but it has been very worth it:-).
Andrew already answered, but I thought I would add that while I used to block communities all the time on Lemmy, here I never do (I confirmed: I have zero communities currently blocked).
The reason is that I used to hunt through the All feed to find new content, and so I wanted to clean that up a bit by blocking communities that I would never be interested in. Whereas now, I go through the Subscribed feed and the individual Topic ones instead. Those still show their content regardless of whether you are subscribed or not. So e.g. if you wanted to avoid politics most of the time then you could just not subscribe to any (or perhaps just avoid the largest and/or most contentious ones), and yet the News & Politics Topic is always there for you if you ever did want to access that subject matter, more rarely. Thus you can have your cake (no politics, in your Subscribed feed) and eat it too (yes politics, on demand).
Plus now we have the user customizable and shareable Feeds as well, allowing further refinement of that process (e.g. politics but specifically excluding !politics@lemmy.world?).
A third method of keeping updated with content - besides the feeds on your home page and Topics/user Feeds - is to click the bell icon besides the community name to always receive a notification for every single post from it. You can do this for pretty much anything btw - a community, a post, a user, a comment, and you can even use it to stop receiving notifications for things that on Lemmy you would have no choice but to - e.g. content of your own that you are tired of getting notifications for but people won’t stop pestering you about it.
I hope these examples offer some ideas how you might want to make full use of PieFed’s variety of methods of providing content. Obviously these are not the only ways to approach matters, and definitely do what works best for you, and maybe let us know how you are enjoying it from time to time!? 😄
Thanks. I actually come form mbin which has both a bell and a mute to either always get or stop getting something along the lines of the bell. I noticed some of what you said over the last day but thank you for laying it out in a more organized manner than my impromptu discoveries. plan to use this all week and get a better feel. since I was not on lemmy web its likely a bit more of a difference for me but so far there is a lot of promis. I especially like the nsfw options and the filter options that allow for things to show but fuzzy so that I can sorta be alerted to the content but will know its something im blech about. I also like the preview of body and now that I know how much can be done from feed with three dots I can do more from the feed itself which is nice. Its only been 24 hours for me, most of that sleeping, but this may become my main.
It’s definitely my main:-). It took me awhile to convert from the more Lemmy style of browsing All, to now a mixture of Subscribed and sometimes Topics/Feeds, but it has been very worth it:-).