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What's your filter settings on Lemmy? I feel like I miss the big posts and such. (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by Sev@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Been loving the fed, but the past few days i'm wondering if my setup is wrong on this site?

Unspecified and English are my language settings in the account config.

I tend to go with Hot and check Top Day on All. I also am a heavy hider - once I open an image, check comments that post is gone [which I prefer, I don't ever dip back, unless I get a reply]

I have the big meme communities blocked so that's a massive chunk of content I'm missing out on, not that i'm complaining; it was too dominant.

Despite my local instance only being defedded with one community, I feel like i'm really not getting All on my....All.

Is it better to subscribe to stuff and set Subscribed to my default feed instead?

Thanks, hopefully i've not buggered something up

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[–] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I tried searching a Titanic sub on my UK instance, and it didn’t show up. But it was deffo still there on my L.W search? What?

Ah, I learned that there's a trick to this specific situation. If a community hasn't been subscribed to by anyone on your instance yet, it will not show up in results when you first search for it (search by URL or !link by the way). However, wait a few seconds and hit search again - the community will now show up and you can subscribe to it! What apparently happens is that your server is not yet aware of that community, but once you search for it with a URL or !link, your server will immediately search it out and become aware of it. This is why it's usually better to search for communities on one of the big Fediverse directory sites, especially if you're on an instance with fewer people in it. My favorite site for this at the moment is https://lemmyverse.net/communities - it will show both the URL and !link right there and allow you to easily copy it to search on your instance.

[–] Christopher@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Valuable! Have some Lemmy gold! 🥇

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