I saw this post which is completly unrelated to me making this post btw.
The way you sync communities makes a lot of sense when you only want to subscribe to certain communities, but when you want to see what’s going on lemmy it’s bad. When I scroll through all can’t shake the feeling that I could be not seeing some interesting posts. This is not only a problem that small instances have. I checked lemmy.ml and it had some posts missing from all: new that we can see. But this could also be because of defederating.
This problem is even worse with nsfw communities. They don’t show up when not logged in, so looking on other instances is useless. And the community search site in the sidebar doesn’t work well and doesn’t show nsfw, although lemmyverse.net works fine.
So what I’m saying is who on this instance is going to subcribe to furry porn, jk
Yeah, I feel that content on all is not really showing up as much as I expect. Why that is, structurally, I don’t know, and hope it will change over time.
Though I am incredibly grateful that NSFW is filtered out. I don’t need porn or gore in my feed (I think it’s a setting I checked when I made my account).
I don’t think the instance is doing anything unusual. We are federated with a lot of instances and I don’t think any are blocked.
In the meantime, maybe stepping back a little from endless feeds is a good thing. I am trying to read more books again. Right now I’m on a Jared Diamond kick.