It would be so much easier if instance blocking was working for me, I have had to block any lammynsfw community manually when they show up, despite having added lemmynsfw.com to the block list...
Same, I used to also do this on reddit with boost but once third party apps were banned I quit reddit. I saw some really gruesome stuff in r/all though...
All because I like seeing more than just what I subscribe to.
How else would I see a bunch of news article headlines that I'll never read the actual article of but still make a comment on purely based on the article headline? /s
I usually start with subscribed, and when I run out of new content I switch to all and it reminds me why I prefer to stick with subscribed as a default.
I use subscribed first and then once I have looked at the new things under my subscribed feed I switch to all and top either today or top in past 12 hours
Edit: In fact, all top today is how I found this post to begin with. Otherwise, I would not have seen it.
I am still relatively new to Lemmy, so I view New All so I can catch any new communities that I want to subscribe to. Once my list get sufficiently diverse I will switch to New Subscribed.
I'm only subscribed to about 10 small communities, where it's stuff that I love but the communities are small enough that they don't really reach my all feed.
And the way I browse all is that I'm always blocking communities that really don't interest me so over time I only see stuff I like.
im a kbinner but basically same. I do subscribed new since its pretty currated and I keep up with it and then if I have time all hot and finally all new if I have loads of time.
Subscribed only for me. I can't imagine the amount of politics, drama, porn and other stuff that's on the all feed which I don't want to see.
I'd like to thank all the "all browsers" that see something they don't like on "all", but ignore it and move on with their life.
For whenever reason there's people out there that browse by "all", but downvote stuff they don't like. And then make huge ranty posts about how Lemmy is full of toxicity, furry porn, politics, anime or whatever.
Surprisingly less porn than you'd imagine. Though I go a different way, I browse all (because of FOMO) but block communities that post stuff I don't want to see. Now I have a very tailored all feed that also includes new stuff I might not have known about to subscribe to.
This is the way to go. I encourage everyone to block users too. Lots of them. It really does affect your experience of the site. I sometimes scroll thru the comments of some controversial topic only to find the most extreme commentors that bring nothing of a value to the conversation just so that I can pre-emptively block them. I'd say that 3 times out of 4 when I log out to see a comment that a blocked user wrote I just find that I did the right decision.
Subscribed and if I want more after that then I go check all too but that basically means subscribed + memes as I have blocked around 400 communities that I'm not interested about.
Usually All. I started that way to find more communities to sub but then got in the habit. Even with a healthy list of subs I still feel a bit limited on subscribed, see more activity on all.
I view all, sorted by Newest Comment and then sort the comments by New. I really only subscribe to things to get them federated with my instance (so many communities on other instances, I am literally the only one on my own instance subscribed to them so they don't show up on my feed at all before I find them) and to be able to quickly see a specific community by itself, if I so desire.