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Lemmy needs serverside hide features for posts and for communities or I’ll never find real interesting communities hiding on the 10th page of top feeds. This lack of functionality could cause the top feeds to stay trash permanently and drive away users. Especially when new apps are constantly appearing, client side hides are more or less useless as I switch between apps.

Reddit post hide features are fairly performant because they quietly expire after some period of time. They stay in your “hidden” list but actually will start showing in the results again if somehow that content is still visible. You can see this on super slow or abandoned subreddits if you hide every and come back a month later.

Reddit community blocking features have always sucked with the serverside limit of 100. Seems even more dire in Lemmy when the same shitposting communities spring up on different hosts

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The way I used Reddit was to do exactly this, but also with the extra step to heavily curate All and Poular by blocking communities that came up all the time that I had no plans to subscribe to. This turned my version of All and Popular into a feed of mostly communities I’ve never seen before and not just a wall of meme spam

The solution turned out to be that wefwef is missing the block community feature so I now have my exact workflow over on Memmy

[–] czer0_ 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"The way I used Reddit" a gentle reminder friendo that this is not reddit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see nothing wrong with taking good, useful features from Reddit and making them available. It won't make Lemmy Reddit, it just makes Lemmy better.

[–] czer0_ -2 points 1 year ago

If you want reddit go back to reddit.