What I don’t miss from reddit is the bot comments. Not the novelty bots that reply if your comment is in alphabetical order or something like that, but actual chat gpt responses to regular posts or comments.
I have no idea what the point of them is, but they’re awful.
Premium, aka so slippery it immediately goes in a case.
Same, except I just look at all local communities. All communities lemmy wide ends up having too many duplicates.
Imagine skipping from 1920 to 2020…
Honestly I don’t even bother subscribing to comminuted. Communities for me are opt-out via muting rather than opt-in via subscriptions. I still see posts from the news community even though I have several Gaza keywords filtered out.
I recommend some keyword filters. I use them to reduce certain topics from my feed, specifically about certain wars or politicians or celebrities. I did the same thing on reddit to filter out some of the “awareness” campaigns where everyone posted about the FCC chair to every single sub.
I also just browse local communities instead of the entire fediverse. This defeats the purpose of the fediverse, but it drastically reduces the number of duplicate and NSFW communities. I then mute the communities I don’t want to see. I’ll also mute the hyper specific communities that usually have complete overlap with the more general community, i.e. dogs and dogpictures.
It takes some work to get your feed to your liking, but it’s worth it in the end. There’s still far less content available than on reddit, but the amount of quality content feels similar.
The biggest “bloat” issue for me was going from pixel to Samsung. I was able to configure apps and launchers the way I liked just fine, but the Samsung specific version of all the main apps (internet browser, calculator, etc.) was unexpected. There are plenty of Google bloat apps that I have to disable on a new pixel, though.
Macrofactor is an excellent nutrition tracking app. You track your weight and your intake, set a weight goal (gain, lose, or maintain) and a goal rate of weight change, and it sets your calorie targets from there. The app isn’t free, but there is a free trial period as well as a few different payment options.
I quit using it over the holidays due to too many outings and events, but I’ll be getting back to it next week. I highly recommend checking it out.
Deleting nonsense suggestions is helpful. Or deleting actual words that you rarely use. For example, swipe often will type “slay” instead of “also”, so I just delete slay from the dictionary.
This is what happens when I long pressed on my own comment to collapse it. I’m asking to have the comment that I long press also have its comment body hidden. Is that a setting somewhere?
Edit: It’s a toggle option in settings, search for “collapse”.
Related, collapsing the parent comment as well, not just the children.
I’m using a lemmy world account and browsing local on lemmy world. I have /c/apple filtered, but I still see a post from it in my local feed. There are other communities that I have filtered that are showing up in my local feed as well.
Correct, it doesn’t seem like any community filters are applying, new or old.
Not op, but I’m also having the same issue. Here’s my filters https://ibb.co/r05JMXM
That’s great, I’ll give it a try! Thank you. Edit: This is so much better than jerboa it’s not even funny.
I haven’t used sync, but content filtering was one of my favorite features on boost. I had filters like “opinion” to reduce the amount of opinion pieces on news subs.
Was that recent? I use Firefox exclusively and haven’t had those issues.
For anyone else wondering, they’re backed up meaning there’s a wait before you can start using it. I just signed up and it ended with a message that basically says “you’re in line!”
IMessage on android will be amazing, I’m excited to try it out.
What’s the point of those types of bots, though? I guess they’re just trying to have vaguely genuine looking accounts to use for some future purpose, maybe political or advertising related.