I find the inclusion of every federated instance in ‘All’ fairly annoying. New tiny/niche/vanity instances get added by default when federated. There ends up being too much duplication and stuff I’m not interested in.

I’d much rather a system that only includes the local instance by default with a way to discover and add other instances.

My instance block list is long but there’s always new instances to block. For me, this a design flaw of the fediverse.

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 16 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Can't you just make the Local feed your default?

Personally I just subscribe to everything I want to see and browse that.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 hours ago

That's the answer right there. The lemmy personal customization is quite flexible. You can even make it behave like an old-school forum if you want.

[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The only problem with that is not seeing posts from other instances I don’t want to block.

Maybe it’s just me, but I’d prefer Subscribed to be personally curated communities, Local to be instance curated, and All to be a place to get a broader picture of, well, everything.

I’d just find it easier/more natural to opt-in to other instance content rather than opt-out.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

sorry I don't understand the difference that you're looking for

[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Yes. I want All to be just other instances that I’m interested in. Not every available (federated) instance.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

so you want to be able to subscribe to instances and have a new feed for the "Subscribed Instances" (as opposed to the existing Subscribed for communities)

not directly related, but have you looked at Feeds and Topics? https://piefed.social/feeds and https://piefed.social/topics

You can also follow remote feeds https://piefed.social/feed/add_remote

[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

No, I didn’t know about those. Thanks, I’ll check that out.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 3 hours ago

All those things are on the 'Explore' menu.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 9 hours ago

You can also create your own feeds

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 hours ago

The mislabled all feed isn't actually an all feed, but just posts from communities that you, or someone else on your instance has subscribed to.