New, Subscribed

New: There’s a limited enough amount of content presently being submitted in the areas that I’m interested in that I don’t feel the need to try to use votes to filter out things. It’s not impossible that I’d move to something that accounts for votes in the long run, but it’s not enough of a torrent yet.

Subscribed: I don’t believe that trying to view All and then blacklisting everything that you don’t want scales well. People can add communities all the time, and inevitably — there’s a huge amount of stuff out there — a lot of it isn’t stuff that I’m going to be interested in. It’s like trying to blacklist the Internet — means a constant game of whack-a-mole. Also, “All” will only see communities that are either local to your home instance or where another user on your home instance has already subscribed to things, so especially on smaller instances, you may never see something that you’re interested in that someone does create. I follow !newcommunities@lemmy.world, !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and hit https://lemmyverse.net/communities occasionally to find new communities of interest.