I’m struggling to curate my experience on Lemmy. Some posts constantly dominate my feed, even after resorting various ways.
Is there a way to ignore or hide posts? 🙏
I could be crazy, but it seems like pinned posts are pinned on my main feed just as as they are pinned within a community.
I do not necessarily wish to ignore entire communities in this case (which I know how to do). I am talking about individual posts.
Using the Jerboa app has helped because posts can be shown in a condensed form rather than the large cards. And yet still so much scrolling to see anything new…
I’ve been noticing that as well, I’ve been sorting by All, New each time and Jerboar gives me updated posts, but default seems to be the pinned posts in my instance
Exactly. This comment sheds light on the types of pinned posts. I didn’t realize there was a sight wide pin capability.
I think Pinned posts do stay pinned at the top of your main feed, although I think there are actually a couple of different types of pins that admins can use that behave differently - a community pin and a sitewide pin - and because of all the traffic they’ve been making use of the sitewide pins more often than they probably would otherwise.
Do you know which sorting method you’re using on the main feed? I’ve found that “activity” sort tends to keep the same few posts at the top (under the pins) because active threads tend to stay active for a while, so they keep getting bumped to the top. I’ve had more success seeing a variety of posts with the “hot” sort which uses post time and vote score to order posts. There’s some more info about how the different sort methods work here.
If you’re finding that your main feed keeps resetting to a different sort than you want, there’s a default sort setting in your user settings that you may need to change. I’ve had issues with Jerboa not obeying that setting and just defaulting to ‘activity’ sort so if you’re using that app that might be something to watch for.
I have no idea that there was such thing as a sitewide pin post. That’s not something I normally see and it would explain why some posts simply won’t ever ever go away.
Did I mention that I really wish I could ignore / hide posts? 😁
Until I have a subscription feed that I can curate with enough content, I’m relying on viewing all posts. Jerboa seems to obey top 24 hours for me, which is good.
I would like to sort by activity, but unless I can ignore or hide posts, some things (e.g. the site pins) never go away and that drives me nuts.
Also strange is that when I set my default filter in the Lemmy / beehaw settings, the front page doesn’t obey. This is only a problem on the mobile browser though since Jerboa seems to have an override that remains set.
That’s interesting, I have the opposite problem in that Jerboa doesn’t seem to want to obey my global default sort, but I don’t have any issues with the site forgetting it.
I do agree that it would be nice to have an option to hide posts. It looks like there is a similar feature request on the lemmy-ui repo but I don’t know when they’ll get around to it.
Good point. I’m looking at the issues related to this both on the front and back end. Looks like “MarkAsRead” was added to the BE at the end of 2021 and a PR is currently in the works for the FE. This would be perfect timing. 😁
I didn’t look at the code yet because I’m on my phone. I’m curious if it can hide site wide pins as well, which was specifically referenced.
I’m having issues with it too. I think the massively increased load must be causing the interface to misbehave. Nothing like finding all the bugs when volume is high. fun!
Anyway, I tried yesterday to find a post/thread that I’d commented in. No amount of sorting in that community was bringing it up. I could only find it by following the comment link in my profile. So right now, I have the feeling that I’m missing a good bit of content while also seeing older popular content still dominating my feed. I’m hopeful that they’ve noticed these issues and will see how they can rectify them eventually.
I’m glad to know that I’m not insane. I was actually getting pretty frustrated thinking that I just wasn’t able to understand something basic.
This comment sheds light on the types of pinned posts. I didn’t realize there was a sight wide pin capability. I think this has been the biggest source of my madness.
I don’t have a fancy phone with huge resolution and DPI. This means a lot of scrolling for me. I really really really really really really really really really really really wish I could hide/ignore posts
Regarding your searches, it wasn’t immediately obvious to me via the mobile browser interface, but you should be able to search here: https://beehaw.org/search
Unfortunately, if you’re using the Jerboa app, I don’t see the post search capability yet.
I’m glad to know that I’m not insane. I was actually getting pretty frustrated thinking that I just wasn’t able to understand something basic.
This comment sheds light on the types of pinned posts. I didn’t realize there was a sight wide pin capability. I think this has been the biggest source of my madness.
I don’t have a fancy phone with huge resolution and DPI. I really really really really really really really really really really really wish I could hide/ignore posts
Regarding your searches, it wasn’t immediately obvious to me via the mobile browser interface, but you should be able to search here: https://beehaw.org/search
Unfortunately, if you’re using the Jerboa app, I don’t see the post search capability yet.
