I am still new to Lemmy and don’t understand some things.

One is: Why do I have to subscribe to a whole channel if I want to only write about one specific thing?

It just doesn’t make sense to me, because it will just pollute my timeline with stuff I really want to see. If I have an opinion on one thing, but will see everything about this topic in my timeline, the timeline will be useless after a few days.

Thanks for your help.

    • Cold Hotman
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      62 years ago

      That’s odd, I’ve experimented with that function and only got communities I’m subscribed to as search results.

        • Cold Hotman
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          42 years ago

          No, I’m sure they were federated to my home instance. I think I’ve even seen this with communities created locally by other users (they were newly created though).

    • maxmoonOP
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      12 years ago

      This is the most un-intuitive way to post something anywhere on the internet ever. Who came up with this idea and why? Because I think the developer might have a reason or it is just a bug.

      Wouldn’t it be better to show the “create post” button right beside the “subscribe” button in a group (without being subscribed to the group)?

  • @zksmk
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    62 years ago

    You can also unsubscribe from the community as soon as you’ve made the post. Agreed it’s unintuitive, but it’s a workaround that works for me.

  • Dessalines
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    32 years ago

    This was just a UI choice to only show one block button, you could open up a github issue on lemmy-ui for this.