Asking this here because it might be a strange question or open for debate.
A habit that I have carried over with me from Reddit is subscribing to every community that I think I’ll be participating in. But I’m kinda thinking of unsubbing from all of the news and politics communities that are always in the ‘All’ tab anyway and keeping my subscriptions to everything other than news and politics. I’d still like to throw in hot takes / shit takes if I feel so inclined but want to seperate it from my main feed.
My question is, is it frowned upon to participate somewhere that you’re not subscribed to if it’s not going to be once in a blue moon? Or a hassle for moderators? I’ve looked up if there’s a Lemmy equivalent of multireddits and from what I can surmise in this Github thread, people are still spitballing ideas but nothing concrete yet. So it seems that method is out of the question for now.
Edit: just had another thought that I don’t want to make another thread about but need to get off my mind. From an app perspective and the Subscribed / Local / All tabs, and comparing that to a place like Bluesky with all the different feeds that you can add or remove, it would be nice if you could have tabs that are specific to instances. For example adding a Blåhaj tab from here in the .world instance I’m signed up on. Basically accessing the ‘Local’ feeds of other instances from one place.
As for participating in communities you’re not subscribed to, I think Lemmy is still small enough that, for better or for worse, expect everyone to feel free to comment on everything whether subscribed or not.
I’d like to see us start respecting niche spaces a bit more (for example there’s a lot of AI hate on here, I don’t enjoy AI art either, but I think it’s rude to downvote AI art when it crosses your feed if it’s posted in an AI-art-specific community).
Don’t think there’s a solution similar to multi-reddit yet but as a kbin.social refugee kbin did a good job of linking posts sharing the same news story into one entry which was helpful at reducing clutter. I know there are a couple live instances of kbin still going (kbin.earth is the one I see most if you’re curious).
I think your choice to limit news subscriptions is probably a wise move for your sanity and no one will care about your subscription status if you comment on a news story from all.
I’m fully onboard with this. I’ve noticed that Lemmy is also still small enough for these niche communities to show up in the ‘All’ tab, which I guess makes them more susceptible to people that can’t just keep scrolling if they don’t like it. Which is my general philosophy on social media, if you’re not interested, just keep scrolling.