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.
You don’t have to — you can click “create post” at the top of the screen (if you’re using the web client at least) and select the community you want to post in. I agree that it’s pretty unintuitive that the “create a post” button only shows up under a community after you subscribe to that community though.
That’s odd, I’ve experimented with that function and only got communities I’m subscribed to as search results.
It might be that you’re on a smaller/newer instance, so your instance doesn’t know about many of the communities you’re not subscribed to.
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).
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)?
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.
But why subscribing to it at all? Sounds like 2 unnecessary steps.
That’s exactly what OC said too mate, they agree with you but suggested a temporary work-around
This was just a UI choice to only show one block button, you could open up a github issue on lemmy-ui for this.
Okay, I’ve created a feature request on github.
Sweet, thanks.
