How often do you turn federation off? (kbin.social)

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The title. How often do you turn off federation and only scroll through kbin threads and magazines?

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[-] retronautickz@fedi196.gay 12 points 1 year ago

I never turn it off

[-] 10A@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

I leave it on, and it hasn't occurred to me to try turning it off. I'm not sure why I'd want it off.

[-] sectorfour@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

The worst part of Reddit for me were the redditors. It was better 10 years ago when it was much smaller. I leave my federation off to avoid the noise of every other instance and enjoy the smaller community.

[-] brownpaperbag@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

I have it off by default and turn it on when I want some other content.

[-] shatteredsteel@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Same here.

I leave it off so that I end up with less duplicates in my feed. I got tired of seeing the same exact articles / posts clogging up my feed from 20 different instances. The only time I go out of kbins instance is for askelectronics really.

[-] mrbitterness@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Same.

[-] Noki@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

70% off , if I want to see more I turn it on or switch to calckey.

[-] a_mac_and_con@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

To the left of the gear symbol which is your settings is the federation icon. Click on that and the Federation menu with the status (On | Off) will show up.

[-] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

I know how ... I was wondering how often people use it. Do they leave it off? Leave it on? Switch ... if so, how often.

[-] a_mac_and_con@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Oh, I'm sorry. My brain passed over the "often". My bad.

I haven't turned it off at all yet.

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I misread it the same way!

[-] a_mac_and_con@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sometimes brains be that way!

To be honest, I would like some sort of notation on posts to let me know when I'm clicking on something from a different instance. I always have to check it after the fact. Most of the time I don't think it matters to much (to me), but with my swiss cheese brain I can get confused in threads which start talking about kbin/lemmy differences.

Edit: ah, might just be a glitch on mobile. I moved to my computer and there actually is the text telling me where it's from.

[-] chamim@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't either, I enjoy the federated aspect and follow quite a few lemmy communities.

[-] 0xtero@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I've never turned it off

[-] DerisionConsulting@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Always off, all the time.

[-] Saturdaycat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I usually start off then turn it on when I see familiar old posts

[-] Cloudless@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I want to keep federation on but block everything from lemmy.ml or lemmygrad.ml

[-] Grimlo9ic@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not sure if you already know how, but just in case you haven't yet:

https://kbin.social/d/lemmy.ml

https://kbin.social/d/lemmygrad.ml

Navigate to these 2 URLs and block the entire domain from the sidebar.

[-] gentleman@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@Grimlo9ic I'm going to try this - thank you

@readbeanicecream @Cloudless

[-] dedale@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I rarely turn it off, but I'd love to get granular control over which instances appear in my feed.

[-] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@dedale for that I just block the magazine or group directly

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