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Probably a similar amount, it’ll just take time I guess before all the stuff I want to see is getting posted enough. I have a separate acct specifically for lemmynsfw, on this acct I actually don’t see any nsfw stuff. The problem is that my Subscribed list feels too barren, there’s not enough stuff getting posted or maybe I haven’t found all the communities I might be interested in. So I sort by All, which has quite a bit of stuff I’m not interested in at all, so I block that stuff. Eventually I’m assuming the two lines will cross paths and I can just switch over to my Subscribed list full-time. Until then I’ll just have to fight through waves of concerning porn until I can find my totally vanilla deviancies.
My preferred way to browse (even when I was on reddit) is to ignore subscriptions entirely, always browse All, and just block communities that regularly post content I'm not interested in. Once enough things are blocked it starts being pretty much all stuff I want to see.
I am subscribed to a lot of communities on Lemmy, but I might as well not be for how often I swap from All to Subscribed. For all the years I used reddit I only ever subscribed to like 3 subreddits.
On Reddit, I found myself swapping back and forth all the time. Sometimes I want hyper-specific content just related to the things I’m interested in, just because some of that stuff is so niche it’d never show up in r/all. But then other times I’d want to see what was going on with the broader Reddit “society”, what new drama was afoot or what new weird-ass trend had people started latching onto. I liked having a clear division between the two and specifically didn’t subscribe to subreddits that regularly showed up in r/all. I rarely blocked anything except for users whom I specifically hated their stuff.
On lemmy I pretty much have to do All by default, that’s the only way to do it if I want to see new stuff at all.
Until somebody on the instance subscribes to a community it doesn't get federated to an instance. Browsing by all is in effect saying let the others on my same host do the work of finding my communities and then trying to cull out the parts you don't like.
I do understand that's how it works, but considering I'm on the largest instance I'm not really sure that matters for me. Definitely worth keeping in mind for people on smaller instances though, or people interested in very small communities.
For what it's worth, I am subscribed to 55 communities, from back when I was giving the Subscribed page a shot.
An option to search only communities that aren't yet federated to your instance may be an interesting feature to add in the future.