Very valid point here. I've forgotten what an unfiltered Lemmy would look like at this point. Even with a filtered list, I just scrolled through my usual All, Top 6 Hours and didn't find a thing I wanted to read as it was all depressing news for the first 3 pages.
The critique about one community dominating is a good one also. I block just about all the meme comms, but I leave the Science Memes one unblocked because there are a few I enjoy, but there are days where it's just my whole front page and it's like, give someone else a chance guys!
Didn't Reddit have a "welcome pack" of pre-subscribbed subs like Blaze mentions in their reply? It might be nice if the main site or some of the app developers would have welcome packs so when you installed you could select a "Tech," "Humor," "Science and Nature," etc starter pack of subscribed comms to get you into it, and then you can adjust as you see fit. I'm thinking when we came on board, there wasn't as much we had to block at first so we could do it a bit at a time.
I'm not sure how NSFW is handled now. I have most of it blocked because if that's what you want, I'm not sure why you'd come here to it when the rest of the internet is right there, but I agree again with your point. I'm pretty open minded, but there is a lot available here that while I don't feel it shouldn't exist, I don't feel the need to be exposed to that much of fringe fetishes that aren't my thing! 😆
If NSFW started off hidden and you could either click an "I'm All In" setting to unleash it all, or just have access to a comm list and you can uncheck what you see fit, that might be more useful to most people than the all or nothing we have now.
Also, while I'm talking about it, I'd be welcome to some more granularity is the NSFW, like the perennial NSFW vs NSFL (life) where we split up things like porn and gore, or even medical gore vs violent imagery, etc. I'd be interested in some of the medical stuff, and even in Superbowl, there's medical things I'd be up to share and educate about that the general subscriber base isn't going to want to see there, but is animal rescue/rehab related. If that was something people could leave on or turn off, the same community could serve 2 overlapping audiences without making a seperate group.