Do you know how much data is put onto the local device when subscribing to all these communities? Ballpark is it in the MBs? GBs?

Trying to determine whether discovering things I don’t want is worth it

Yep you’re right. And I’ve discovered that, in order to see posts from a community, at least one user in your instance needs to be subscribed to a community to view it.

Would be nice if someday the browse functionality provided by some sites was integrated into Lemmy but for now I had to go through and manually subscribe to a bunch of things.

I’d use a scraper but there’s a lot of content I don’t care to see right now, and I’m assuming subscribing comes with a small storage cost, so may as well avoid it for now