I came to Lemmy cause Reddit went to shit, so I get that people want to bash it and I also understand that most of the users of Lemmy are from the US and the shit show that’s happening there right now, but I am absolutely tired of these 2 types of posts being the only thing in my feed, I open this app because I want to learn new interesting things, and maybe see some funny and creative stuff, there’s enough negativity and stress in my life and I don’t need more of that on my only social media app. How do I filter these topics from my feed and which communities can I join to improve my feed.
What I think you need to do is have multiple accounts, I have one with a LOT of filters. "Trump, Drumpf, Trumpist, MAGA, Elon, Musk, Tesla, Rep, Republican " you get the idea. Any community I have no interest in blocked, plenty of users who go into benign subs and bring up politics blocked... Its my relaxing feed. NSFW filter on I have one with the only filter being the nsfw one. I see the whole disaster. I have one on Lemmy.nsfw... for reasons. Filter by local... I have oneI have two feeds: one is “subscribed” for all the stuff I’m actually interested in, and the other is “all”, for when I’m up for a bit of US politics, Reddit-bashing and weird German memes…
Clearly you don’t frequent the NSFW forums
Use a filter and remove everything dedicated to US politics and Reddit to reduce the quantity by 80%
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Hey OP, I just want to say from experience the reddit bashing usually dies down a bit after a quick spike of reddit refugees like we’re seeing now.
I was kind of hoping for more Western African culture, news and discussion from this Mali-based server.
Well there’s some lovely anti-imperialist coups going on in West Africa recently, here please read these 30 news articles about Burkino Fa
I know - it’s exhausting.
All social and news streams are absolutely being flooded by American politics right now. It’s mad and crazy stuff, but there’s only so much someone can take before it really starts to affect ones mental state.
And Lemmy partially started as a not-reddit, so I guess it’s normal that people come to vent.
So - positive stuff you can do!
Subscribe to more communities that do interest you. Leave less space for the other stuff to come in. You can also block communities from your main feed very easily if you’re being given stuff you don’t want from them.
Youtube (with adblock) is hardly affected (or if it is, I don’t see it). That brings lots of interesting and creative content.
Going out into the world if you’re able. Reconnecting with nature, and also being reminded that people, by and large, are usually nice to you if you’re nice to them.
And I’ve been picking up old games and playing them more. Escapism is not such a bad thing.
I use the frontend called tesseract on my computer and block keywords “trump” “elon” “washington” “musk” “republicans” “democrats” and then I judiciously block communities that make it to all with stuff I don’t care about like European boycotts and pretty much anything about Canada.
The majority of folk that migrated from Reddit probably did so because of reasons related to those two things.
The earliest exoduses were socialist political communities banned from reddit (particularly /r/chapotraphouse who formed Hexbear, and /r/GenZedong who landed in Lemmygrad). Then, the most recent exodus is related to censorship related to Luigi Mangione, a US political issue, coinciding with a strong sudden re-emergence of global anti-American [government] sentiment due to diplomatic catastrophes with a range of former allies.
In fact, the founders cite reddit’s corporate nature and its pro-US-imperialist, racist stances as their motivation to create Lemmy: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/07-history-of-lemmy.html
So I’m not surprised at all that the default feed is covered in political topics, it’s always been a strong topic here and it’s just gotten stronger. But there’s probably enough activity now that one can filter it out and still have enough action to keep it fun.
Those are the most popular posts. I recommend trying to find communities that you like and subscribing to them, then read the subscribed feed.
I recommend finding communities you don’t like and blocking those, then browse the all feed. Otherwise you get 3 posts a week.
That’s not true. I’ve got a pretty active feed of subs, you just need to spend time curating a good list
There hasn’t been a post in /sailing in 2 years. Depends what you’re looking for I guess.
Sucks for you if your only interest is sailing.
No, for real: I have subscribed to over 100 communities and my “subscribed” feed is always full of stuff.
Lemmy is definitely rough if you’re into niche communities, true. So was Reddit in its early years though, to be fair.
“To Be Fahr.”
i did that and my feed is still filled with politics there are so many to block its neverending
I feel the same same way about Linux posts and pervy anime. Blocking communities is how lemmy dispenses dopamine.
There’s also “hide this post” and “hide all viewed posts” but you have to actually click on them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don’t see much of that stuff. I mostly subscribe to foss communities and I mostly see relevant stuff about foss and tech. Subscribe to communities pertaining to your hobbies/interests and your feed should reflect that
And block the ones that are filled with content you don’t want. I’ve spent the last six months or so fine tuning my feed and see lots of stuff that’s interesting to me and very little that I don’t want.
How to use Ublock Origin to filter keywords out
Also you can block certain instances/communities/users. You can practice blocking users on me first!
Sort by “hot” instead of active.
I’m starting to see that most Canadians are more interested in american politics than in their own countries politics. When a gigantic behemoth is wounded, and about to fall, you get a lot of rubberneckers. Sadly, I include myself in this list.
As a Canadian, I engage more with American politics online because more online content is American politics than Canadian.
Would you like to discuss the failure of the liberal party to deliver on promised electoral reform?
I’m not terribly interested in electoral reform personally. It’d be nice but not at the top of my list.
I feel like we always have been - the Trudeau Sr. quote comes to mind:
Living next to you [The U.S.] is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
Only more so now that said beast is trumpeting, stomping its feet and shitting everywhere.
If it’s falling towards you, it is indeed good to pay attention to that. Also, please accept my apologies that our bullshit is spilling over the line.
