It seems like no matter how I scroll I find bad news. I know lots of things are happening but I just want funny memes and interesting stories.
I used to be able to get this back in the day on the Reddit app feed, but here the all page is always just depressing stuff. Back then, there was news and stuff but like it felt more balanced in the all feed. I could get bad stuff but lots of interesting stuff too .
I find myself engaging less and less and just avoiding Lemmy more and more since I know the moment I open it I’ll get whacked with more depressing stuffs.
I don’t want politics or world news or really even memes about that stuff anymore. Heck even tech news is depressing. I just want simple scrolling of fun content. Idk it’s just hard to describe.
Does anyone else feel this way about their Lemmy experience?
I remember an old post about someone getting AM radio from their sink (probably from Reddit back in the day). That type of stuff is so much cooler than my feed.
To that end: any recommended active communities on Lemmy with that type of stuff?
Same as reddit: Subscribe to communities you like then only look at those.
Yes and no, since lemmy has a smaller user base certain type of content will have a much higher presence than reddit. And when 5 instances are all posting from the same source, that will saturate the platform.
If every new user immediately gets turned off by it, because curating your homepage is like step 2, then lemmy will continue struggling with retaining new users.
Lemmy doesn’t really have enough users for the same type of mindless only scrolling in communities you like from what I’ve seen. On reddit I’m subscribed to 2 drama subs Gentoo sub and a few others. There is enough content in that for me to just scroll that instead of all.
on the other hand here I find my subscriptions literally don’t get new posts. It’s fine I’m getting used to it but it means I’m using the all equivalent far more often.
Yeah it’s a shame. I still like it better than reddit but damn. Civilization 7 is coming out in a few days and I haven’t seen a single post.
Make one! I’m sure you’re not the only one here anticipating it. [email protected]
I use all a lot too but I still curate my subscriptions when I want a calmer experience (500+ subscriptions mind).
One trick is to sometimes sort by scaled which allows posts from less active communities to rise
I mainly browse through home page subscriptions. Occasionally I venture to all to find new subs, but I have a lot of subs blocked and keywords blocked for when I do.
Yeah, I had to step away from Lemmy for a while because I was feeling too doomer these days. I need to go sub to more comms I like and use the filter on my app, but I just haven’t yet. For now, I’ve switched to Loops to get my serotonin hit.
I think places like Lemmy are better suited for discussions and ofc ongoing events and politics are a huge part of that.
Have you tried 9gag and other more “lightweight” and meme oriented platforms?
This seems really pedantic. Recommending 9gag because someone does not want to see constant bad news is just a but out there.
Does anyone else feel this way about their Lemmy experience?
Yes. I usually stick to fandom communities where I post some cool fanart and chat about latest books I have read. I avoid all feed at all cost.
I hoped that [email protected] would be the same as r/[email protected] but the comments are night and day in there. I still repost stuff but a drive to make OC memes is just not there.
I usually hang out in [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]
P.S. Also my polish instance szmer.info doesn’t have as bad ALL feed as the lemmy.world due to people that don’t care about US politics and not subscribing to those communities.
Yeah lemmy has bit too much political content. Americans seem very obsessed with it. I just kept blocking all of them and now my feed is pretty free of political nonsense. If I want that kind of content i’ll just read the news paper or go to my news feed of choice
Unfortunately there’s almost nothing left once you’ve blocked all that. I’m close to leaving. No one will miss me, whatever. Occasionally I have a nice interaction though.
I’m in the same place. Avoiding politics is not only for my mental health.
In my case, for personal as well as professional reasons, I particularly need to avoid communities where advocating for political violence is tolerated (and in some even condoned.)
I blocked all the politics-specific or adjacent communities, but most of Lemmy seems to want everything to be about politics.
That’s way too toxic for me so I have to detach from Lemmy. I deleted my main account and I’m going to come back in a few months to see if it has calmed down.
Won’t argue with that, 70% is Linux and Politics combined. I do enjoy the “small scale forum” feel, but indeed after scrolling for 30 minutes you will probaly have consumed most of the content for the coming 48hours. After that, shamefully admitting, it’s back to reddit and tiktok.
I’ve been using as an impetus to pick up a book instead, or do something constructive. I get my shot of dopamine, but since it has an end I am forced to do other things.
To be fair, a large slice of the user base is in the US and currently everything is collapsing around us. It should come as no surprise that we complain about it a lot. The mods of various communities could certainly enforce rules more; e.g. in shitposting or memes, remove any political content. It would help the situation.
Lol than your country has been collapsing for the last 2+ years, cus it’s always dominated by politics on lemmy.
It’s a difficult balance to strike, since enforcing content also feels like going against the foss ethos… It’s tricky. But just keep promoting Lemmy and the fediverse and some day we will have a more balanced experience
I agree. And yes, the last 2+ years have been a political shit show, because we were scared shitless of what has now happened.
I asked a similar question about solutions to this. There is a tags feature coming that I’m really excited for that will really help. This will allow more robust filtering and customisation of your feed.
You can block alot of political content pretty easily through an inbuilt function
Pornography is never bad news. Normalize more pornography in your life
Block news subs.
Mind you, news subs are depressing right now for a reason.
Step 1: don’t browse the All feed. I dunno how Reddit was okay for you, visiting r/all was always full of Trump this Trump that every 5 minutes.
At least Reddit had a nice feature where you could filter out up to 100 communities from r/all. I could still get a varied experience while not having to look at things like politics, sportsball, or games I didn’t care for.
I’ve taken a bit of a different approach. I’ve been using a keyword filter to remove posts that contain any words I don’t care to read about. So no posts about trump, Elon, RFK, cyber trucks, etc.
I am not here to get that kind of news, I do that separately with the news sources I can trust and verify. Otherwise any tabloid or sensational opinion piece can potentially try to ruin my day all in the name of getting clicks
This is the way. I blocked keywords relating to Trump, Musk and the far right extremist party in my own country the other day and while some stuff still gets through it has made Lemmy significantly more pleasant to browse.
I can read about that stuff elsewhere if I really want to, but honestly I think we might not even be in this mess if the media didn’t amplify those voices every time they said or did something outrageous.
I implemented the filters using the Voyager app, but I think most Lemmy clients have similar options. On desktop my instance offers Tesseract which also allows filtering by keywords.
I do think it’s important to keep up to date. Even discounting the things I can’t control getting through my filters, there have been things that have directly affected my family and their jobs because of things Trump has done and I did not know about until after the fact. There is a line somewhere that you should be aware of, or else you may just be burying your head in the sand.
Separately, I use boost for Lemmy on android. Thank you for telling me about tesseract. I haven’t been as successful with any keyword filters in browser
On mastodon, I used word filters when my feed would be poisoned. Here on Lemmy these do not exist, I believe?
Otherwise I could e.g. block words like Trump and Musk, and only allow them in certain communities. That would make the experience possibly more nice.
I had to move from the mobile web page to an app to get key word filtering.
I read there’s an extension or something for word filters or you can use an app.
I filter out a bunch of words too…but it doesn’t work when people have generic titles. Half the meme communities are nothing but political slop despite (some of) their rules saying otherwise.
If Lemmy implemented tags like red had, then we can start flagging stuff so people can filter it.
I just block a lot of communities like that. It’s easy in the Voyager app to do this on Lemmy. I also have some filters set up for some of the common words that are used in the doom and gloom posts like what you’re talking about.
It helps out a lot to decrease a lot of the overly negative stuff.
If you find yourself wanting some of it back, maybe you could create a second account that you could log into as you feel it is needed? Voyager allows me to switch between accounts very easily. Or it did, I haven’t had a secondary account in some time, but I did have that function last time I needed it.
