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.

  • Nora@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    leave .world and block the entire instance and then you get stuff that isn’t related to the United States it’s really nice actually

  • Delphia@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago
    
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 one
  • Caveman@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Use a filter and remove everything dedicated to US politics and Reddit to reduce the quantity by 80%

  • phanto@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Godzilla, Esperanto, tiny phones, vampires, the weird knife Wednesday guy, and way too many silly Linux memes. Homelab, self-host. That’s what Lemmy is to me! I mostly skip the politics, although I do like the odd privacy rant. Also, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, by Sara Wynn-Williams. That’s unrelated to anything, but I intend to include it in any comment I make until I read it.

  • parpol@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    If you switch to programming.dev most political stuff gets automatically filtered away unless you’re subscribed to it. Give it a try.

  • Zeppo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Okay, cool. You filtered it. People post and participate in those discussions because they want to for some reason. I you have something you’d prefer to discuss, go ahead and start a conversation.

  • wolfylow@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Man, I’m with you! A lot of people are commenting that you should just curate your feed - man, that means unsubscribing from news and politics. I mean there are a lot of other countries news I’m interested in seeing. And I already have an app that lets me filter out content based on keywords and my feed is still filled with US content.

    The amount of US content is just overwhelming and it’s freaking everywhere. I know I’m not alone in frankly having had enough of it.

    Can’t people post this stuff into dedicated US communities?

    • multifariace@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I haven’t figured out how to get mine to where I was on reddit back in the day. I struggle with finding communities. I often find dead communities. I often can’t find communities I’ve come across in the past when using the search to specifically find them. Any tips on how to solve this labyrinth?

    • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Join a different instance, there are ones that are more curated for different regions in the world. Lemmy.world is very US centric and essentially a carbon cut-out of reddit. Lots of redditors migrate there and try to maintain that type of culture on the instance, so they also got many of the most toxic complainers condensed from mass reddit exoduses.

      The fediverse is meant to be explored and it may take you a month or two to find where you like best.

  • DudeDudenson@lemmings.world
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    4 months ago

    Lemmy is a giant echo chamber, every time I browse for a bit I block a community/user or two. And don’t you dare have a differing political opinion to that of the hive mind.

    It’s not really a good reddit replacement but if like me you don’t want to install the official reddit app lemmy can be some sort of nicotine patch if you take the time to block all the shit you don’t want to see

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I’m mean there is no real downside to having and sharing an opinion outside the “hive mind”

      “Karma” on Lemmy isn’t tracked. Having a negative score comment or post doesn’t affect your account or experience at all. I’ve posted plenty that has gotten downvoted into the negative and I haven’t even gotten a warning because Lemmy is an actual free speech platform unlike twitter or Reddit.

      That doesn’t mean that everyone has to like your opinions though, hence the downvotes, but that’s ok.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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      4 months ago

      Calling Lemmy echo chamber is disingenuous there are only two things we all agree on it seems…

      Luigi did nothing wrong and Israel is doing genocide… Otherwise its a FFA of ideas… IMHO

  • thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Reddit was already mostly American politics, most of the people who came kept the same ratios. Personally I see more non American posts then ever on lemmy, it needs to grow. Post and spread it around

      • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        Besides the server hosting location there appears to be very little Dutch about it.

        But then again the Dutch politicians are known to kowtow America does. The Netherlands recently voted against the EU defense spending because they love NATO and the orange man so much.

      • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        Every instance has its ups and downs. Account age is of little value so I would say use your current account for a while and explore the different instances.

        You can also make different accounts on different instances with the same username. That practice is totally normal.

        Because .world is the biggest instance it tends to be the most Reddit like. Maybe try lemmy.sdf if you want a different more local experience.

  • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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    4 months ago

    2 reasons:

    1. Mods don’t seem to give a shit

    2. Lemmy has the exact same issues as Reddit, minus the corporate bullshit. Users do the same stupid shit. People don’t magically become not fucking stupid and horrible because they move from Reddit to the Fediverse.

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      Yes, lemmy still concentrates power in the hands of instance owners and their moderation delegates. This structures all discourse and communitiesin a certain way, discourage experimentation, alternate topics and viewpoints but instead focuses attention toward, for each topic, “the one big community” and its contingent idiosyncrasies.

      Only way around this is transparent multiserver communities and frictionless account and community server migration.

      Without this the same structure of power will always replicate itself.

        • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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          4 months ago

          That 15k big community, 5k dissidents and sub100 irrelevant.

          Actually that’s a clear demonstration of the system’s failure.

          There should be 2500 politics, not 3. And you shouldn’t need to post in 3 nor 2500 to reach the 20k people.

          This is because if you click on this /c/politics Which you can’t because it’s broken But if you could, you should see everything in every 3 or 2500 politics community.

          But you can’t. So if you want to be heard then the big community is the place you shpuld always post, unless your a dissident, in which case you will only have a 75% handicap and have to hope the dissidents don’t also hate because then it is game over.

          Btw multireddits dobt fux this, because there would only be 40 people that took the tine to setup an account multireddit of the 10 biggest ones. And 0 would add the 2500 politics communities.

          Frictionless migration of communities and users

          Subscription based, crowd source moderation (that everyone is expected to contribute to)

          And automatic aglomeration of all fediverse wide same name communities on /c/communityname

          Or bust

          And its going to bust, because that means instance owned ceding their structural power and tge moderator delegates ceding their systemic power

          Ain’t gonna happen

          Enjoy living in the farm!