• BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Can some people who are willing to post something other than American politics and Reddit bashing posts join lemmy soon, I’m sick of my entire feed being nothing but all these negative topics

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      17 hours ago

      You could either block a few communities or make your following feed your main one. I prefer the first case as it allow community with less trafic to reach the top of the page.

      There is a lot animal pictures, some fantasy genre conversation and plenty of renewable energie discussion somewhere hidden behind the very detailled and commented biographie of the trump/musk duo.

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        1 day ago

        For those of us using Firefox there was a post on [email protected] on how you can use uBlock Origin to create word filters.

        To do so, open up the uBlock Origin dashboard, go to the ‘My filters’ tab, and add this filter:

        lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)
        

        For example:

        lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk|nazi/i)  
        
      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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        22 hours ago

        You can also block certain users who post in a certain way.

        Feel free to practice blocking users on me.

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      1 day ago

      I think Lemmy is a bit too complicated to attract the kind of light-hearted users that made Reddit shine. It’s daunting unless you have nowhere else to go.

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      I had a discussion the other day, where people were not happy with lemmy instances not handing data over to google. They argument was that we should do everything so lemmy can be found more easily, as the only goal is to “win” against reddit.

      Unfortunately in that discussion people were not interested in using Lemmy and the Fediverse at large to create a positive vision of the internet. They just wanted to stick it to one corporation they don’t like. I don’t like reddit either, but i think we should thrive for a Fediverse that upholds decentralization, open source and non commercialization of social interactions. All the large Internet corporations want to create the opposite and have been quite successful so far.

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        19 hours ago

        I agree with you. It’s short sighted to give in to a separate corporation to “beat” the first. The only way to beat Reddit is to stop using it and forget about it.

        The goal should be to remove the ability for a single entity to control the public flow of discourse.

        I’m off to buy a Lemmy sticker to put on my thinkpad