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.
Do you mean to tell me you don’t also have a bunch of Linux memes?
Have you tried filtering the home page? I’m very new to Lemmy so my advice may not be the best, but on the home page (I’m’ using lemmyusa), there is a “Location” option and I changed it from “All” to “Subscriptions”. This way I only get the sub communities I’ve subscribed to.
I have not found a way to hide a sub community (i.e. hide “politics” or something) from the main feed.
If someone with more experience with Lemmy can sherd some additional advice for focusing content I would appreciate it!
Try another planet which is not on fire, sorry for going all political on you!
They’ll surprise-pikachu when WWlll starts and they don’t know how we got there.
Capitalism
Sounds like you gave up. Sorry can’t do that.
Give up is my middle name Fuck “give up” That McGee the 3rd
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.
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 block the news and politics communities. That helps tremendously
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.
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
Or join an instance they don’t like and they curate themselves for you. :)
Are you talking about Lemmy.world, or Lemmy.ml? Either way, I’d say to look for an instance that more appeals to you.
Why is it always you two,jpeg
Normal people don’t give a shit about Lemmy. If you want to dive into hobbies, local news and other fun stuff - go to Reddit :)
Joined 3 months ago. 0 posts, 63 comments. This says a lot about your type of user.
*post stuff about hobbies, local news and other fun stuff to Lemmy so those communities grow
Gardening on Reddit has 7.8m subs, that’s more than the whole Fediverse with all the bots.
Another issue is the quality of people. For example, I’m into kitchen knives. Dr. Larrin posts on Reddit about steels and related metallurgy. Does he post on Lemmy? No. Stroppy Stuff posts on Reddit about strops and sharpening. Does he post on Lemmy? No.
I’m also into mountain biking. Reddit is full of engineers, brand representatives and athletes, none of them is on Lemmy.
No one worth their salt gives a shit about Lemmy, that’s the hard truth. If you want to get quality hobby content - you go to Reddit.
Lemmy is for 15yo kids posting memes and US politics for those who got banned on Reddit. And for some devs to satiate their curiosity.
Of course a lot of niche topics are going to be more popular on Reddit, everybody is aware of that.
What people try to do by using and making this platform grow is to offer an alternative to Reddit, especially now that they ban people based on upvotes.
You seem to have a very negative opinion of the whole platform. If you dislike it so much here, why not just leave and just use Reddit? And that’s really okay if people leave, that’s part of the network effect.
On the other hand some people will like it and start communities like [email protected] or [email protected]
As others have said: filter filter filter. Lemmy is small enough still that you can massively curate by blocking communities and even users where you don’t like what they post.
Did you try subscribing to your interests?
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Lemmy is an echo chamber.
