My feeds seem very focused on hard information be it Gaza, tech companies doing bad things, or people pitchforking about the lastest big bad in digital privacy. This is all well and good, but it does get a bit tired after a while. Seeing the samey stuff post after post by academic types makes me more informed but also mentally draining.

Where's the fun? On Facebook and Instagram I see light fluffy popcorn type posts of people reminiscing over Nintendo games or reels of cockatiels being cockatiels. It's fun to scroll and interact. Here it feels like I'm in a classroom, and people, while friendly, do get quite hostile if you don't like Linux or Star Trek.

As a leftist I like it here because it's my bubble of people, but I'd like to see the fedi let its hair down a bit. It's okay to talk about stuff other than infosec, privacy guides, distros, and Gaza.

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 151 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Reddit began in a similar way - being very tech focused until it started to become much more mainstream.

Block instances which have nothing you want (foreign languages, for me)

Block communities spamming gaza / war / techbro

I like to browse new across all instances, and block rather than only view subscriptions

[–] GONADS125@feddit.de 13 points 7 months ago

I have the same approach of browsing all and blocking what I don't want as I come across it. Which in my case, happens to be mostly anime and shitposting communities.

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