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I noticed that too. Iβm American but donβt give a shit about politics because itβs just too upsetting.
Go to the communities posting about it and click the 3 dots in the upper right hand corner and block the sub. I had to do this over the course of about 2 days while subbing to ones I enjoyed.
Still learning how to navigate this site and find communities I enjoy, but for the most part Iβm not seeing the politics anymore. Hope this helps at least a little
Thank you for sharing!
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca can help to discover active communities as well
Sweet thanks!
The key is that you need to subscribe to the type of content you want to see. There's no company here deciding what your feed is going to be.
@BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world, what kind of stuff are you interested in? I'm happy to help you find related communities :)
Did you try subscribing to your interests?
Average dotworld experience.
I have two feeds: one is "subscribed" for all the stuff I'm actually interested in, and the other is "all", for when I'm up for a bit of US politics, Reddit-bashing and weird German memes..
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 Why is your comment a code block?
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.
Use a filter and remove everything dedicated to US politics and Reddit to reduce the quantity by 80%
Clearly you donβt frequent the NSFW forums
I was kind of hoping for more Western African culture, news and discussion from this Mali-based server.
Unfortunately, the ML from lemmy.ml is appropriation and it actually means Marxist-Leninist
Well there's some lovely anti-imperialist coups going on in West Africa recently, here please read these 30 news articles about Burkino Fa
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.
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.
Those are the most popular posts. I recommend trying to find communities that you like and subscribing to them, then read the subscribed feed.
I recommend finding communities you don't like and blocking those, then browse the all feed. Otherwise you get 3 posts a week.
That's not true. I've got a pretty active feed of subs, you just need to spend time curating a good list
There hasn't been a post in /sailing in 2 years. Depends what you're looking for I guess.
Sucks for you if your only interest is sailing.
No, for real: I have subscribed to over 100 communities and my "subscribed" feed is always full of stuff.
Lemmy is definitely rough if you're into niche communities, true. So was Reddit in its early years though, to be fair.
"To Be Fahr."
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.
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
How to use Ublock Origin to filter keywords out
Also you can block certain instances/communities/users. You can practice blocking users on me first!
Lemmy.world
Do you have any instances you suggest, I'm new to fediverse and picked this one at random
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.
I'm starting to see that most Canadians are more interested in american politics than in their own countries politics. When a gigantic behemoth is wounded, and about to fall, you get a lot of rubberneckers. Sadly, I include myself in this list.
As a Canadian, I engage more with American politics online because more online content is American politics than Canadian.
Do you mean to tell me you don't also have a bunch of Linux memes?
Are you talking about Lemmy.world, or Lemmy.ml? Either way, I'd say to look for an instance that more appeals to you.
Try another planet which is not on fire, sorry for going all political on you!