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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.

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[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

You joined the wrong instance bud

Sad youll never see this comment as world has me on the bad boy list

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[–] PantanoPete@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] wolfylow@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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?

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 day 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.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 day ago

Feel free to remind people to post US questions to !AskUSA@discuss.online

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[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 day ago

Or join an instance they don't like and they curate themselves for you. :)

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sort by "hot" instead of active.

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[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)
  1. Block a shit ton of political and Reddit communities
  2. Subscribe to everything else
  3. Only browse Subscribed

Is there some secret fourth option where you complain non stop to your instances admins to defederate from instances you don't like to save you the trouble of blocking them yourself?

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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!

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 17 points 2 days ago

I block the news and politics communities. That helps tremendously

[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago

Just like Reddit, you need to curate your feed. Don't browser all/local, browse your subscriptions. Here's a list of subs that aren't political https://lemmy.world/post/16327122 - subscribe to ones that interest you.

Also feel free to liberally block communities. It's trivial to do.

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

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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

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Because that's what people are posting.

[–] KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol 10 points 2 days ago

I haven't seen any Reddit bashing in a good while actually. American politics however, I have lots of in my feed. But you can filter them out, I don't because I'm lazy. I just scroll past those.

[–] Litebit@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

be the change.

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

As corollary to the other comments, lemmyverse.net to find non-political communities to subscribe to.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 3 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] Today@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

There's plenty of fun stuff that's neither of those. Check out photography or opossums or silly drawing request. That two sentence horror group is good. So is daily games.

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