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Too much US election content on Lemmy? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by weker01@sh.itjust.works to c/general@lemmy.world

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I hope this is a good place for this. A few weeks ago I started a simple experiment: Block every community in the All feed that is about the US election in some way.

I thought this up after a thread about the Biden debate, as someone kindly (not really kindly) informed me that I should curate my own experience here. I thought about it and realized just how much election/politics stuff there is on the front page. It was quite hard blocking communities I like, especially 196 on blahaj.

Now the quality of my feed did go up in some ways but it's very slow. I also realized that I am feeling a lot less rage/anger than before when scrolling lemmy. I didn't even realize how much the constant political stuff from another continent affected me...

What is your opinion on this? Is Lemmy really filled with too much US political rage bait? Should I continue with my zero tolerance policy?

It would also interest me to hear an American perspective. Is there more or less politics here, on other platforms or real life. How does rage/hate affect you when scrolling through Lemmy and does it take a toll?

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[–] PoopMonster@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've been blocking channels and users left and right (no pun intended). Most of the time it's just bots arguing with bots anyways.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How dare you say I’m arguing with ~~other~~ bots.

[–] weker01@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

On the Internet nobody knows you're a ~~dog~~ bot.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

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