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Why is my entire feed in this Lemmy server nothing but American politics and Reddit bashing (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Aux@feddit.uk -3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 hours ago

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 !WomensStuff@lazysoci.al or !buyeuropean@feddit.uk