Asklemmy

Average dotworld experience.

Did you try subscribing to your interests?

Normal people don't give a shit about Lemmy. If you want to dive into hobbies, local news and other fun stuff - go to Reddit :)

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 

Use a filter and remove everything dedicated to US politics and Reddit to reduce the quantity by 80%

Clearly you don’t frequent the NSFW forums

Come visit !dullsters@dullsters.net or !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world

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.

I was kind of hoping for more Western African culture, news and discussion from this Mali-based server.

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.

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 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

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.

Try another planet which is not on fire, sorry for going all political on you!

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.

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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