Fediverse

Lemmy unfortunately requires enormous efforts to curate your feed - sometimes you can block a single user (or 2-3) and thereby salvage an entire community. Other times the community itself just isn't worth it, ofc the trick then is to try to find other communities that can take their place, despite them having 1/1000th the number of subscribers.:-( Lastly, blocking some instances can immediately improve your experiences on the Fediverse by like 99%, or rather it would if the "instance blocking" were to do as advertised and actually block an instance, instead of just muting communities on it (but leaving users free to comment in other communities from other instances).

None of which is explained anywhere that you are provided ready access to, and then whenever someone tries there is inevitably the huge pushback as people cry out that you don't agree 100% with them and therefore should not be free to say anything at all, apparently.

PieFed solves roughly 90% of this, for me, e.g. check out the categories of communities feature, which just recently became user customizable and also shareable Feeds. Like Arts & Crafts will have the expected type of posts, with News & Politics equally easy to reach if you did want to check it out. Which means that you can have your cake and eat it too, by not actually subscribing to communities with political content in them, yet still see that when you want.

Also, the instance block here actually blocks users from an instance, without requiring admin approval to do a full defederation as Lemmy does. I cannot emphasize enough how blissfully wonderful it was to block lemmy.ml and see not one single BoTh SiDeS sAmE post after that, just prior to the USA election when those Alt-Left messages were being put out in full force.

On the bright side, Reddit is virtually impossible to get working in a halfway decent manner these days, whereas with some efforts (tiny with PieFed, A LOT with Lemmy) this place can be outright cool 😎.

good god if this place isn’t unfunny as hell

I think c/lemmyshitpost quite funny, at least the posts itself, not sure about the comment-section...

leads to me getting exceedingly riled up by politics

Fair enough I think it's also way to overloaded with the depressing evolution of american politics...

It's better than it was a year ago so hopefully with more ex-Redditors it'll diversify even more

Aye People, recommend me some funny communities!

One of the problems with the way federation currently works is if I block US politics on one instance, I still get it en masse from other instances.

Before activity pub, all that duplication of threads would’ve been handled by moderators merging them together. Actually, it wouldn’t even have been so necessary since userscan see the existing thread and just post underneath that.

When blocking a community, we really need a check box to allow us to block the same community on all instances.

I mean, there are communities for funny stuff, but at least speaking of the ones I stumble upon on my main feed, a significant portion of the funny posts is rather old/recycled. Could be just my feed, though.

Part of the problem is many of the users just don't get jokes.

You can post something that is blatant, obvious satire, and no matter how obvious or ridiculous, someone will argue about it.

Much of the userbase is fundamentally unable to understand humour.

Or they upvote anything that aligns with their political views, regardless of quality, see the posts of Pizzacake comics as an example.