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

submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours 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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[–] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world -5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Lemmy is a giant echo chamber, every time I browse for a bit I block a community/user or two. And don't you dare have a differing political opinion to that of the hive mind.

It's not really a good reddit replacement but if like me you don't want to install the official reddit app lemmy can be some sort of nicotine patch if you take the time to block all the shit you don't want to see

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 4 hours ago

Calling Lemmy echo chamber is disingenuous there are only two things we all agree on it seems...

Luigi did nothing wrong and Israel is doing genocide... Otherwise its a FFA of ideas... IMHO

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

I’m mean there is no real downside to having and sharing an opinion outside the “hive mind”

“Karma” on Lemmy isn’t tracked. Having a negative score comment or post doesn’t affect your account or experience at all. I’ve posted plenty that has gotten downvoted into the negative and I haven’t even gotten a warning because Lemmy is an actual free speech platform unlike twitter or Reddit.

That doesn’t mean that everyone has to like your opinions though, hence the downvotes, but that’s ok.