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.
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I was kind of hoping for more Western African culture, news and discussion from this Mali-based server.
Well there's some lovely anti-imperialist coups going on in West Africa recently, here please read these 30 news articles about Burkino Fa
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 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.
The earliest exoduses were socialist political communities banned from reddit (particularly /r/chapotraphouse who formed Hexbear, and /r/GenZedong who landed in Lemmygrad). Then, the most recent exodus is related to censorship related to Luigi Mangione, a US political issue, coinciding with a strong sudden re-emergence of global anti-American [government] sentiment due to diplomatic catastrophes with a range of former allies.
In fact, the founders cite reddit's corporate nature and its pro-US-imperialist, racist stances as their motivation to create Lemmy: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/07-history-of-lemmy.html
So I'm not surprised at all that the default feed is covered in political topics, it's always been a strong topic here and it's just gotten stronger. But there's probably enough activity now that one can filter it out and still have enough action to keep it fun.
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!
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 recommend finding communities you don't like and blocking those, then browse the all feed. Otherwise you get 3 posts a week.
That's not true. I've got a pretty active feed of subs, you just need to spend time curating a good list
There hasn't been a post in /sailing in 2 years. Depends what you're looking for I guess.
Lemmy is definitely rough if you're into niche communities, true. So was Reddit in its early years though, to be fair.
"To Be Fahr."
i did that and my feed is still filled with politics there are so many to block its neverending
I feel the same same way about Linux posts and pervy anime. Blocking communities is how lemmy dispenses dopamine.
There's also "hide this post" and "hide all viewed posts" but you have to actually click on them ยฏโ \โ _โ (โ ใโ )โ _โ /โ ยฏ
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
And block the ones that are filled with content you don't want. I've spent the last six months or so fine tuning my feed and see lots of stuff that's interesting to me and very little that I don't want.
Sort by "hot" instead of active.
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.
As a Canadian, I engage more with American politics online because more online content is American politics than Canadian.
Would you like to discuss the failure of the liberal party to deliver on promised electoral reform?
I'm not terribly interested in electoral reform personally. It'd be nice but not at the top of my list.
If it's falling towards you, it is indeed good to pay attention to that. Also, please accept my apologies that our bullshit is spilling over the line.
I feel like we always have been - the Trudeau Sr. quote comes to mind:
Living next to you [The U.S.] is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
Only more so now that said beast is trumpeting, stomping its feet and shitting everywhere.
Lemmy.world
Do you have any instances you suggest, I'm new to fediverse and picked this one at random
Ironic considering Lemmy.world is Dutch I believe
Besides the server hosting location there appears to be very little Dutch about it.
But then again the Dutch politicians are known to kowtow America does. The Netherlands recently voted against the EU defense spending because they love NATO and the orange man so much.
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Try another planet which is not on fire, sorry for going all political on you!
They'll surprise-pikachu when WWlll starts and they don't know how we got there.
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You joined the wrong instance bud
Sad youll never see this comment as world has me on the bad boy list
Did .world finally defederate from .ml? Will we finally stop seeing cringe feudposting from .worlders?
Doubtful.
No but they banned me about a year or so ago for 'multiple reactionary posts across multiple instances'
They just didn't like me saying Ukraine is going to end up exactly where they are today.
Are you talking about Lemmy.world, or Lemmy.ml? Either way, I'd say to look for an instance that more appeals to you.
Why is it always you two,jpeg
Do you mean to tell me you don't also have a bunch of Linux memes?
Have you tried filtering the home page? I'm very new to Lemmy so my advice may not be the best, but on the home page (I'm' using lemmyusa), there is a "Location" option and I changed it from "All" to "Subscriptions". This way I only get the sub communities I've subscribed to.
I have not found a way to hide a sub community (i.e. hide "politics" or something) from the main feed.
If someone with more experience with Lemmy can sherd some additional advice for focusing content I would appreciate it!
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