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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    Lemmy does not have an engagement based algorithm. It does not over analyze your every move to keep you on the site. This means you will have to do content curation yourself.

    First of all, the block button exists, use liberally.

    Second, the subscribe button exists, so use it to curate a nice subscribed feed

    Third, I do believe there are third party clients (lemmy apps made by others) that have a word filter feature which allow you to automatically hide post and comments which contain certain keywords. (I think Voyager has that. Download mobile app here. Use the site version of the app here. Keep in mind that it uses lemm.ee as its default instance.)


    But yeah, content curration is kinda just left up to you. Subscribe, Block. That’s it.

    Alternatively, you could join a “themed instance”, that is, an instance made to house a particular community or interest, like that star-trek instance, but Lemmy does not have enough users for those to be able to exist.


    If you want creative stuff, might want to have a look at !artshare@lemmy.world? Sorry, I don’t have much for you.

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    The key is that you need to subscribe to the type of content you want to see. There’s no company here deciding what your feed is going to be.

    @BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world, what kind of stuff are you interested in? I’m happy to help you find related communities :)

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    I noticed that too. I’m American but don’t give a shit about politics because it’s just too upsetting.

    Go to the communities posting about it and click the 3 dots in the upper right hand corner and block the sub. I had to do this over the course of about 2 days while subbing to ones I enjoyed.

    Still learning how to navigate this site and find communities I enjoy, but for the most part I’m not seeing the politics anymore. Hope this helps at least a little

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    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…

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    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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    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 
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    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.

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

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    Those are the most popular posts. I recommend trying to find communities that you like and subscribing to them, then read the subscribed feed.

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      I recommend finding communities you don’t like and blocking those, then browse the all feed. Otherwise you get 3 posts a week.

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        There’s also “hide this post” and “hide all viewed posts” but you have to actually click on them ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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    The majority of folk that migrated from Reddit probably did so because of reasons related to those two things.

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      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.

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      Well there’s some lovely anti-imperialist coups going on in West Africa recently, here please read these 30 news articles about Burkino Fa