Why is my entire feed in this Lemmy server nothing but American politics and Reddit bashing
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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.
Average dotworld experience.
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I was kind of hoping for more Western African culture, news and discussion from this Mali-based server.
Unfortunately, the ML from lemmy.ml is appropriation and it actually means Marxist-Leninist
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Gardening on Reddit has 7.8m subs, that's more than the whole Fediverse with all the bots.
Another issue is the quality of people. For example, I'm into kitchen knives. Dr. Larrin posts on Reddit about steels and related metallurgy. Does he post on Lemmy? No. Stroppy Stuff posts on Reddit about strops and sharpening. Does he post on Lemmy? No.
I'm also into mountain biking. Reddit is full of engineers, brand representatives and athletes, none of them is on Lemmy.
No one worth their salt gives a shit about Lemmy, that's the hard truth. If you want to get quality hobby content - you go to Reddit.
Lemmy is for 15yo kids posting memes and US politics for those who got banned on Reddit. And for some devs to satiate their curiosity.
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Sort by "hot" instead of active.
Pretty sure mine is sorted by "hot" too and politics still appear. Let me go check it.
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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
Lemmy is an echo chamber.
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Gardening on Reddit has 7.8m subs, that's more than the whole Fediverse with all the bots.
Another issue is the quality of people. For example, I'm into kitchen knives. Dr. Larrin posts on Reddit about steels and related metallurgy. Does he post on Lemmy? No. Stroppy Stuff posts on Reddit about strops and sharpening. Does he post on Lemmy? No.
I'm also into mountain biking. Reddit is full of engineers, brand representatives and athletes, none of them is on Lemmy.
No one worth their salt gives a shit about Lemmy, that's the hard truth. If you want to get quality hobby content - you go to Reddit.
Lemmy is for 15yo kids posting memes and US politics for those who got banned on Reddit. And for some devs to satiate their curiosity.
Of course a lot of niche topics are going to be more popular on Reddit, everybody is aware of that.
What people try to do by using and making this platform grow is to offer an alternative to Reddit, especially now that they ban people based on upvotes.
You seem to have a very negative opinion of the whole platform. If you dislike it so much here, why not just leave and just use Reddit? And that's really okay if people leave, that's part of the network effect.
On the other hand some people will like it and start communities like [email protected] or [email protected]
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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.
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.
@[email protected], what kind of stuff are you interested in? I'm happy to help you find related communities
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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.
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 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
Thank you for sharing!
[email protected] can help to discover active communities as well
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Thank you for sharing!
[email protected] can help to discover active communities as well
Sweet thanks!
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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.
Check your subs.
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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.
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 [email protected]? Sorry, I don't have much for you.
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Why is your comment a code block?
I for one appreciate it when the AI let us know up front that we are conversing with a machine.
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Pretty sure mine is sorted by "hot" too and politics still appear. Let me go check it.
Well, politics will always appear, but sometimes the same posts stay at the top of people's feed in the active sort.
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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 [email protected]? Sorry, I don't have much for you.
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.)
[email protected] has a pinned post with a guide on how to block keywords
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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.
What did they do this time or is this still the paid subreddit wave?
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What did they do this time or is this still the paid subreddit wave?
I don't know anything about paid subreddits, but I'm talking about the notorious and overreaching censorship of Luigi Mangeoni, including people getting warnings for simply upvoting those posts. This was mentioned in some mainstream news articles so it's a reasonably big wave.
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- https://piefed.social/feeds
- I started posting regularly on [email protected] which was originally at similar levels of activities with [email protected], now it's in the top 10 most active communities of the platform. People will follow content, whatever the mods want to do.
- I just started [email protected] 2 days ago, reached 1000 active users just now
- [email protected] was created after powertripping of [email protected], and is now much more active ([email protected] for people interested)
You are saying that the model is broken, but examples above show otherwise.
That's 2-3 communities for how many thousands of servers on the fediverse? Just because in the current growth phase tgere is not one clear winner, soon one will pull in front enough that it will grab all the new users.
This aspect of centralisation will recreate the toxic reddit dynamic of unstoppable mod power.
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