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    Anyone has a list of US-specific or US-heavy/centric communities in Lemmy that I can just block? Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US and, as someome who's never stepped foot on the damn country—and might never do so—, this is rather annoying. Yes, president bad. So and so bad. Whatever. I wish to see myself free of this madness, if anyone has any tips. Or maybe I should quit Lemmy, touch grass instead. Idk. Totally done that before, taking a Lemmy break. Maybe that's the way. I might look into limiting US consumption everywhere else as well. US-free internet diet!

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      Anyone has a list of US-specific or US-heavy/centric communities in Lemmy that I can just block? Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US and, as someome who's never stepped foot on the damn country—and might never do so—, this is rather annoying. Yes, president bad. So and so bad. Whatever. I wish to see myself free of this madness, if anyone has any tips. Or maybe I should quit Lemmy, touch grass instead. Idk. Totally done that before, taking a Lemmy break. Maybe that's the way. I might look into limiting US consumption everywhere else as well. US-free internet diet!

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      [email protected] is exclusively US politics, so you'd want to block that one.

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        Anyone has a list of US-specific or US-heavy/centric communities in Lemmy that I can just block? Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US and, as someome who's never stepped foot on the damn country—and might never do so—, this is rather annoying. Yes, president bad. So and so bad. Whatever. I wish to see myself free of this madness, if anyone has any tips. Or maybe I should quit Lemmy, touch grass instead. Idk. Totally done that before, taking a Lemmy break. Maybe that's the way. I might look into limiting US consumption everywhere else as well. US-free internet diet!

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        Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US

        A very simple method would just be blocking those as you see them.

        And then keep blocking them.

        It's not exactly difficult, I do it with all the AI and most of the meme communities.

        Every once and a while someone makes a new one, but you just block it when you see it.

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          Anyone has a list of US-specific or US-heavy/centric communities in Lemmy that I can just block? Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US and, as someome who's never stepped foot on the damn country—and might never do so—, this is rather annoying. Yes, president bad. So and so bad. Whatever. I wish to see myself free of this madness, if anyone has any tips. Or maybe I should quit Lemmy, touch grass instead. Idk. Totally done that before, taking a Lemmy break. Maybe that's the way. I might look into limiting US consumption everywhere else as well. US-free internet diet!

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          Block the word "Trump" and block communities you don't like. It's remarkably effective.

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            Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US

            A very simple method would just be blocking those as you see them.

            And then keep blocking them.

            It's not exactly difficult, I do it with all the AI and most of the meme communities.

            Every once and a while someone makes a new one, but you just block it when you see it.

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            Even good meme communities?

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              Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US

              A very simple method would just be blocking those as you see them.

              And then keep blocking them.

              It's not exactly difficult, I do it with all the AI and most of the meme communities.

              Every once and a while someone makes a new one, but you just block it when you see it.

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              Same, that was my experience browsing "All" as a new Lemmy user... "Wow... that's a lot of furry porn... and gay porn... and gay furry porn..."

              Blocking those communities one by one rendered the All feed mostly sensible.

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              • makingstuffforfun@lemmy.mlM [email protected]

                Even good meme communities?

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                I left /microblogmemes and /political memes

                If there's anymore left they're just flying under the radar.

                But those are "memes" by the Richard Dawkins original meaning of the term. Not "memes" as in "haha, guys like how stupid I am, don't you think I'm stupid" humor.

                Memes aren't just shitty jokes, but thats all that's in the shitty meme communities.

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                • jordanlund@lemmy.worldJ [email protected]

                  [email protected] is exclusively US politics, so you'd want to block that one.

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                  Seems I have already gotten to that one. Thanks anyway!

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                    Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US

                    A very simple method would just be blocking those as you see them.

                    And then keep blocking them.

                    It's not exactly difficult, I do it with all the AI and most of the meme communities.

                    Every once and a while someone makes a new one, but you just block it when you see it.

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                    Unfortunate downside is you will miss other posts from a community, and US is always bound to show up in unrelated communities. I especially remember, albeit in Reddit, a photo of the now-president came out, and was everywhere. The damn gaming community had it posted. Like, wtf? The same one, everywhere. Not Lemmy, of course, but still. If there was a list anywhere of ones I could safely block without much side effects. Not even necessarily politics, but some may be specific to places I do not live in

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                      Anyone has a list of US-specific or US-heavy/centric communities in Lemmy that I can just block? Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US and, as someome who's never stepped foot on the damn country—and might never do so—, this is rather annoying. Yes, president bad. So and so bad. Whatever. I wish to see myself free of this madness, if anyone has any tips. Or maybe I should quit Lemmy, touch grass instead. Idk. Totally done that before, taking a Lemmy break. Maybe that's the way. I might look into limiting US consumption everywhere else as well. US-free internet diet!

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                      I almost never see US politics. This is because I browse by "subscribed".

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                        Anyone has a list of US-specific or US-heavy/centric communities in Lemmy that I can just block? Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US and, as someome who's never stepped foot on the damn country—and might never do so—, this is rather annoying. Yes, president bad. So and so bad. Whatever. I wish to see myself free of this madness, if anyone has any tips. Or maybe I should quit Lemmy, touch grass instead. Idk. Totally done that before, taking a Lemmy break. Maybe that's the way. I might look into limiting US consumption everywhere else as well. US-free internet diet!

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                        careful, you might upset an american.

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                        • jordanlund@lemmy.worldJ [email protected]

                          Same, that was my experience browsing "All" as a new Lemmy user... "Wow... that's a lot of furry porn... and gay porn... and gay furry porn..."

                          Blocking those communities one by one rendered the All feed mostly sensible.

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                          LOT of furry porn!

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                            Unfortunate downside is you will miss other posts from a community, and US is always bound to show up in unrelated communities. I especially remember, albeit in Reddit, a photo of the now-president came out, and was everywhere. The damn gaming community had it posted. Like, wtf? The same one, everywhere. Not Lemmy, of course, but still. If there was a list anywhere of ones I could safely block without much side effects. Not even necessarily politics, but some may be specific to places I do not live in

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                            Focus on users as well. Not that many people care enough to come post articles on here about Trump or whatever.

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                              Anyone has a list of US-specific or US-heavy/centric communities in Lemmy that I can just block? Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US and, as someome who's never stepped foot on the damn country—and might never do so—, this is rather annoying. Yes, president bad. So and so bad. Whatever. I wish to see myself free of this madness, if anyone has any tips. Or maybe I should quit Lemmy, touch grass instead. Idk. Totally done that before, taking a Lemmy break. Maybe that's the way. I might look into limiting US consumption everywhere else as well. US-free internet diet!

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                              Start with this one.

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                                Block the word "Trump" and block communities you don't like. It's remarkably effective.

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                                As someone from the US blocking "Trump" and "Musk" are vital for sanity.

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                                  I almost never see US politics. This is because I browse by "subscribed".

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                                  Same here. Lemmy is almost unusable if I browse by all.

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                                    careful, you might upset an american.

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                                    Nah we're trying to get away from it, too.

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                                      Nah we're trying to get away from it, too.

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                                      As an American I fully agree. I've completely had it with our politics infesting everything, everywhere, all the time. For everyone's sanity it needs to stop. More communities need to have and enforce a "No US Politics" rule. No Trump, no Elon, no AOC, no Bernie, no State Senator from bumblefuck Alabama or Los Angeles, California. None of it. Just.Fucking.Stop.Already.

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                                        Anyone has a list of US-specific or US-heavy/centric communities in Lemmy that I can just block? Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US and, as someome who's never stepped foot on the damn country—and might never do so—, this is rather annoying. Yes, president bad. So and so bad. Whatever. I wish to see myself free of this madness, if anyone has any tips. Or maybe I should quit Lemmy, touch grass instead. Idk. Totally done that before, taking a Lemmy break. Maybe that's the way. I might look into limiting US consumption everywhere else as well. US-free internet diet!

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                                        Some clients have an option for blocking keywords. Browsing by subscribed comms is also useful. I only have a handful of comms that allow US politics content that show up on my feed.

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                                          Anyone has a list of US-specific or US-heavy/centric communities in Lemmy that I can just block? Or if you good mateys know of any tricks one could apply, cause every other post here is about the US and, as someome who's never stepped foot on the damn country—and might never do so—, this is rather annoying. Yes, president bad. So and so bad. Whatever. I wish to see myself free of this madness, if anyone has any tips. Or maybe I should quit Lemmy, touch grass instead. Idk. Totally done that before, taking a Lemmy break. Maybe that's the way. I might look into limiting US consumption everywhere else as well. US-free internet diet!

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                                          grass is a good idea

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