Sorry for this, feel free to block all of the communities related to the topics. That should allow smaller ones to come to your feed.

Pictures, food, movies communities are rising, there is hope

I started blocking like a madman and my experience improved considerably

I know what you mean. I've been struggling myself. On top of kind of being unable to relate, I'm not tech savvy and with a demanding toddler on me I just don't find the time or energy to figure out how to even search for the right communities. I'm trying, but at 2 am when I have 15 minutes for myself and this app asks me what instance I want to view something in and doesn't let me comment something somewhere and then I try to check whether Abrathatfits is already on lemmy I get a million (non bra related) search results - it's just echausting for I don't know what. I miss the memes (I don't get 80% of the memes here since most are some jokes about tech or coding), and I miss the girly subs. I miss makeup addiction ffs and beyond the bump, and moldly interesting. I like politics in general but somehow the communities here don't have any news that I care about. The ukraine communities are also rather dead here, that was an important one since I have family on both sides of the border. Maybe I should put more effort into it, more energy, more search les and adjustments, but it might just be that lemmy, while a great concept, is just not for me. Maybe there just aren't the communities I need. I also doubt I will go back to reddit but damn, I am lost. Maybe I should. Especially when it comes to Ukraine I am really debating whether supporting a futile protest of a social media website to make a point is really worth being less informed and connected. Sorry for the long rant tho.

I'm somehow in a similar yet completely different boat from you. My feed under all is made up of like 5 communities - memes, lemmy memes, 196, linux memes, and programmer humor - with guest appearances by politics and technology. Regardless of what I set the filter on my feed to, I have yet to see a single piece of porn crop up; and I had to specifically find a search tool on my pc to find some communities to subscribe to like an r/foodporn equivalent just so I would at least have some stuff pop up on my phone with some more variety related to my interests.

This is probably all related to Lemmy being new and not knowing how to get the most out of the app I'm using (and that being new as well), but as of right now I'm largely using Lemmy the way I used to use ~~Twitter~~ X or something rather than how I used to use Reddit. As a time waster rather than a place where I got invested in the communities I interacted with.

Yeah you really have to block the annoying communities. I did have to do that on Reddit too as well though. And subscribe to some nice stuff so you have a good home feed to look at when All isn't working for you.

It's still growing so it'll get better! I hope

I'm pretty similar to you. Not much interest in technology, I already do it so often during my day-to-day that any more turns me over my breaking point. The main communities I am subscribed to are either picture-related or food-related, hope you can find what you enjoy!

You'll find your niche here I bet... Give it time

tbh I browser All or Local really rarely, I am mostly in my subscribed communities and really like Lemmy

9/10s of mine is food and cute animals.

Much to my dismay I have yet to see a single boob on Lemmy

I too left reddit, and lemmy so far works for going to sleep. It's a different flavor but it's still great for helping me drift off......... Zzzzz....

!politics wants civil discussion and not anger, but it's hard to encourage that.

I wonder if playing around with filtering like top/local (on different instances)/subscribed would make this better. There's always the block community option, but that doesn't seem to work well to hide topics and would be a pain to keep on top of.