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this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2025
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I haven't seen any Reddit bashing in a good while actually. American politics however, I have lots of in my feed. But you can filter them out, I don't because I'm lazy. I just scroll past those.
Godzilla, Esperanto, tiny phones, vampires, the weird knife Wednesday guy, and way too many silly Linux memes. Homelab, self-host. That's what Lemmy is to me! I mostly skip the politics, although I do like the odd privacy rant. Also, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, by Sara Wynn-Williams. That's unrelated to anything, but I intend to include it in any comment I make until I read it.
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Check your subs.
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!
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.
Reddit was already mostly American politics, most of the people who came kept the same ratios. Personally I see more non American posts then ever on lemmy, it needs to grow. Post and spread it around
Use a filter and remove everything dedicated to US politics and Reddit to reduce the quantity by 80%
As corollary to the other comments, lemmyverse.net to find non-political communities to subscribe to.
Clearly you donβt frequent the NSFW forums
be the change.
Sort by "hot" instead of active.
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.
There's plenty of fun stuff that's neither of those. Check out photography or opossums or silly drawing request. That two sentence horror group is good. So is daily games.
Because that's what people are posting.
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Mods don't seem to give a shit
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Lemmy has the exact same issues as Reddit, minus the corporate bullshit. Users do the same stupid shit. People don't magically become not fucking stupid and horrible because they move from Reddit to the Fediverse.
Yes, lemmy still concentrates power in the hands of instance owners and their moderation delegates. This structures all discourse and communitiesin a certain way, discourage experimentation, alternate topics and viewpoints but instead focuses attention toward, for each topic, "the one big community" and its contingent idiosyncrasies.
Only way around this is transparent multiserver communities and frictionless account and community server migration.
Without this the same structure of power will always replicate itself.
instead focuses attention toward, for each topic, βthe one big communityβ and its contingent idiosyncrasies.
[email protected], [email protected] and [email protected] being all active in parallel seems to shows that the model is working
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As others have said: filter filter filter. Lemmy is small enough still that you can massively curate by blocking communities and even users where you don't like what they post.
If you switch to programming.dev most political stuff gets automatically filtered away unless you're subscribed to it. Give it a try.