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Why is my entire feed in this Lemmy server nothing but American politics and Reddit bashing (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[–] wolfylow@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Man, I’m with you! A lot of people are commenting that you should just curate your feed - man, that means unsubscribing from news and politics. I mean there are a lot of other countries news I’m interested in seeing. And I already have an app that lets me filter out content based on keywords and my feed is still filled with US content.

The amount of US content is just overwhelming and it’s freaking everywhere. I know I’m not alone in frankly having had enough of it.

Can’t people post this stuff into dedicated US communities?

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 day ago

Join a different instance, there are ones that are more curated for different regions in the world. Lemmy.world is very US centric and essentially a carbon cut-out of reddit. Lots of redditors migrate there and try to maintain that type of culture on the instance, so they also got many of the most toxic complainers condensed from mass reddit exoduses.

The fediverse is meant to be explored and it may take you a month or two to find where you like best.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 day ago

Feel free to remind people to post US questions to !AskUSA@discuss.online

[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I haven't figured out how to get mine to where I was on reddit back in the day. I struggle with finding communities. I often find dead communities. I often can't find communities I've come across in the past when using the search to specifically find them. Any tips on how to solve this labyrinth?

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago