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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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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 28 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Lemmy.world

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Do you have any instances you suggest, I'm new to fediverse and picked this one at random

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago

Every instance has its ups and downs. Account age is of little value so I would say use your current account for a while and explore the different instances.

You can also make different accounts on different instances with the same username. That practice is totally normal.

Because .world is the biggest instance it tends to be the most Reddit like. Maybe try lemmy.sdf if you want a different more local experience.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Ironic considering Lemmy.world is Dutch I believe

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Besides the server hosting location there appears to be very little Dutch about it.

But then again the Dutch politicians are known to kowtow America does. The Netherlands recently voted against the EU defense spending because they love NATO and the orange man so much.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The founders of the non-profit managing LW are Dutch (the non profit is based in the Netherlands): https://fedihosting.foundation/about-us/

Hosting server is in Finland, using Hetzner, a Germany company

[–] PeaceFrog@feddit.nl 1 points 13 hours ago

I host a lot of stuff for myself at my place and just use hetzner instance as a proxy, so it could be anywhere