Set your default view to the communities you subscribe to. Don't subscribe to communities that overlap with politics or reddit.
this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2025
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I also set keyword filters so I don't see that stuff in case they start sneaking into my favorite communities
You do know you could have just asked how to curate your feed without whining, right? I mean, if there's enough negativity and stress in your life, why bring negativity with you?
I mean, I could give you the advice without snarkiness about it, but I want to make the point that it not only isn't necessary to complain about what content is there, it's counterproductive. Just ask what you want to know, and you'll get better answers.
The first step is to curate your feed.
There's three options: all, local and subscribed. All is going to pull in every instance and community that your instance is federated with, and has been visited by someone from your instance. To curate that feed, you block communities that present content you don't want to see.
For the subscribed feed, obviously, you only get the things you choose to subscribe to, so it takes as long or longer to set up as blocking on all. So you'll have to search your interests directly if you don't want to scroll all to find things to subscribe to.
The local feed is only content from your instance. You can block things as they come up and trim away things you don't want to see, but you'd be better off taking a few days to check out what instances have the least communities that feature content you don't like, then join one of those and that way need to do less blocking.
However, some apps offer filtering, if you're on mobile. Afaik, all the popular ones do, and most of the less popular ones, so you'd need to go to your app store and see what looks best to you.
You can usually filter keywords that way. I filter some of the more repetitive names that pop up in political communities so that it isn't the majority of my feed, but still lets in some that if I blocked communities, would restrict my feed too much. That's just an example of one way to go about it.
I prefer filters over blocks most of the time, with blocks being reserved for communities that are totally unpleasant, or aren't useful for my needs at all. Filters in an app let you really fine tune things.
For you, I think a hybrid approach via an app will work best. Filter the term reddit, block any communities that you find that are based on reddit subjects.
Then, block political communities that are US specific, and slowly filter out via terms like democrat, republican, and the usual politicians. That way, you'll avoid us issues without missing out on news that's relevant to you and your needs.
I don't think you'll get as well tuned via browser, even when alternative front ends.
Any tips on filtering? I mean, I still care about some important international political topics, I just don't care much for trump, JD, musk etc. Also, Democrat and Republican might be present in other topics not about the US political system, right? Are there wildcards/regex/something else I could use? Some best practice guides?
Honestly, it depends on the app. I only use a few. Sync, boost, and connect only seem to handle full words, no wildcards afaik.
Eternity though, it has all the options for filters. Tbh though, I'm not great with regex, so I don't use that on eternity. It has it though.
Generally, I only filter the stuff that clogs the feed. Filtering trump tends to cut out repeat posts that link to the same article, but since he's not always in the title, some news about him gets through, which is about where I like it.
Filtering parties definitely cuts out some foreign news, since plenty of them reference the parties. I haven't gotten flooded with those terms being allowed now that the election is over, it's a fairly manageable rate.
I guess what I'm saying is that I adjust what I filter fairly often. When there's a surge in a topic, I check the headlines and titles and pick what is going to filter most of the posts, but not all of them.
Like, right now, on sync I'm filtering "stocks" to reduce the tesla stuff without it filtering out other news around the company. If I filtered tesla entirely, I'd miss protests and such.
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!
My are there obituaries in the obituaries column?
Customize your feed and/or block whatever you want to filter it, buddy. There’s a Reddit exodus because of American-centered events, so you’re going to see American-centric news and Reddit-bashing stories in some default feeds for a bit. Filter it out and move on.
Do you know of any prospecting forums?
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?
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?
- https://lemmy.world/post/26409821
- https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active (use the home icon to set your home instance so that it opens the communities there)
- !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
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leave .world and block the entire instance and then you get stuff that isn't related to the United States it's really nice actually
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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
- Block a shit ton of political and Reddit communities
- Subscribe to everything else
- Only browse Subscribed
This is the way to go!
Knakkers!
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Because that's what people are posting.
I block the news and politics communities. That helps tremendously
Just like Reddit, you need to curate your feed. Don't browser all/local, browse your subscriptions. Here's a list of subs that aren't political https://lemmy.world/post/16327122 - subscribe to ones that interest you.
Also feel free to liberally block communities. It's trivial to do.
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.
Is there a way that I can get the book without giving an ex-Facebook exec money?
Yes it's called sailing the sea
Haven't found it in Annas Archive, will need to do a more thorough search later.
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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.
Based
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, “the one big community” and its contingent idiosyncrasies.
!politics@lemmy.world, !usa@lemmy.ml and !politics@hexbear.net being all active in parallel seems to shows that the model is working
That 15k big community, 5k dissidents and sub100 irrelevant.
Actually that's a clear demonstration of the system's failure.
There should be 2500 politics, not 3. And you shouldn't need to post in 3 nor 2500 to reach the 20k people.
This is because if you click on this /c/politics Which you can't because it's broken But if you could, you should see everything in every 3 or 2500 politics community.
But you can't. So if you want to be heard then the big community is the place you shpuld always post, unless your a dissident, in which case you will only have a 75% handicap and have to hope the dissidents don't also hate because then it is game over.
Btw multireddits dobt fux this, because there would only be 40 people that took the tine to setup an account multireddit of the 10 biggest ones. And 0 would add the 2500 politics communities.
Frictionless migration of communities and users
Subscription based, crowd source moderation (that everyone is expected to contribute to)
And automatic aglomeration of all fediverse wide same name communities on /c/communityname
Or bust
And its going to bust, because that means instance owned ceding their structural power and tge moderator delegates ceding their systemic power
Ain't gonna happen
Enjoy living in the farm!
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be the change.
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.
As corollary to the other comments, lemmyverse.net to find non-political communities to subscribe to.
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.
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.
All I see is posts from "memes" I mean, I'm not angry, I just need to subscribe to more stuff
Okay, cool. You filtered it. People post and participate in those discussions because they want to for some reason. I you have something you'd prefer to discuss, go ahead and start a conversation.