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
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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Why are there obituaries in the obituaries column?
Customize your feed and/or block whatever you want to filter it, buddy. Thereβs a Reddit exodus because of American-centered events, so youβre 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?
- 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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be the change.
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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.
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I block the news and politics communities. That helps tremendously
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.
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.
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.
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 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.