It seems like no matter how I scroll I find bad news. I know lots of things are happening but I just want funny memes and interesting stories.
I used to be able to get this back in the day on the Reddit app feed, but here the all page is always just depressing stuff. Back then, there was news and stuff but like it felt more balanced in the all feed. I could get bad stuff but lots of interesting stuff too .
I find myself engaging less and less and just avoiding Lemmy more and more since I know the moment I open it I’ll get whacked with more depressing stuffs.
I don’t want politics or world news or really even memes about that stuff anymore. Heck even tech news is depressing. I just want simple scrolling of fun content. Idk it’s just hard to describe.
Does anyone else feel this way about their Lemmy experience?
I remember an old post about someone getting AM radio from their sink (probably from Reddit back in the day). That type of stuff is so much cooler than my feed.
To that end: any recommended active communities on Lemmy with that type of stuff?
Does anyone else feel this way about their Lemmy experience?
The out of the box experience is not great (neither is Reddit, if you’re asking me, it’s at least as depressing to see the amount of trash/low effort posts on their home page). But once I switched to ‘Subscribed’ only view, things were already much better since I was only seeing content I was interested in (aka no politics or drama of any sort).
As already suggested: !newcommunities@lemmy.world is good place to see what’s new, also there is !communitypromo[@blue_berry
Most importantly, Lemmy is not Reddit for many reasons but this one is more directly related to your question: it’s much smaller (to give you an idea, I moderate a journaling community we recently reached… 300 members (of which less than a handful is active), whereas the Reddit journaling community is 2 Million+ ;). So, there is a lot less content posted on Lemmy. Back on Reddit, I was mostly a commenter (barely posting anything new myself) but I quickly realized that if I wanted to see stuff I was interested in on Lemmy I better start… posting myself ;)
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Is this something I’m supposed to react to? If so, sorry I don’t get it.
It’s just a bad joke about ‘the out of the box experience not being great’.
My bad. I should have understood. Even I, filtering out all the crap, have heard of that, well, that situation ;)
Have you considered halting the decline of democracy? Then people won’t post depressing facts.
Or you filter by keywords. One of the two things needs to happen for you not to be exposed to negativity.
Add a filter for anything political that comes to mind, subscribe to fun instances (history memes, anime, shitposting)
Aside from suggested communities, make sure to filter out content by keywords.
You can do that on many mobile apps, while in the web version it is commonly done through uBlock Origin functionality.
After that, Lemmy gets quite nice
I use Sync and it lets me block keywords like Trump,Elon,Musk. It doesn’t catch everything but does a good amount.
The issue is that mods here seem to not care if their communities turn into doomer shitposts. It’s quite baffling.
Every single community, no matter how unrelated they are to politics, are now just spammed with political bullshit. I’m actually on the cusp on uninstalling my Lemmy app.
Come and join us on !casualuk@feddit.uk. We provide bottom quality banter there.
Does anyone else feel this way about their Lemmy experience?
Yes. I usually stick to fandom communities where I post some cool fanart and chat about latest books I have read. I avoid all feed at all cost.
I hoped that !hopeposting@lemmy.world would be the same as r/hopeposting@reddit.com but the comments are night and day in there. I still repost stuff but a drive to make OC memes is just not there.
I usually hang out in !anime@ani.social, !lightnovels@ani.social and !hermitcraft@lemmy.world
P.S. Also my polish instance szmer.info doesn’t have as bad ALL feed as the lemmy.world due to people that don’t care about US politics and not subscribing to those communities.
On mastodon, I used word filters when my feed would be poisoned. Here on Lemmy these do not exist, I believe?
Otherwise I could e.g. block words like Trump and Musk, and only allow them in certain communities. That would make the experience possibly more nice.
I had to move from the mobile web page to an app to get key word filtering.
I read there’s an extension or something for word filters or you can use an app.
Pornography is never bad news. Normalize more pornography in your life
Step 1: don’t browse the All feed. I dunno how Reddit was okay for you, visiting r/all was always full of Trump this Trump that every 5 minutes.
At least Reddit had a nice feature where you could filter out up to 100 communities from r/all. I could still get a varied experience while not having to look at things like politics, sportsball, or games I didn’t care for.
You can block alot of political content pretty easily through an inbuilt function
Same as reddit: Subscribe to communities you like then only look at those.
Yes and no, since lemmy has a smaller user base certain type of content will have a much higher presence than reddit. And when 5 instances are all posting from the same source, that will saturate the platform.
If every new user immediately gets turned off by it, because curating your homepage is like step 2, then lemmy will continue struggling with retaining new users.
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Yeah it’s a shame. I still like it better than reddit but damn. Civilization 7 is coming out in a few days and I haven’t seen a single post.
Make one! I’m sure you’re not the only one here anticipating it. !games@sh.it.just.works
I use all a lot too but I still curate my subscriptions when I want a calmer experience (500+ subscriptions mind).
One trick is to sometimes sort by scaled which allows posts from less active communities to rise
I asked a similar question about solutions to this. There is a tags feature coming that I’m really excited for that will really help. This will allow more robust filtering and customisation of your feed.
I’ve taken a bit of a different approach. I’ve been using a keyword filter to remove posts that contain any words I don’t care to read about. So no posts about trump, Elon, RFK, cyber trucks, etc.
I am not here to get that kind of news, I do that separately with the news sources I can trust and verify. Otherwise any tabloid or sensational opinion piece can potentially try to ruin my day all in the name of getting clicks
