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?

  • Allero@lemmy.today
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    7 days ago

    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

  • brlemworld@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I use Sync and it lets me block keywords like Trump,Elon,Musk. It doesn’t catch everything but does a good amount.

    • HotCoffee@lemm.ee
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      8 days ago

      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.

      • CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.eeEnglish
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        8 days ago

        Lemmy doesn’t really have enough users for the same type of mindless only scrolling in communities you like from what I’ve seen. On reddit I’m subscribed to 2 drama subs Gentoo sub and a few others. There is enough content in that for me to just scroll that instead of all.

        on the other hand here I find my subscriptions literally don’t get new posts. It’s fine I’m getting used to it but it means I’m using the all equivalent far more often.

        • can@sh.itjust.works
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          8 days ago

          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

        • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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          8 days ago

          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.

  • Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
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    8 days ago

    This is why Lemmy will never become popular with the mainstream untill these people get their shit together. No sane person wants to browse a feed like mine despite the great lenghts I go attempting to block all politics and rage bait. I can only imagine how bad it is for someone just following the most popular communities and expecting a feed similar to that of Reddit.

    If you don’t want to leave then I think the second best option is to keep calling out these users poisoning the platform. Just be aware that there is going to be a lot hate coming your way then. This place is filled to the brim with extremists.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      8 days ago

      In fact, blocking communities is more important than subscribing to them!

      I browse Subscribed. Whitelisting communities is almost certainly going to be a lot more aggressive than browsing All and blacklisting communities.

    • PartiallyApplied@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      Yep, my block list is long. It’s updated occasionally. I call it “weeding the digital garden”. Negatively sprouts everywhere and it’s imperative to cull it asap.

      The way I see it there’s far too many things in the digital world to care about, so I just care about basically none of them. I’d rather spend energy loving the people I love than being angry at what I see on the internet.

      The internet is full of slacktivism and I find it’s more worthwhile to do something good rather than critiquing the bad and doing nothing.

    • Bronzebeard@lemm.eeEnglish
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      7 days ago

      You can block keywords? I just see communities, users, and instances in my block settings.

      • Cid Vicious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        7 days ago

        Some of the apps add this as a feature client side. For example I know sync has this. Not aware of it on the web site though.

  • HotCoffee@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    Yeah lemmy has bit too much political content. Americans seem very obsessed with it. I just kept blocking all of them and now my feed is pretty free of political nonsense. If I want that kind of content i’ll just read the news paper or go to my news feed of choice

    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works
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      8 days ago

      To be fair, a large slice of the user base is in the US and currently everything is collapsing around us. It should come as no surprise that we complain about it a lot. The mods of various communities could certainly enforce rules more; e.g. in shitposting or memes, remove any political content. It would help the situation.

      • HotCoffee@lemm.ee
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        8 days ago

        Lol than your country has been collapsing for the last 2+ years, cus it’s always dominated by politics on lemmy.

        It’s a difficult balance to strike, since enforcing content also feels like going against the foss ethos… It’s tricky. But just keep promoting Lemmy and the fediverse and some day we will have a more balanced experience

        • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works
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          8 days ago

          I agree. And yes, the last 2+ years have been a political shit show, because we were scared shitless of what has now happened.

    • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Unfortunately there’s almost nothing left once you’ve blocked all that. I’m close to leaving. No one will miss me, whatever. Occasionally I have a nice interaction though.

      • HotCoffee@lemm.ee
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        8 days ago

        Won’t argue with that, 70% is Linux and Politics combined. I do enjoy the “small scale forum” feel, but indeed after scrolling for 30 minutes you will probaly have consumed most of the content for the coming 48hours. After that, shamefully admitting, it’s back to reddit and tiktok.

        • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works
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          8 days ago

          I’ve been using as an impetus to pick up a book instead, or do something constructive. I get my shot of dopamine, but since it has an end I am forced to do other things.

      • threshold_dweller@lemmy.today
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        8 days ago

        I’m in the same place. Avoiding politics is not only for my mental health.

        In my case, for personal as well as professional reasons, I particularly need to avoid communities where advocating for political violence is tolerated (and in some even condoned.)

        I blocked all the politics-specific or adjacent communities, but most of Lemmy seems to want everything to be about politics.

        That’s way too toxic for me so I have to detach from Lemmy. I deleted my main account and I’m going to come back in a few months to see if it has calmed down.

  • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I just block a lot of communities like that. It’s easy in the Voyager app to do this on Lemmy. I also have some filters set up for some of the common words that are used in the doom and gloom posts like what you’re talking about.

    It helps out a lot to decrease a lot of the overly negative stuff.

    If you find yourself wanting some of it back, maybe you could create a second account that you could log into as you feel it is needed? Voyager allows me to switch between accounts very easily. Or it did, I haven’t had a secondary account in some time, but I did have that function last time I needed it.

  • Meldrik@lemmy.wtf
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    8 days ago

    Why don’t you just keep away from c/all and stick to your subscribed communities?

    To discover new communities, I suggest subscribing to c/newcommunities

  • Breve@pawb.social
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    7 days ago

    I’m trying to move my news off social media and on to RSS. I set up an RSS reader with a handful of trusted and varied news sources (some mainstream, some independent, some local, some foreign) and now I’m starting to filter out news from Lemmy and other social networks.

    Some things I quickly noticed is that not having a comments section is actually great, I can jump straight to or past subjects I’m not in the mood for, and there’s no endless scroll but if I feel there’s too little I can add more sources and if there’s too much I can take some out. I still also use Lemmy so if I find an interesting new blog or website, I can add it to my RSS reader to keep following it instead of relying on strangers posting new content and it getting voted up. This lets me focus more on the smaller special interest groups that social media is actually good for.

  • morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 days ago

    i blocked every single news and politics communities, as well as all the “*** infuriating” ones, it has drastically improved the content of my timeline :)

  • thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I use voyager and block words phrases and instances that bring that stuff up. And sometimes users who repeatedly do it too.

    I’m also on Lemmy blahaj which don’t know if that matters. But over time I rarely have a lot of depressing political things in my feed anymore. Just every so often.

    I have another account on Lemmy world for political things already I rarely use it.

  • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
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    8 days ago

    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@lemmy.ca

    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 ;)