I hope this is a good place for this. A few weeks ago I started a simple experiment: Block every community in the All feed that is about the US election in some way.

I thought this up after a thread about the Biden debate, as someone kindly (not really kindly) informed me that I should curate my own experience here. I thought about it and realized just how much election/politics stuff there is on the front page. It was quite hard blocking communities I like, especially 196 on blahaj.

Now the quality of my feed did go up in some ways but it’s very slow. I also realized that I am feeling a lot less rage/anger than before when scrolling lemmy. I didn’t even realize how much the constant political stuff from another continent affected me…

What is your opinion on this? Is Lemmy really filled with too much US political rage bait? Should I continue with my zero tolerance policy?

It would also interest me to hear an American perspective. Is there more or less politics here, on other platforms or real life. How does rage/hate affect you when scrolling through Lemmy and does it take a toll?

  • @Sterile_TechniqueEnglish
    5•4 months ago

    as someone kindly (not really kindly) informed me that I should curate my own experience here.

    Delivery of the message notwithstanding, definitely do curate. It takes weeks whittle All down to only topics that interest you, but tackle it one community at a time and you’ll get there. All is about the only thing I browse now - I’ve blocked a TON of communities that don’t interest me, and the experience now if much, MUCH better.

    I strongly recommend also using a key word filter - many of Lemmy’s apps have this feature, and IIRC there’s a “RES” of Lemmy floating around the web somewhere, but I neglected to bookmark it and don’t remember what it’s called -_- …if you happen to know what I’m talking about, please drop a link!

    Anywho, if you’re tired of US politics in your Lemmy, chop it!