Hopefully things change once lemmy.world updates to 0.19 with scaled sorting. And maybe you guys and gals have some advice for fixing my issue.

To keep my feed fresh I subscribed to all the big communities full of memes. They do have engagement beyond funny jokes, but I’m tired of how political everything is.

I’m not trying to bury my head in the sand, on the contrary, im highly aware how much fascism has taken its grips on the world. But I don’t need to be reminded everytime I’m on lemmy.

So I’m hoping once scaled sorting is on lemmy.world, the lemmyverse will transform. I hope I start seeing my hobbyist community come to life.

Or if people have recommendations for large communities not full of politics that works too. Maybe memes and shitposts aren’t for me.

  • @QualifiedKitten
    4•9 months ago

    I generally browse via kbin.social, with lemmy.world as my backup, but since Ernest has gone MIA, things have become quite laggy and the frequency of errors is getting to be too much, so I’ve been exploring other instances and apps. One of the key things I’m looking for is an alternative that provides keyword filtering, so I can block out the majority of posts on certain topics. The Thunder app has keyword filtering, so I’ve been using that for the past couple days, and I’m definitely enjoying myself more and engaging more.

    I’ve had to block a lot of communities from my lemmy.world feed since they’re in languages I don’t understand or are porn (I don’t want porn popping up while I’m killing time on the bus!), but it’s like whack-a-mole, so I’m really looking forward to instance blocking!

    • sab
      3•9 months ago

      Piefed has keyword filtering by default, as well as a lot of other neat features.

      It’s very much based around subscribing to communities, so you won’t see random things that are trending in random communities on the front page. For better or for worse I guess. I like it a lot, but I use it in combination with kbin where I’m more likely to stumble across random things (like this thread). :)

    • @PlantJam
      2•9 months ago

      Boost also supports keyword filtering. It’s one of my favorite features of the app. I find that browsing local on lemmy.world is sufficiently broad for my taste without needing to block thousands of meme, shitpost, or sports team specific communities.