Being federated doesn’t make Lemmy psychologically healthy, it’s still a descendant of a design paradigm meant to extract your attention. Every time I see something I didn’t want to see, that’s a moment of effort to redirect my attention back to things I consider worthwhile. I only have so much time and so much effort. A large part of me just wants to call it quits but I need a way to talk about stuff I can’t talk to anyone IRL about, so I’m trying it for now.
I really don’t like that the default page (at least on lemmy.world) is “all.” I’d like to turn off that page or mass block almost every community but I don’t know that the technology exists to do either of those.
Anything folks do to waste less time & make Lemmy work for them?
I suspect that Lemmy will be unable to shake it’s negative bias until it fully faces and addresses the massive amounts of authoritarian propaganda from the Kremlin and CCP.
I’d love to see a healthy, authentic platform in a couple years, but for now I agree it’s not psychologically healthy.