I came to Lemmy cause Reddit went to shit, so I get that people want to bash it and I also understand that most of the users of Lemmy are from the US and the shit show that’s happening there right now, but I am absolutely tired of these 2 types of posts being the only thing in my feed, I open this app because I want to learn new interesting things, and maybe see some funny and creative stuff, there’s enough negativity and stress in my life and I don’t need more of that on my only social media app. How do I filter these topics from my feed and which communities can I join to improve my feed.

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    The majority of folk that migrated from Reddit probably did so because of reasons related to those two things.

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    I don’t see much of that stuff. I mostly subscribe to foss communities and I mostly see relevant stuff about foss and tech. Subscribe to communities pertaining to your hobbies/interests and your feed should reflect that

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    Those are the most popular posts. I recommend trying to find communities that you like and subscribing to them, then read the subscribed feed.

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      I recommend finding communities you don’t like and blocking those, then browse the all feed. Otherwise you get 3 posts a week.

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          I feel the same same way about Linux posts and pervy anime. Blocking communities is how lemmy dispenses dopamine.

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        There’s also “hide this post” and “hide all viewed posts” but you have to actually click on them ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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    I’m starting to see that most Canadians are more interested in american politics than in their own countries politics. When a gigantic behemoth is wounded, and about to fall, you get a lot of rubberneckers. Sadly, I include myself in this list.

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      As a Canadian, I engage more with American politics online because more online content is American politics than Canadian.

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      If it’s falling towards you, it is indeed good to pay attention to that. Also, please accept my apologies that our bullshit is spilling over the line.

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      I feel like we always have been - the Trudeau Sr. quote comes to mind:

      Living next to you [The U.S.] is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

      Only more so now that said beast is trumpeting, stomping its feet and shitting everywhere.

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    You joined the wrong instance bud

    Sad youll never see this comment as world has be on the bad boy list

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      Did .world finally defederate from .ml? Will we finally stop seeing cringe feudposting from .worlders?

      Doubtful.

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        No but they banned me about a year or so ago for ‘multiple reactionary posts across multiple instances’

        They just didn’t like me saying Ukraine is going to end up exactly where they are today.

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    Have you tried filtering the home page? I’m very new to Lemmy so my advice may not be the best, but on the home page (I’m’ using lemmyusa), there is a “Location” option and I changed it from “All” to “Subscriptions”. This way I only get the sub communities I’ve subscribed to.

    I have not found a way to hide a sub community (i.e. hide “politics” or something) from the main feed.

    If someone with more experience with Lemmy can sherd some additional advice for focusing content I would appreciate it!

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        Besides the server hosting location there appears to be very little Dutch about it.

        But then again the Dutch politicians are known to kowtow America does. The Netherlands recently voted against the EU defense spending because they love NATO and the orange man so much.

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    Man, I’m with you! A lot of people are commenting that you should just curate your feed - man, that means unsubscribing from news and politics. I mean there are a lot of other countries news I’m interested in seeing. And I already have an app that lets me filter out content based on keywords and my feed is still filled with US content.

    The amount of US content is just overwhelming and it’s freaking everywhere. I know I’m not alone in frankly having had enough of it.

    Can’t people post this stuff into dedicated US communities?

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    Reddit was already mostly American politics, most of the people who came kept the same ratios. Personally I see more non American posts then ever on lemmy, it needs to grow. Post and spread it around