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.
I left the shitposts and it’s been much more fun. I’m there with you, I deal with anxiety. I’m an informed voter, I keep up with things, but when I’m scrolling and wasting time I don’t want to be bombarded with how terrible the world is. I just want to see cats and chuckle a bit.
Same I avoided news stuff back on reddit too. RSS fills that role anyways of headlines, and I don’t really need the world is ending and everyone sucks so be depressed and anxious input to add to that.
Keyword filters are helpful for this, especially when people feel the need to post about a topic to every single community they can find. Boost has this as a feature, and I’m pretty sure several other apps do, too.
Sometimes I have to just block certain people, though.
I had to not just leave lemmyshitpost, but block it. I want to appreciate people making an effort to put up content, but that content is so cringy and annoying that I couldn’t take it anymore and it shows up under All if you don’t block it.