Not sure if this is the right place to post, but when the reddit protests were happening, I used Lemmy for a bit then decided to detox from “social media” for a while till now. Am I misinterpreting the activity here?

  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    6 days ago

    I tried not opening Lemmy the last few weeks because of the flood of American politics. I’m sure many people felt the same.

      • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        6 days ago

        All, yes. And I have blocked most of the communities that call themselves “News” or similar, but almost only post US politics as news. Yet it still trickles down into other communities.

        • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
          0·
          6 days ago

          Try going the other route, and explicitly subscribing to content you enjoy. From what I read you aren’t alone, that all is a firehouse and it’s not all fun. Subscribed to me is a much chiller experience

          • morgan423@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            6 days ago

            This is exactly it. I glance at All on Lemmy for maybe 2% of my time here, primarily to see if I can discover a new community that I didn’t previously know about to add to my collection.

            But it’s true. The real Lemmy experience is in your subscribed communities.

          • Cpo@lemm.eeEnglish
            0·
            6 days ago

            Amazing way to approach it!

            Just a wee bit afraid there would be just porn left after applying the “subscribe to me” rule 😉