It seems like no matter how I scroll I find bad news. I know lots of things are happening but I just want funny memes and interesting stories.
I used to be able to get this back in the day on the Reddit app feed, but here the all page is always just depressing stuff. Back then, there was news and stuff but like it felt more balanced in the all feed. I could get bad stuff but lots of interesting stuff too .
I find myself engaging less and less and just avoiding Lemmy more and more since I know the moment I open it I’ll get whacked with more depressing stuffs.
I don’t want politics or world news or really even memes about that stuff anymore. Heck even tech news is depressing. I just want simple scrolling of fun content. Idk it’s just hard to describe.
Does anyone else feel this way about their Lemmy experience?
I remember an old post about someone getting AM radio from their sink (probably from Reddit back in the day). That type of stuff is so much cooler than my feed.
To that end: any recommended active communities on Lemmy with that type of stuff?
Have you considered halting the decline of democracy? Then people won’t post depressing facts.
Or you filter by keywords. One of the two things needs to happen for you not to be exposed to negativity.
Aside from suggested communities, make sure to filter out content by keywords.
You can do that on many mobile apps, while in the web version it is commonly done through uBlock Origin functionality.
After that, Lemmy gets quite nice
I use Sync and it lets me block keywords like Trump,Elon,Musk. It doesn’t catch everything but does a good amount.
I’m trying to move my news off social media and on to RSS. I set up an RSS reader with a handful of trusted and varied news sources (some mainstream, some independent, some local, some foreign) and now I’m starting to filter out news from Lemmy and other social networks.
Some things I quickly noticed is that not having a comments section is actually great, I can jump straight to or past subjects I’m not in the mood for, and there’s no endless scroll but if I feel there’s too little I can add more sources and if there’s too much I can take some out. I still also use Lemmy so if I find an interesting new blog or website, I can add it to my RSS reader to keep following it instead of relying on strangers posting new content and it getting voted up. This lets me focus more on the smaller special interest groups that social media is actually good for.
The issue is that mods here seem to not care if their communities turn into doomer shitposts. It’s quite baffling.
Every single community, no matter how unrelated they are to politics, are now just spammed with political bullshit. I’m actually on the cusp on uninstalling my Lemmy app.
Does anyone else feel this way about their Lemmy experience?
Yes. I usually stick to fandom communities where I post some cool fanart and chat about latest books I have read. I avoid all feed at all cost.
I hoped that !hopeposting@lemmy.world would be the same as r/hopeposting@reddit.com but the comments are night and day in there. I still repost stuff but a drive to make OC memes is just not there.
I usually hang out in !anime@ani.social, !lightnovels@ani.social and !hermitcraft@lemmy.world
P.S. Also my polish instance szmer.info doesn’t have as bad ALL feed as the lemmy.world due to people that don’t care about US politics and not subscribing to those communities.
Pornography is never bad news. Normalize more pornography in your life
Step 1: don’t browse the All feed. I dunno how Reddit was okay for you, visiting r/all was always full of Trump this Trump that every 5 minutes.
At least Reddit had a nice feature where you could filter out up to 100 communities from r/all. I could still get a varied experience while not having to look at things like politics, sportsball, or games I didn’t care for.
Block news subs.
Mind you, news subs are depressing right now for a reason.
Yes, gtfo out of Lemmy. It’s Twitter but for leftists.
Block Lemmy.ml, hexbear, and dbzer0, then make your own list of keywords to block (Trump, Elon, murder, angry, etc etc)
You can block keywords? I just see communities, users, and instances in my block settings.
Some of the apps add this as a feature client side. For example I know sync has this. Not aware of it on the web site though.
Yep, my block list is long. It’s updated occasionally. I call it “weeding the digital garden”. Negatively sprouts everywhere and it’s imperative to cull it asap.
The way I see it there’s far too many things in the digital world to care about, so I just care about basically none of them. I’d rather spend energy loving the people I love than being angry at what I see on the internet.
The internet is full of slacktivism and I find it’s more worthwhile to do something good rather than critiquing the bad and doing nothing.
I just block a lot of communities like that. It’s easy in the Voyager app to do this on Lemmy. I also have some filters set up for some of the common words that are used in the doom and gloom posts like what you’re talking about.
It helps out a lot to decrease a lot of the overly negative stuff.
If you find yourself wanting some of it back, maybe you could create a second account that you could log into as you feel it is needed? Voyager allows me to switch between accounts very easily. Or it did, I haven’t had a secondary account in some time, but I did have that function last time I needed it.
If you’re into crosswords and word games, there are !crossword@lemmy.world, !nytconnections@lemmy.world, !dailygames@lemmy.zip
I think places like Lemmy are better suited for discussions and ofc ongoing events and politics are a huge part of that.
Have you tried 9gag and other more “lightweight” and meme oriented platforms?
This seems really pedantic. Recommending 9gag because someone does not want to see constant bad news is just a but out there.
I mainly browse through home page subscriptions. Occasionally I venture to all to find new subs, but I have a lot of subs blocked and keywords blocked for when I do.
