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Too much US election content on Lemmy? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I hope this is a good place for this. A few weeks ago I started a simple experiment: Block every community in the All feed that is about the US election in some way.

I thought this up after a thread about the Biden debate, as someone kindly (not really kindly) informed me that I should curate my own experience here. I thought about it and realized just how much election/politics stuff there is on the front page. It was quite hard blocking communities I like, especially 196 on blahaj.

Now the quality of my feed did go up in some ways but it's very slow. I also realized that I am feeling a lot less rage/anger than before when scrolling lemmy. I didn't even realize how much the constant political stuff from another continent affected me...

What is your opinion on this? Is Lemmy really filled with too much US political rage bait? Should I continue with my zero tolerance policy?

It would also interest me to hear an American perspective. Is there more or less politics here, on other platforms or real life. How does rage/hate affect you when scrolling through Lemmy and does it take a toll?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Do you think Lemmy is big enough to attract that kind of attention? I would be genuinely surprised if it does.

My theory was that the content just floods over from other sources. Where there are bots / paid people. Anecdotally I've not seen the classic bots like you see on Twitter and Reddit here yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

I think it is, as it lacks bot detection, not quite as bad as Reddit, but you see people make arguments which sound good but don't stay on topic.

A big factor is the lack of barriers. They already have the complex software from other platforms, the only new code is to alter the interaction scripts. The "make post" script for Facebook becomes the "make post " script for Lemmy. The problem domains are so similar I bet you can use the same numerical sociology (a good topic to look up to learn about how governments make these bots) models/code across the platforms. Though you may need a few extra features to accurately express our love of Linux, star trek, and beans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Do I dare ask? Beans?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It had the vibe of something someone really wanted to "be a meme" and therefore it was flogged extremely aggressively. But, you know, there was beans. God, so fucking hilarious. Especially the millionth one, that was the best of the lot.

Still unironically better than the jeans shit that followed shortly after, though.

So this might make me seem surly, my excuse is that I watched "rage comics" get run into the ground over on Reddit, along with that hideous narwhal bullshit, and cringe like that sticks with you.

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