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The fediverse is one of the few surviving parts of the internet I used to love (quokk.au)
submitted 17 hours ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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The relief when I open up Lemmy or Mastodon. It feels like coming home to an experience I didn't realise I was missing. Lemmy has grown enough now that I can look at my feed throughout the day and there will be interesting posts, all with engaging comments and conversations. It's like the internet I grew up on, only better: it's ran by the people, for the people.

Obviously, that doesn't mean the fedi isn't plagued with issues. But it feels fundamentally more culturally healthy than whatever the fuck is going on in big corpo social media.

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[–] 15 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (8 children)

Fediverse seems like a step in the right direction, but how do I make my feed less depressing ;_;

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago

    how do I make my feed less depress

    That's the interesting part of the "old internet", you curate your own feed.

    Fediverse,Technology, and Privacy are chock full of all the news, and right now, there's a lot of negative going around.

    Start by noticing who's posting in those forums and blocking the ones that are generally negative. We have a lot of bot posting that lays one way or the other. There's a Monday morning US time bot that just floods with the most depressing stuff. If you can't get it to sort out with that, start looking at other technology or news communities. Do the same thing there with blocking doom bots.

    You can't pull Artax out of the quicksand, but you can keep him from sinking so fast.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    I found this too initially. What I did was (and this may not work for you but it's probably worth a whirl) only subscribe to easygoing / fun / quirky stuff for my "home" feed which I sort by "scaled" then bail into the top twelve hours of the "All" feed to keep up to date with what's happening in the world.

    A quieter, pleasant home feed is a good start to your day.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 hours ago

    I struggle with this too.

    At the moment I have a huge list of filtered keywords to exclude certain topics or words likely to appear in extreme content. It does cut out a lot of content that I don’t want to see, but doesn’t help with general negativity and doesn’t work with image posts.

    I’m thinking of setting up my own filtering system with sentiment analysis, OCR and image classification so I can make my feed more balanced.

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