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Customize your feed and/or block whatever you want to filter it, buddy. Thereβs a Reddit exodus because of American-centered events, so youβre going to see American-centric news and Reddit-bashing stories in some default feeds for a bit. Filter it out and move on.
Do you know of any prospecting forums?
This is the way to go!
Knakkers!
I block the news and politics communities. That helps tremendously
Just like Reddit, you need to curate your feed. Don't browser all/local, browse your subscriptions. Here's a list of subs that aren't political https://lemmy.world/post/16327122 - subscribe to ones that interest you.
Also feel free to liberally block communities. It's trivial to do.
leave .world and block the entire instance and then you get stuff that isn't related to the United States it's really nice actually
Man, Iβm with you! A lot of people are commenting that you should just curate your feed - man, that means unsubscribing from news and politics. I mean there are a lot of other countries news Iβm interested in seeing. And I already have an app that lets me filter out content based on keywords and my feed is still filled with US content.
The amount of US content is just overwhelming and itβs freaking everywhere. I know Iβm not alone in frankly having had enough of it.
Canβt people post this stuff into dedicated US communities?
Godzilla, Esperanto, tiny phones, vampires, the weird knife Wednesday guy, and way too many silly Linux memes. Homelab, self-host. That's what Lemmy is to me! I mostly skip the politics, although I do like the odd privacy rant. Also, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, by Sara Wynn-Williams. That's unrelated to anything, but I intend to include it in any comment I make until I read it.
Is there a way that I can get the book without giving an ex-Facebook exec money?
Yes it's called sailing the sea
Haven't found it in Annas Archive, will need to do a more thorough search later.
I haven't seen any Reddit bashing in a good while actually. American politics however, I have lots of in my feed. But you can filter them out, I don't because I'm lazy. I just scroll past those.
As corollary to the other comments, lemmyverse.net to find non-political communities to subscribe to.
There's plenty of fun stuff that's neither of those. Check out photography or opossums or silly drawing request. That two sentence horror group is good. So is daily games.
be the change.
As others have said: filter filter filter. Lemmy is small enough still that you can massively curate by blocking communities and even users where you don't like what they post.
If you switch to programming.dev most political stuff gets automatically filtered away unless you're subscribed to it. Give it a try.
All I see is posts from "memes" I mean, I'm not angry, I just need to subscribe to more stuff
Okay, cool. You filtered it. People post and participate in those discussions because they want to for some reason. I you have something you'd prefer to discuss, go ahead and start a conversation.