Sorry for this, feel free to block all of the communities related to the topics. That should allow smaller ones to come to your feed.

Pictures, food, movies communities are rising, there is hope

I started blocking like a madman and my experience improved considerably

I know what you mean. I’ve been struggling myself. On top of kind of being unable to relate, I’m not tech savvy and with a demanding toddler on me I just don’t find the time or energy to figure out how to even search for the right communities. I’m trying, but at 2 am when I have 15 minutes for myself and this app asks me what instance I want to view something in and doesn’t let me comment something somewhere and then I try to check whether Abrathatfits is already on lemmy I get a million (non bra related) search results - it’s just echausting for I don’t know what. I miss the memes (I don’t get 80% of the memes here since most are some jokes about tech or coding), and I miss the girly subs. I miss makeup addiction ffs and beyond the bump, and moldly interesting. I like politics in general but somehow the communities here don’t have any news that I care about. The ukraine communities are also rather dead here, that was an important one since I have family on both sides of the border. Maybe I should put more effort into it, more energy, more search les and adjustments, but it might just be that lemmy, while a great concept, is just not for me. Maybe there just aren’t the communities I need. I also doubt I will go back to reddit but damn, I am lost. Maybe I should. Especially when it comes to Ukraine I am really debating whether supporting a futile protest of a social media website to make a point is really worth being less informed and connected. Sorry for the long rant tho.

I’m somehow in a similar yet completely different boat from you. My feed under all is made up of like 5 communities - memes, lemmy memes, 196, linux memes, and programmer humor - with guest appearances by politics and technology. Regardless of what I set the filter on my feed to, I have yet to see a single piece of porn crop up; and I had to specifically find a search tool on my pc to find some communities to subscribe to like an r/foodporn equivalent just so I would at least have some stuff pop up on my phone with some more variety related to my interests.

This is probably all related to Lemmy being new and not knowing how to get the most out of the app I’m using (and that being new as well), but as of right now I’m largely using Lemmy the way I used to use Twitter X or something rather than how I used to use Reddit. As a time waster rather than a place where I got invested in the communities I interacted with.

Yeah you really have to block the annoying communities. I did have to do that on Reddit too as well though. And subscribe to some nice stuff so you have a good home feed to look at when All isn’t working for you.

It’s still growing so it’ll get better! I hope

I’m pretty similar to you. Not much interest in technology, I already do it so often during my day-to-day that any more turns me over my breaking point. The main communities I am subscribed to are either picture-related or food-related, hope you can find what you enjoy!

Much to my dismay I have yet to see a single boob on Lemmy

9/10s of mine is food and cute animals.

You’ll find your niche here I bet… Give it time

tbh I browser All or Local really rarely, I am mostly in my subscribed communities and really like Lemmy

!politics wants civil discussion and not anger, but it’s hard to encourage that.

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I wonder if playing around with filtering like top/local (on different instances)/subscribed would make this better. There’s always the block community option, but that doesn’t seem to work well to hide topics and would be a pain to keep on top of.

I am really enjoying the statement on being a straight woman, but unlike the rest of your statements you didn’t elaborate on boobs.

Shh… you can block communities. (You habe to see them at least once though :/)

If they’re all on the same instance, there app that can block entire instances.

I literally never seen anything Furry on Lemmy, but it took me 2 minutes on Bkuesky to find not one but two prolific Bara artists.

Yes! in my streaming service too please

This with the power of a thousand suns

Same ! I live in india , but seems like i am wayyy to updated with us political news !ugh

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I got used to it, you just need to look at the US as a union of states like Europe, in which case Arkansas is about equivalent to Lithuania in population (although if you correct for the more states and less pop of the US you get Bulgaria or Finland if you use a ranked method) . The same could be done for China, India and Brazil.

It will when we stop being the Republic and get this Empire phase rolling.

A huge part of that is american-centric attitudes though. There is the politics sub on Lemmy.world and it’s only for US politics. But it’s not called “usonlypolitics” it’s called “politics”. Somehow they don’t see the problem with that.

Also the mods are been absolutely bellends about it and are refusing to even acknowledge that that is a problem.

There is surprisingly less of this on the Fediverse. On Reddit I had a massive blocklist with words like Biden, Trump, DeSantos, AOC etc. and I still wasn’t saved from all of the bullshit over in the land of the free.

I rarely see all of that crap here and it’s honestly very refreshing.

The main problem being that people have dug up the last 10 years of reddit memes to repost then on Lemmy.

If you’re not here for memes or porn then why?!

/s

If we hid meme communities, I’m not sure there would be any posts left.

The only two communities I blocked were just a barrage of memes straight to the frontpage.

I don’t mind memes but holy shit most of them are so bad and the volume is just too much.

It was pretty bad for me until I got most of them filtered. There’s a com for every single team, every single league, and more.

Not quite as prolific as, say, Linux or porn. But there’s a lot of them.

Same — I don’t recall a single sports-related post — not even a meme. Maybe my instance already defederated from all the home servers of these communities (I think that’s how it works?).

What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?

This is the only sports-related comment thread that is acceptable.

No, they’ve gone plaid.

Nah, give me all them SuperbOwls.

Hentai is my favourite sport

I love Sync!

Thanks, I never knew this is a thing.

I love not having to see any posts about Elon or Shitter. Sync is great.

Please tell me those are your whitelist keywords

That’s a great idea. I’d prefer this instead of instances that are mainly focused on specific topics

I’d filter out Mr [Trump] and similar ilk immediately.

I would like the platform itself to support this, as I often use the website.

I think this is the only good thing Tildes has with tags, tags can work as sub-comunities inside a sublemmy.

This would be freaking awesome. Doesn’t seem like it would be too difficult to add, but then again, I’m not a developer.

On some Mastodon clients you can block hashtags, and on Lemmy you can block communities, so we’re already pretty close. To do more would require a lot of self-tagging of posts and not everyone will do that. Or it would require analytics and automatic tagging that may not be accurate and would theoretically be a privacy nightmare.

I don’t think the group of people interested in sports and the group of tech savvy that use the fediverse overlap that much!

This is actually my biggest complaint about fedi services. I really love the baseball communities on Reddit (not on Twitter, though, that shit is toxic and often very homophobic), and there’s just not a substitute elsewhere. I would love for baseball Lemmy to take off.

I have yet to see active sports talk or news. But I’m also still figuring out this whole place.

Especially US politics. I couldn’t care less.

Or as some Americans say, “I could care less”

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