Set your default view to the communities you subscribe to. Don’t subscribe to communities that overlap with politics or reddit.

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.

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 lemmy.world/post/16327122 - subscribe to ones that interest you.

Also feel free to liberally block communities. It’s trivial to do.

My are there obituaries in the obituaries column?

Customize your feed and/or block whatever you want to filter it, buddy. There’s a Reddit exodus because of American-centered events, so you’re going to see American-centric news and Reddit-bashing stories in some default feeds for a bit. Filter it out and move on.

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.

You do know you could have just asked how to curate your feed without whining, right? I mean, if there’s enough negativity and stress in your life, why bring negativity with you?

I mean, I could give you the advice without snarkiness about it, but I want to make the point that it not only isn’t necessary to complain about what content is there, it’s counterproductive. Just ask what you want to know, and you’ll get better answers.

The first step is to curate your feed.

There’s three options: all, local and subscribed. All is going to pull in every instance and community that your instance is federated with, and has been visited by someone from your instance. To curate that feed, you block communities that present content you don’t want to see.

For the subscribed feed, obviously, you only get the things you choose to subscribe to, so it takes as long or longer to set up as blocking on all. So you’ll have to search your interests directly if you don’t want to scroll all to find things to subscribe to.

The local feed is only content from your instance. You can block things as they come up and trim away things you don’t want to see, but you’d be better off taking a few days to check out what instances have the least communities that feature content you don’t like, then join one of those and that way need to do less blocking.

However, some apps offer filtering, if you’re on mobile. Afaik, all the popular ones do, and most of the less popular ones, so you’d need to go to your app store and see what looks best to you.

You can usually filter keywords that way. I filter some of the more repetitive names that pop up in political communities so that it isn’t the majority of my feed, but still lets in some that if I blocked communities, would restrict my feed too much. That’s just an example of one way to go about it.

I prefer filters over blocks most of the time, with blocks being reserved for communities that are totally unpleasant, or aren’t useful for my needs at all. Filters in an app let you really fine tune things.

For you, I think a hybrid approach via an app will work best. Filter the term reddit, block any communities that you find that are based on reddit subjects.

Then, block political communities that are US specific, and slowly filter out via terms like democrat, republican, and the usual politicians. That way, you’ll avoid us issues without missing out on news that’s relevant to you and your needs.

I don’t think you’ll get as well tuned via browser, even when alternative front ends.

Step 1: Block a shit ton of political and Reddit communities Step 2: Subscribe to everything else

All I see is posts from “memes” I mean, I’m not angry, I just need to subscribe to more stuff

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.

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.

If you switch to programming.dev most political stuff gets automatically filtered away unless you’re subscribed to it. Give it a try.

As corollary to the other comments, lemmyverse.net to find non-political communities to subscribe to.

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.

be the change.

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, I’m 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 I’m 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 it’s freaking everywhere. I know I’m not alone in frankly having had enough of it.

Can’t people post this stuff into dedicated US communities?

Do you mean to tell me you don’t also have a bunch of Linux memes?

Reddit was already mostly American politics, most of the people who came kept the same ratios. Personally I see more non American posts then ever on lemmy, it needs to grow. Post and spread it around

Lemmy.world

Lemmy is a giant echo chamber, every time I open I block a community/user or two. And don’t you dare have a differing political opinion to that of the hive mind.

It’s not really a good reddit replacement but if like me you don’t want to install the official reddit app lemmy can be some sort of nicotine patch if you take the time to block all the shit you don’t want to see

Are you talking about Lemmy.world, or Lemmy.ml? Either way, I’d say to look for an instance that more appeals to you.

2 reasons:

Mods don’t seem to give a shit

Lemmy has the exact same issues as Reddit, minus the corporate bullshit. Users do the same stupid shit. People don’t magically become not fucking stupid and horrible because they move from Reddit to the Fediverse.

Because that’s what people are posting.

You joined the wrong instance bud

Sad youll never see this comment as world has me on the bad boy list