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?

  • dumbass@leminal.spaceEnglish
    6·
    5 months ago

    I filter out anything that makes me angry with voyager, still needs some added terms, but my feed barely has US politics in it, the odd one slips through, also ticking that box in the Lemmy website settings to block bots makes a difference.

    • Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      5 months ago

      Same with me but on Connect. I can still use All and discover new stuff easily by being ruthless with blocking. I have several hundred blocked communities and use the keyword filters for major us politicians and such.

      If there is someone who posts US politics in a general sub I just block the user.

      I know I’m throwing some good out with bad but thems the breaks.