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Is there a way to have a less depressing Lemmy experience? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 days ago by csm10495@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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It seems like no matter how I scroll I find bad news. I know lots of things are happening but I just want funny memes and interesting stories.

I used to be able to get this back in the day on the Reddit app feed, but here the all page is always just depressing stuff. Back then, there was news and stuff but like it felt more balanced in the all feed. I could get bad stuff but lots of interesting stuff too .

I find myself engaging less and less and just avoiding Lemmy more and more since I know the moment I open it I'll get whacked with more depressing stuffs.

I don't want politics or world news or really even memes about that stuff anymore. Heck even tech news is depressing. I just want simple scrolling of fun content. Idk it's just hard to describe.

Does anyone else feel this way about their Lemmy experience?

I remember an old post about someone getting AM radio from their sink (probably from Reddit back in the day). That type of stuff is so much cooler than my feed.

To that end: any recommended active communities on Lemmy with that type of stuff?

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[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 3 points 4 days ago

I just block a lot of communities like that. It’s easy in the Voyager app to do this on Lemmy. I also have some filters set up for some of the common words that are used in the doom and gloom posts like what you’re talking about.

It helps out a lot to decrease a lot of the overly negative stuff.

If you find yourself wanting some of it back, maybe you could create a second account that you could log into as you feel it is needed? Voyager allows me to switch between accounts very easily. Or it did, I haven’t had a secondary account in some time, but I did have that function last time I needed it.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

20 active communities which are not politics, news, memes or tech

https://lemmyverse.link/feddit.org/post/6554534

!newcommunities@lemmy.world

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

For anyone on dbzer0, or who already have link redirection set up: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35001146

[–] Vaeril@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

I mainly browse through home page subscriptions. Occasionally I venture to all to find new subs, but I have a lot of subs blocked and keywords blocked for when I do.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

!wizards@lemmy.world

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 4 days ago

Did you subscribe to news and politics communities? I'd recommend to unsubscribe, then. The more you tailor your feed to your interests, the more you're going to get what you're looking for.

[–] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

If you're into crosswords and word games, there are !crossword@lemmy.world, !nytconnections@lemmy.world, !dailygames@lemmy.zip

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Make a community, specify no politics in the rules? Heck, this community excludes US politics in the rules.

[–] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

And yet somehow we have questions that revolve around US politics geopolitical depressants.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

You should definitely report any posts that break the community’s rules

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

You can report them, they get removed

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I had to step away from Lemmy for a while because I was feeling too doomer these days. I need to go sub to more comms I like and use the filter on my app, but I just haven’t yet. For now, I’ve switched to Loops to get my serotonin hit.

[–] Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I asked a similar question about solutions to this. There is a tags feature coming that I'm really excited for that will really help. This will allow more robust filtering and customisation of your feed.

https://szmer.info/comment/8317617

[–] B312@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

You can block alot of political content pretty easily through an inbuilt function

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

On mastodon, I used word filters when my feed would be poisoned. Here on Lemmy these do not exist, I believe?

Otherwise I could e.g. block words like Trump and Musk, and only allow them in certain communities. That would make the experience possibly more nice.

[–] m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago

I had to move from the mobile web page to an app to get key word filtering.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

I read there's an extension or something for word filters or you can use an app.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I filter out a bunch of words too...but it doesn't work when people have generic titles. Half the meme communities are nothing but political slop despite (some of) their rules saying otherwise.

If Lemmy implemented tags like red had, then we can start flagging stuff so people can filter it.

[–] ultimate@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

I use filters in boost app to exclude posts with words, websites that I don't want to see.

[–] kubica@fedia.io 1 points 4 days ago

Some days I just go and block all political and general news communities I see. I usually unblock a few some days later.

[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee -2 points 4 days ago

Pornography is never bad news. Normalize more pornography in your life

[–] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This is why Lemmy will never become popular with the mainstream untill these people get their shit together. No sane person wants to browse a feed like mine despite the great lenghts I go attempting to block all politics and rage bait. I can only imagine how bad it is for someone just following the most popular communities and expecting a feed similar to that of Reddit.

If you don't want to leave then I think the second best option is to keep calling out these users poisoning the platform. Just be aware that there is going to be a lot hate coming your way then. This place is filled to the brim with extremists.

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