Too much US politic posts and Communities in the last weeks?
Too much US politic posts and Communities in the last weeks?
I have been more than 2 years on Lemmy and I have had an amazing experience with everything, but lately I see more and more US politics on all! I also see new communities regarding US politics + newspapers about the US, cross-posting same article in multiple communities and so on.
It's only me who thinks this is too much? Anyone else that have noticed it?
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I tend to block every community with American news and it’s what I spend 90% of my time doing on here.
Hey, did you know your account is set to appear as a bot and many may be filtering out your posts/comments as a result? You can change this in your Lemmy profile settings.
Ooo, thank you for telling me this. Can I ask in what way? I’ve just made some changes but feedback would be useful for me as a new user. Thank you!
Using a blacklist approach seems to be very popular, but here's an alternative for those who want to try something different.
Subscribe to all the communities you consider worth your time. Change the setting of your default feed so that home=subscribed. When you're just casually browsing, you'll see posts from the communities you've explicitly approved, so you can be pretty sure that you won't be seeing stuff you don't want to be exposed to.
If you want to discover new and interesting places, there are actually a few communities specifically for that purpose. (!newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca) Just subscribe to those, and your home feed will introduce you to new things from time to time. If you want to see shitposts, politics, memes or a combination of all three, you can always visit the "all" feed.
Sorry to ask but I have changed my settings to show ‘top in the last hour’ but this never translates when I close and open Lemmy again, it’s just back to All Active. Is there a step that I am missing? Thank you for your help kind stranger
Username (top right corner), settings, scroll down... Keep on going... There! Sort type: top hour.
If you're using a mobile client, it's also somewhere in the settings. Probably buried deep.
The only solution that I'm about to do!