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Too much US election content on Lemmy? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago by weker01@sh.itjust.works to c/general@lemmy.world
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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?

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[-] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

I hope Lemmy continues to grow as other sites keep getting worse. That will probably help round out the content. I'm only too well aware of how widespread American politics is as I have dealt with it my whole American life. I don't blame you for avoiding it, and have only started recently engaging with it. Though, compared to other social media, I find Lemmy to be more mild in the intensity and range being pushed around the site. I expect it will increase over the next few months. As for advice, if it makes you angry/upset, then yeah, keep political instances blocked. I learned how to ignore it, but that took time. 196 is still pretty great tho. Hope you find your peace and enjoyment from the community. Ask more questions, and you'll probably find what you're looking for.

[-] deuleb_biezelbob@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

Nooo keep them where they are we dont need enshittification on lemmy.

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