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submitted 1 month ago by roserose56@lemmy.ca to c/general@lemmy.world

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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[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

The more people vocally speak up against Nazis--the easiest stance in the world to take--the sooner it goes away.

Talking sense online does help. It doesn't forcibly stop them instantly, but it absolutely helps, so everybody do it. No point is too obvious. "It's good when governments help their citizens and bad when they attack them."

"Everybody who assaults their fellow countrymen because some limp traitor told them to is a bitch."

[-] pixelkitty@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I live in Los Angeles county. Right now it's kinda all I can think about.... But I understand our political crisis can totally harsh your vibes or whatever.

[-] steeznson@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is what I sometimes feel as someone who isn't from the USA, a bit alienated from the discourse online. Our politics is more boring so it can be hard to understand the cultural wars unless you are a huge USA-phile who follows the world news extremely closely.

Edit: Like right-wing people here mainly have a reputation for being wankers as opposed to "nazis" or anything else dangerous. Makes it hard to understand the apocalyptic rhetoric sometimes but we'd probably behave the same if we thought our democracy was in danger.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 1 month ago

Please accept our apologies, our country is trying to die though. It's kind of all we can think about.

[-] FrenchFoodInHand@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I tend to block every community with American news and it’s what I spend 90% of my time doing on here.

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] FrenchFoodInHand@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] roserose56@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago

The only solution that I'm about to do!

[-] Alice@hilariouschaos.com 0 points 1 month ago

I've blocked so many communities that my all feed is finally starting to clear up recently

[-] FrenchFoodInHand@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

How long did this take you? Also do you find that you have to repeatedly block the same communities? There is certain communities that shows up every day and gets blocked every day, and the next day they’re back

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] FrenchFoodInHand@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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!

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