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Too much US politic posts and Communities in the last weeks? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 days ago by roserose56@lemmy.ca to c/general@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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 3 days ago (1 children)

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 3 days 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.