I really love community-driven social media like Reddit. Lemmy feels… too small. I really loved that Reddit let me jump into any niche hobby, and instantly I had a community. Lemmy, you’ll be lucky if that community even exists, and if it does, chances are nobody has posted in ages.

On the other hand, Lemmy is full of political content lately. I’ve basically been doom scrolling everything US election-related, and it’s really starting to take a toll on my mental health.

I know I can filter content. I know I can post and be the change I seek. Yet, it feels like an uphill battle.

Not sure what the point of this is, or if it’s even the right community to vent about this. I just really want to replace Reddit, but I find myself going back more and more (e.g. r/homekit is very active compared to Lemmy version).

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 6 points 4 days ago

Lemmy is amazing. I am so glad I found my way here. I was doom scrolling as well. I had to unsubscribe from all my political communities I had joined and just keep one of my news committees. I then expanded the groups for my other interests. This really helped. You are in control of your time line here.

[–] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 days ago

I would suggest blocking the communities that post all the content you don't like. After I did that, it's been smooth sailing, and I read the All feed. There's not that many large news and politics communities that you would need to block to get rid of that stuff on your timeline.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Block FlyingSquid, it improves the community a huge amount.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Do it before they drag you into an argument, lose, then ban you.

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[–] padge@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I get it. I basically have to browse on the everything tab to get enough content, and just block the politics communities because I get enough of that from everywhere else in life. I've been using the lack of content to just ween myself off social media though, rather than go back to Reddit. This is the only "social media app" I have installed on my phone unless you count Discord and YouTube

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

As somebody mentioned below, subscribe to communities you find to be of interest and then set your default mode to subscribed so that you only see those that you've actually subscribed to and that goes away a lot. Only browse all if you absolutely run out of content and are still looking to read.

[–] M33@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 days ago

Lately I tend to prefer lemmy over Reddit and mastodon too. It’s all about content I agree.

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