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Is there a way to have a less depressing Lemmy experience? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 4 days ago by csm10495 to c/[email protected]

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It seems like no matter how I scroll I find bad news. I know lots of things are happening but I just want funny memes and interesting stories.

I used to be able to get this back in the day on the Reddit app feed, but here the all page is always just depressing stuff. Back then, there was news and stuff but like it felt more balanced in the all feed. I could get bad stuff but lots of interesting stuff too .

I find myself engaging less and less and just avoiding Lemmy more and more since I know the moment I open it I'll get whacked with more depressing stuffs.

I don't want politics or world news or really even memes about that stuff anymore. Heck even tech news is depressing. I just want simple scrolling of fun content. Idk it's just hard to describe.

Does anyone else feel this way about their Lemmy experience?

I remember an old post about someone getting AM radio from their sink (probably from Reddit back in the day). That type of stuff is so much cooler than my feed.

To that end: any recommended active communities on Lemmy with that type of stuff?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is the way. I blocked keywords relating to Trump, Musk and the far right extremist party in my own country the other day and while some stuff still gets through it has made Lemmy significantly more pleasant to browse.

I can read about that stuff elsewhere if I really want to, but honestly I think we might not even be in this mess if the media didn't amplify those voices every time they said or did something outrageous.

I implemented the filters using the Voyager app, but I think most Lemmy clients have similar options. On desktop my instance offers Tesseract which also allows filtering by keywords.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I do think it's important to keep up to date. Even discounting the things I can't control getting through my filters, there have been things that have directly affected my family and their jobs because of things Trump has done and I did not know about until after the fact. There is a line somewhere that you should be aware of, or else you may just be burying your head in the sand.

Separately, I use boost for Lemmy on android. Thank you for telling me about tesseract. I haven't been as successful with any keyword filters in browser

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Voyager also has a web app interface that has keyword filtering which works well for me. https://vger.app/