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?

  • Bags@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    Piefed has a content filter to remove it. Signing up for piefed.social, one of the first questions it asks is “How tired are you of the Trump/Musk spam?”. I just checked my filters, and the only 2 words are “trump” and “musk”, and I have not seen a single lick of US politics in any of my browsing over the last week or so since joining. (EDIT: Lemmy doesn’t have content filters, I was looking at the wrong info, sorry!)

    I get my news elsewhere and I’m part of local political action groups. One of the reasons I left Reddit a couple weeks back was to get away from the constant dooming. Even after meticulously curating my communities, it was hard to get away from. There’s a time and place for worrying about news and politics, but anywhere and everywhere 24/7 isn’t it.

    I can see how it could be a problem if you WANT to see a little bit of it, though.

    • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.socialEnglish
      51·
      2 days ago

      After a quick search, Lemmy does appear to have similar content filters available, but I don’t know exactly where to find them.

      Lemmy does not have built-in keywords filters. Another area where Piefed is better.

      • Bags@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        You’re right, I stand corrected. I was looking at a post on Lemmy.World that was a changelog that mentioned adding keyword content filters.

        Turns out that it was a changelog for a particular mobile Lemmy client (Summit).

        My quick glance wasn’t quite deep enough, it seems.