Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff
Enzy@feddit.nu 5 days ago
My filters disagree with you.
Though I wish I could block everything that has to do with that disgraceful country but, ah well.
I think Lemmy ia harder to filter. My mastodon/sharkey feed is clean from being US-centric because there’s content warning feature, people use it, and people describes their image well in the alt-text. That works well with filter. Even the public federated feed i still very clean.
Lemmy however is less robust on that. My Lemmy frontend is not helping either. It does have filter feature but I don’t think it works. I can’t say anything on Piefed, haven’t tried it at all.
How is mastodon these days?
depends on who you follow I guess. I always follow people who I decide I want to keep seeing their post. I don’t follow famous people if they post boring stuff. I also don’t follow brand account that are just posting ads lol, like software brand account, etc. I follow 516 accounts and it’s feels pretty lively.
Though with that amount of following I feel like there are few accounts that got their post buried because they post less frequently.
I mostly follow few gamedev people, few FOSS & tech people, non-tech related “fedi shitposters”, and history/archaeology-posting accounts. The shitpoters, gamedev, and tech are the loudest. The latter posts semi-regularly but they just don’t have other people interacted with it. Though I still enjoy their posts.
conversely, I had a alt account on different instance but I don’t actively follow so much account, it feels so empty. though that particular instance have some funny people so the local feed is also quite funny sometimes. So which instance to join is also matters particularly for the local feed.
But it’s also that personally now I’d get slightly annoyed when totally random post appears on my timeline on Bluesky and especially Tumblr. Especially Tumblr which keeps assuming I like taylor swift.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I’d be fine with “no US politics”. It’s so annoying that !politcs@lemmy.world is specifically and only about US politics. Because apparently, US politics are the only politics relevant for the world.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Us poltics are and have been the biggest soap opera for YEARS. and people love their soaps.