The Lemmy experience

Lemmy before i installed connect:

us politics us politics us politics

Lemmy after i filtered politics using connect:

Comments bitching about there being politics....

Cant win

What about the obsessive hatred of cars and Windows?
- THAT I actually enjoy
- Its not neccesarily obsessive, its just those happened to be communiies commoted tonleaving the other site, ao it visually appears to be the mainstream thought.
  Linux is one of the larger communties who made the jump (in general tech people are more prone to caring about privacy and control, as tech communities in general are some of the largest here on lemmy)
  Heck one of the largest communities is piracy discussion.
- Not entirely correct.
  It's obsessive hatred of car dependency. It's not that surprisingly many of us hate cars, it's that surprisingly many of us hate that you necessarily need a car to do anything outside of the house.
- My e-bike runs doom perfectly on arch. I don't see the problem.
- linux users are of course the first to move to something like this, and the /r/fuckcars community is as well now a bit. also let's be honest, fuck cars. and fuck windows.
- As a European, car loving Windows users I don't think I'm accepted here tbh
- cars and anything not FOSS*
- As long as you stay on the meme subs it's fine
Having never blocked any of these things... I get a mix of both. Along with the new latest internet drama, a few memes that may or may not apply to me, and some occasional lovely asses and boobs.
What exactly are you filtering for? Just the word politics?

Lemmy June 2023: China good, Ukraine bad, US dog poop

Just avoid Lemmygrad and hexbear. Those are Cancer
- Lemmy.ml was no different back then
- But then you miss the Olympic level mental gymnastics

Welcome to the internet

Have a look around
- Anything that brain of yours can think of can be found
- Come to the coast, we’ll have a few laughs.
He really was smart in writing that song (helps that the song is good by itself)
Welcome to the corporately controlled internet where marketing firms, public relations agencies and communications firms constantly try to manipulate the public discourse.
If you use filters ..... you can actually hear and read what people want to talk about.
- Well, you can definitely narrow it down to what you want to read and talk about. I'm interested in doing that with politics (US), and I'm very far away from any kind of PR or marketing person. People can genuinely want to talk politics, it's not always a corporate conspiracy.

I'm fine with USA politics, because they got their hands up in everyone's asses so it affects everyone.

What bothers me more is American football. Nobody except them even plays this game but it's all over the news every time there's a major event. Same for baseball.

You're seeing NFL on lemmy? I don't see it at all and wish I did. Where can I find it
- There is an NFL community on Lemmy World. It's fairly small though.
- !nfl@lemmy.world
I rarely see American football on Lemmy. But my feed is set to local usually.
I got a feed full of spam because they decided some form of fantasy football needed an entire instance, with seperate communities for each and every single fucking team.
- I block this communities whenever they show up. Cleans up the feed really quick.
It bothers me when they just do it in every sub. Star Wars memes? Star Trek memes?
There's no fucking escape.
The IFAF has 120 nations which play American Football, though? I'd love to see more about the Japanese league but it's mostly a youth sport over there.
We have essentially the same game in Canada. But I don't care about it either. https://youtu.be/Rsqcokevi2A
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
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  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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Lol American football is fun. Actually all the major American sports are fun. If that's what bothers you then you should find an instance or a platform that's not in English. Because most of the English communities are going to be dominated by Americans.
- Woosh

I can't wait for Lemmy to get big enough that I can unsub from all the big Lemmies. On Reddit I had a bunch of niche communities that were pretty nice and not political. Now all those spammers I avoided have come here too and the Lemmies aren't big enough to avoid them yet.

The annoying thing is these people never see themselves as the insufferable bores always taking about local politics.
It's always really important.
It's always that you're a nazi if you don't agree.
It's just modern born-again Christians, who aren't knocking on your door, they're posting in your social Media.
- Well, when you realize that most of the radical communists on here truly believe that there must be an eternal struggle working towards communism but never actually achieving the goal, it makes sense why they are the way they are.
  Literally had one of them tell me that is beyond unrealistic to expect any state to be able to even implement Socialism to any real degree. Of course, in Marxism a Socialist state must exist before withering away as Communism is fully realized, so they will literally admit that their philosophy is impossible to achieve.
  They fetishize the struggle; they don't actually want progress, they want to complain.
I just hope the wait won’t be too long because as for now, we’re losing people.
- I'd say that fixes the problem, but, uh, pretty sure it'll just strangle the platform. Really the only thing I can think of is a few people bouying smaller subs with content. Some of the art Lemmies in the 'imaginaryXYZ' realm are a good example, with like one person posting content on basically all of them. It's enough to make it worth subbing though.
  Also I love how a post about how I'm tired of all the politics turned into a political discussion. Like, I do agree with one of the sides, but that's literally what we're complaining about.

Over the past few years I've become a blocking fiend. Transphobia? Blocked. Misogyny? Blocked. Vaccine conspiracy? Believe or not, blocked. It's great, I don't have to deal with terrible people and they don't have to deal with me.
I also have the orange guy and the X guy's names filtered out because I'm done seeing them everywhere.
If you want American politics off of your dashboard you would probably get a lot of mileage just from filtering out "Biden", "Trump", and "Desantis". Florida/Texas/California could be good too but you'll block non-political stories.
- Undercooked steaks? Well done steaks?

Americans are really annoying. They ruin the internet with their ability to turn ANYTHING and EVERYTHING into American politics. Even if it's about a cat on the opposite side of the world.

My favourite is posting a comment and having someone say "you voted for Biden, didn't you?". Nah, bro, I stepped foot in your country once and was mugged at gun point. I will never be back, let alone a fucking citizen of that shit hole.

Americans are interested in American politics. Next thing you'll tell me is Europeans are interested in European politics. I never hear about Brexit...
- Whats your point?
  Americans bring their politics into everything. "Europeans" (such a generalization), bring their politics into posts that pertain to it.
  Americans being upset because Starfield has pronouns is annoying. You don't really see "Europeans", Canadians, Mexicans, etc. crying about it. Just citizens of the USA.
I once got called a Republican by some angry leftists on Reddit because I said I wanted a house that came with a lot of land.
- That would be nice, especially if it were by a lake or ocean, but I'd have to hire someone to mow the lawn.
Skill issue
- For starters you can visit a lemmy of another country and read the local time-line.

You want to hear something spooky?

This isn't even an American election year yet.

I'm assuming you mean presidential election. But there are some state and local elections coming up this year. In fact, today is National Voter Registration Day in the US. (There's a specific day to remind people to register to vote or update their registration as needed.)
- You guys have "National Voter Registration Day" but it's not a public holiday? Wow! In Canada, we have same day voter registration and it helps a lot!
Oh God, I don't even want to think about just how many attention whoring posts are going to litter the front page.

This is interesting because, while I make a point of making and engaging with apolitical content, I am a lesbian.

I am a crossfitting vegan
- Veganism somehow became politically charged, although not as much as LGBTQ+ who literally get disowned by their own family.
Ah, see that's where I am going wrong. I don't engage in any content, but I do code in Rust.

I avoid news communities on every site I use and feel better for it.

Same here.. never look back..
Same, but with everything remotely political
- Gee I wonder why fascism is spreading in the world

My brother in christ you're the one who chooses their own content

There's no escape. You will always fall victim to attention whoring posts about US politics.

Not true! I am currently having an argument over light bulbs!

photo of all Lemmy Users May 2023

You prefer bean stuff?

what exactly is "bean stuff"
- Something to do with Mr. Bean

Image 1 should just have a full frame impact font reading 'linux'. Neither are ideal.

Both could be good if they were more strictly organized into communities or servers and the "all" feeds would lose importance... but unfortunately we are all just a bunch of shitposters and not the intellectuals we pretend to be

Ugh.. Wake Me Up, When September Ends.

Yep. I've blocked like 20 communities at this point

Nice to have this kind of posts here, that way I can easily identify the politically toxic users that will be blocked.
- I'm going to regret this. But what makes you think that?

On my feed directly above and below this post are two posts from world news and they are both articles about russia.

FTFY

July 2023:
US polítics, US polítics, US polítics

September 2023:
US polítics, US polítics, US polítics

subscribed feed

I've been blocking every news and politics community that shows up in my All feed because I like to try to discover new communities but got sick of all the politics. It has made for a much nicer experience.
- How difficult is it to not only have a NSFW label but also a politics label which could be used for an all time line without politics?

Just wait til March and next September

ENJOY YOUR DEATH TRAP LEMMIES!

can kick the users out of reddit, can't kick reddit mentality out of the users

American tv show

This applies to mastodon as well.

And there is still no fire escape.

Enjoy your death trap ladies!

are you saying this is bad or good?

As a politician, the Simpsons are a national treasure... Did that answer your question?

I don't sub to the politics or us news do when browsing only subbed I get much better results for content I care about

Some people would rather whine about politics (that they disagree with).
- I don't know if you've noticed, but recently U.S. one the U.S. political parties turned hard right to fascism. So, excuse me for caring about it bcz I live here.

Still got October and November too

There's no fire exit on this site?

"Enjoy your death trap, suckers!"

It filled with political trolls so gradually we didn't even notice

I don't know why this is such a problem for people. You KNOW "politics" are the most ridiculous and absurd aspect of our society today. And people are fed up with them.

That's weird. The thing that affects all our lives (in the US): What impacts wages, rent, education, social justice, the economy, cost for higher education, student loans, retirement, gas prices, inflation, cost of housing, policing, relations with other countries...

People are talking about that! Eww...

pro tip
I'm not in the US
even if I was it's my right to find political debate in the internet something not worth getting into
IDGAF
- I mean for sure, the other commenter is just saying that something that affects every facet of our lives will be discussed pretty regularly in any social media, and especially so rn with the state of the world.
- Whoa, your country doesn't have politics!? That's amazing...

There are too many users on the right side though

This is what happens when you don't have moderation tools on par with Mastodon or something moderated.

This is also what happens when mods don't moderate; when they write unclear, vague rules and don't have the power to enforce the rules anyways.

Seriously; a mod on lemmy can't do much. You don't like it? Go back to reddit; I hear they just introduced a really communist CQS system to allow the mods to really chill speech.

Don't like it? Don't click it. Or better yet get a Chrome extension that blocks out unwanted stuff.

Ha, "Chrome extension"
- "what the hell is a firefox"

I wish lemmy.ml would also ban politics so we could be finally free of hexbear and lemmygrad!

There are so many other instances you can choose then.
Hexbear and Lemmygrad are a blight
I am the furthest thing from a dirty fucking communist but I understand that lemmy.ml is for communists. Don't come into their community and change it to suit your beliefs
- Hexbear and Lemmygrad isn't communists. They're Tankies with highly fascistic believes that only masquerade as communism.
  Don't mistake Tankies for leftists.

Boo fucking hoo.

Stop your whining.

I'll break your arm to bankrupt you