If you’re extremely far-left. It’s worse there than here with the political drivel dominating every single non-political topic. I still use it on occasion but just like here, I’m going to have to filter out 90% of their subs because it’s all noise, probably going to be this way permanently until more neutral sites take the place of these shitholes.
Besides the “extremely far-left” (???) i do agree there can be a lot of US political posts.
Don’t get me wrong, i’m not encouraging “centrism”, but as a non american i see way too many posts about it, even when completely unrelated to the community.
It makes the experience worse for non-americans and casual users. I even had a friend quit lemmy because of this.
I think even US citizens are tired of it at this point. Small shout-out to !AskUSA@discuss.online
We are. That’s why I filter anything containing Trump/Elon etc… in piefed.
I wish americans at the least would mark their posts with [USpol] so we could filter it out. I also wish lemmy would have keyword filters 🥲
I also wish lemmy would have keyword filters 🥲
Lemmy itself allows you to block communities, instances, and users. But it does not support filtering by keyword, e.g. filtering out any post with the word “platypus” in the title regardless of where it was posted or by whom. With help from the comments below, here are some third party Lemmy clients that have their own implementation of keyword filtering:
- Boost
- Connect
- Eternity
- Interstellar
- Raccoon
- Summit
- Sync
- Tesseract
- Thunder
- Voyager
Do NOT support keyword filtering:
- Alexandrite
- Jerboa
- Lemmy UI
- mlmym
- Next
- Photon
- Quiblr
Comment anything I have missed or mistakes I made
Yeah, unfortunately unlike piefed’s (which persists across all sessions) you have to manually set the filters for each app you use tho. Thanks for the list of apps tho :)
Keyword filters are work in progress: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5263
The Fediverse (and FOSS in general) is inherently (radically) political simply by the nature of it’s construction and organization. That said I think it’s important to stress to new users that one’s experience can be curated to the degree that normal social media cannot.
Until someone open-sources TikToks algorithm, the Fediverse cannot compete on entertainment value, what it competes on is quality and intentionality. I think it’s important we put that talking point front and center. We don’t need to convince the users who just want to scroll memes (even though this post is literall r/memes haha).
