Making Lemmy usable - filtering out unwanted political / memes / controversial content (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 month ago by endofline@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I am writing to ask if there is a way to clean the lemmy feed out. As far as I see, mastodon follows rss like subscription model while as in lemmy i get plenty of politicial, memes, controversial stuff even if I don't subscribe them. I am tired honestly to block pretty much all such communities and it doesn't help too much too because there is plenty such communities f.e. "onion" "not onion". How do you deal with setting lemmy to serve you only technology / science / news ( only related to tech and science ), cosmos, engineering ones and arts ones ( photography, paintings etc )? I would be very grateful for any suggestions as I struggle to use lemmy as a new user

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[-] tilefan@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

if you scroll All, you're going to see all.

[-] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Some instances, like programming.dev, hides political and porn communities by default, meaning you have to directly subscribe to see any content from those communities. So c/all isn't all for all instances.

[-] tilefan@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago

what does that have to do with OP?

[-] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Just wanted to point out that

if you scroll All, you're going to see all.

Doesn't work the same way on Lemmy as on reddit. Some instances will filter out most politics (something OP complained about) from c/all, meaning scrolling c/all won't have you see all

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