This little instance has been great, but Lemmy and the fediverse in general is really dragging on me.
Every. Single. Thread. has the word "capitalism" or "Trump" in it somewhere. I'm sick to death of it. Even though I agree with a lot of the sentiment, the erosion of the middle class, the concentration of wealth, the consolidation of media, the "you will own nothing and be happy" mentality permeating the consumer space. In many ways that's why I left Reddit and joined Lemmy, but dang it that doesn't mean I want to talk about absolutely nothing else.
And the only communities devoid of politics are also devoid of content. I do a lot of worldbuilding stuff, and I've tried to make !worldbuilding@lemmy.world more active, but sometimes I feel like I'm the only poster. Then I look at r/worldbuilding, and there's a glut of really interesting posts showcasing people's imagination and creativity, and nary a mention of Musk or Epstein in sight.
And then there's the tech side of things. Hope you like Linux, cuz that's all you're going to see. And if you dare suggest that Linux may not be the right choice for your blind grandmother, you get eviscerated in the comments.
Granted, Reddit itself used to have a similar problem. It attracted a very specific type of user (neckbeards) and the experience wasn't great if you weren't one, but ironically the same popularization of Reddit that lead to its platform decay also solved this homogeneity problem. Similarly, Tankies and their ilk seem to flock to Lemmy, explaining the tone of the discourse.
Am I crazy? Anyone else feel the same? Did I knock over a hornet's nest and this post is going to end up deleted?
I feel like I'm coming out of the woodwork to plug my app, but I swear I only do it when I think it may be helpful, lol.
Not sure if you've ever used or heard of the Tesseract web frontend for lemmy, but it's been my pet project for going on 3 years now. The beta version that's on the hosted instance now has really granular filtering as well as community grouping, and you can apply filter policies to community groups. Overhauling and turbo-charging the filtering is the main feature I've been working on in this version, actually.
So, for example, you could put your Pokemon communities into a group and create a filter policy that applies to all of its member communities. You could then filter/hide keyword matches, specific users, regexes for users, instances (anyone from a specific instance), or even entire platforms (hide content from anyone from Mastodon or Piefed, for example).
Basically, take the people that are "always on" but not so insufferable as to merit a block and filter them out only where you want a specific "vibe".
The version with the new filtering stuff is only available on the hosted instance, but I am on the home stretch toward releasing it so anyone can install it (maybe with the long weekend and non-stop rain, I can wrap this up for release ๐ค).
Not sure if Lemmy Radio offers it, but once I wrap it up, maybe they'll be open to setting it up for users there.
Group your Pokemon communities
Filter out and hide any users you've tagged as "always on".
This effectively blocks them only in communities that belong to this group. Also, if you're hiding (as opposed to filtering), notifications will be suppressed and hidden in the inbox so it's like they never replied to you. However, unlike blocking, you'll still see them and get replies from them elsewhere.
Note: The user-tagging is still work-in-progress and isn't available in the beta yet, but you can add users individually or by regex.
Use regex patterns to filter users (useful for people with lots and lots of alts with the same username)
Edit: Sorry, forgot to link the hosted instance. It's at https://tesseract.dubvee.org/ Despite being under a subdomain of my instance, that's the official hosted version and can connect to any Lemmy server. I just didn't want to spend money on another dedicated domain lol.