Hi everyone,

I start to feel like in a reddit echo chamber lately, 2/3 of news are about the usa president.

It’s everywhere, and it definitely lowers the quality of posts here on lemmy, IMO.

Is there anything to do to alleviate this, can’t block every outlet without also blocking other info.

Maybe a sitewide thing? Obligation to correctly tag posts?

😓

It also makes it harder to change reader, gotta re-block and filter stuff (even if that’s not enough).

So, what to do?

  • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa@aussie.zone
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    6 hours ago

    One element of Lemmy that is being underutilised by many people is the ‘together but separate’ nature of this social media.

    This is probably due to a lot of the user interfaces, be it desktop or mobile, not prioritising showing a distinction between servers.

    The app ‘sync’ is one example that does prioritise this, (although its not been updated for ages so is slowly breaking).

    This app allows you to visit each server individually, not just single communities. This means you can spend your time on some of the country specific, or special interest servers where the very ‘reddity’ US politics posting is minimal, if present at all.

    So my advice, go explore some specific servers. I don’t know what DB0’s server is like. Just had a quick look, seems like a tonne of bots posting on the local, so maybe not the best example of what I mean.

    Try my home instance (aussie.zone) theres a group of regular posters, and while we have an ‘overseas news’ community, it isnt the most popular community on the server, and US stuff is far from the top three of subjects.

    Other examples of what I mean are,

    Lemmy.NZ Feddit.UK Programming.dev Slrpnk.net

    We have the ability to have whole servers dedicated to niche topics, and their different facets, while still being connected to the whole, its quite fantastic.

    So go explore different servers, maybe even move to a server that particularly interests you, that way when you can’t do the content on ‘all’ or ‘subscribed’ communities, theres the ‘local’ or ‘favourite’ servers there as well.