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

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    So there are two ways of doing this… A positive selection and a negative selection.

    I use an app called “Boost” and there are two feeds… Local and All.

    Local shows me all the communities I have joined.

    All shows me ALL the communities unless I block them.

    Enter a community, go to Community Info, and you can join it or block it. Pretty simple.

    Curate your Local feed by only joining the communities you want to see, or block the trash communities from the All feed and refresh.

    There is also the option to block entire INSTANCES. There was one that was just bot reposts from reddit, yeah, nobody needs that. Not blocking them one by one, just blocked the entire instance.