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
I use the main feed as a way to broaden my horizons. Of course I block communities and use filters extensively as necessary. So it’s not too bad once it’s dialed in.
Lemmy is so early in its growth that I’m not sure why anyone would come here and not have at least a passing interest in All. It lets you see how we’re doing in a collective sense and is going to be the best way to find new communities.
I’m fairly into politics, but even I’m sick of hearing about it all day. I still go into threads though to see if we’re at least posting facts and complete stories, and I try to steer things back in a good direction if I see something.
This is the time period where we’re setting the conduct for our instances. If we allow sloppy posts or misinformation when we’re small, we’ll either never get big or we’ll turn into something we didn’t want. I think that means I’m here for the community building moreso than the actual conduct. If all one wants is tech news, there’s already well established sites giving out nothing but that.