• shadowSprite@lemmy.world
    229·
    11 months ago

    Lemmy for me is all Linux, politics, boobs, anime and sports. I’m a straight woman who hates sports and anime, has a surface interest in Linux but doesn’t wish to debate about it, and likes to be knowledgeable about both world and US politics but hates the anger. I’m really debating if Lemmy is for me, but I won’t go back to reddit and I need someplace to browse when the insomnia strikes.

    • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
      105·
      11 months ago

      Sorry for this, feel free to block all of the communities related to the topics. That should allow smaller ones to come to your feed.

      Pictures, food, movies communities are rising, there is hope

      • doctortofuEnglish
        18·
        11 months ago

        Same - my blocklist is gigantic now, but by combining that with subscriptions means that I can always choose between a very tightly curated list of stuff that interests me and nothing else (browsing subscribed) and a much bigger list of more random stuff that lets me discover new things but still doesn’t have sports, cars, porn and other things in actively disinterested in (browsing all). I like this system a lot.

      • flameguy21@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        11 months ago

        I just do what I did with reddit and only browse all whenever I get REALLY bored.

        • Lev_Astov@lemmy.world
          4·
          11 months ago

          On the basic mobile website, you go to the sub… community you want to block or even just the comments for a post, expand the side bar button at the top, then hit Block Community.

          For example, on this post, I go into these comments, hit Sidebar at the top of the comments, then block community.

    • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee
      37·
      11 months ago

      I know what you mean. I’ve been struggling myself. On top of kind of being unable to relate, I’m not tech savvy and with a demanding toddler on me I just don’t find the time or energy to figure out how to even search for the right communities. I’m trying, but at 2 am when I have 15 minutes for myself and this app asks me what instance I want to view something in and doesn’t let me comment something somewhere and then I try to check whether Abrathatfits is already on lemmy I get a million (non bra related) search results - it’s just echausting for I don’t know what. I miss the memes (I don’t get 80% of the memes here since most are some jokes about tech or coding), and I miss the girly subs. I miss makeup addiction ffs and beyond the bump, and moldly interesting. I like politics in general but somehow the communities here don’t have any news that I care about. The ukraine communities are also rather dead here, that was an important one since I have family on both sides of the border. Maybe I should put more effort into it, more energy, more search les and adjustments, but it might just be that lemmy, while a great concept, is just not for me. Maybe there just aren’t the communities I need. I also doubt I will go back to reddit but damn, I am lost. Maybe I should. Especially when it comes to Ukraine I am really debating whether supporting a futile protest of a social media website to make a point is really worth being less informed and connected. Sorry for the long rant tho.

    • Khotetsu@lib.lgbtEnglish
      16·
      11 months ago

      I’m somehow in a similar yet completely different boat from you. My feed under all is made up of like 5 communities - memes, lemmy memes, 196, linux memes, and programmer humor - with guest appearances by politics and technology. Regardless of what I set the filter on my feed to, I have yet to see a single piece of porn crop up; and I had to specifically find a search tool on my pc to find some communities to subscribe to like an r/foodporn equivalent just so I would at least have some stuff pop up on my phone with some more variety related to my interests.

      This is probably all related to Lemmy being new and not knowing how to get the most out of the app I’m using (and that being new as well), but as of right now I’m largely using Lemmy the way I used to use Twitter X or something rather than how I used to use Reddit. As a time waster rather than a place where I got invested in the communities I interacted with.

      • projectmoon@lemm.ee
        10·
        11 months ago

        Block the meme communities. It makes things much better. I wish there was a way to relegate certain things to a separate feed without completely blocking them. But right now block is the only tool.

        • Khotetsu@lib.lgbtEnglish
          7·
          11 months ago

          I’ve actually considered making other accounts to separate content out by blocking different communities on them, but I’ve never really felt the desire to filter out the memes enough to go through with it.

    • frogfruit@discuss.online
      9·
      11 months ago

      Yeah you really have to block the annoying communities. I did have to do that on Reddit too as well though. And subscribe to some nice stuff so you have a good home feed to look at when All isn’t working for you.

    • kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca
      7·
      11 months ago

      I’m pretty similar to you. Not much interest in technology, I already do it so often during my day-to-day that any more turns me over my breaking point. The main communities I am subscribed to are either picture-related or food-related, hope you can find what you enjoy!

    • Shialac@lemmy.world
      4·
      11 months ago

      tbh I browser All or Local really rarely, I am mostly in my subscribed communities and really like Lemmy

    • WashedOver@lemmy.ca
      2·
      11 months ago

      I too left reddit, and lemmy so far works for going to sleep. It’s a different flavor but it’s still great for helping me drift off… Zzzzz…

    • Darorad@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 months ago

      I wonder if playing around with filtering like top/local (on different instances)/subscribed would make this better. There’s always the block community option, but that doesn’t seem to work well to hide topics and would be a pain to keep on top of.

    • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 months ago

      I am really enjoying the statement on being a straight woman, but unlike the rest of your statements you didn’t elaborate on boobs.

    • aidan@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 months ago

      !politics wants civil discussion and not anger, but it’s hard to encourage that.

  • Iron Lynx@lemmy.world
    109·
    11 months ago

    Same. Though can we also add a button to hide all content pertaining to US state politics? “The governor of Arkansas-” I live in The Netherlands, that shit has no bearing on me

    • panCatQ@lib.lgbtEnglish
      28·
      11 months ago

      Same ! I live in india , but seems like i am wayyy to updated with us political news !ugh

      • Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        11 months ago

        To be fair, I am Lithuanian and a lot of stuff online goes like અને પછી તેઓ કેટલીક અસ્પષ્ટ ભાષા બોલવાનું શરૂ કરે છે

      • Gsus4@feddit.nl
        7·
        11 months ago

        Well, since we’re here, what are the big news where you live these days?

    • Gsus4@feddit.nl
      8·
      11 months ago

      I got used to it, you just need to look at the US as a union of states like Europe, in which case Arkansas is about equivalent to Lithuania in population (although if you correct for the more states and less pop of the US you get Bulgaria or Finland if you use a ranked method) . The same could be done for China, India and Brazil.

        • Gsus4@feddit.nl
          10·
          11 months ago

          Alright, polandball time: I’ll ask around the EU++ who wants to play Arkansas in the school play…if nobody takes it, I’m giving it to Hungary :D because they’re being a dick lately. So, which state do you want? I hear Idaho’s nice :) Germany already took California, France took New York, Italy took Texas, Spain took Florida, the Netherlands took Pennsylvania, Poland took Illinois, Romania got Georgia, Sweden asked for Michigan and Austria asked for Massachusets, Finland got offered Indiana, but picked Arizona, lol etc etc…do you want Wisconsin? Also: UK guest starring as Canada and Turkey as Mexico lol

          • Wahots@pawb.social
            1·
            11 months ago

            Idaho, the mountainous parts, are nice. Some of the people are nice. But in general, Idaho has some of the most batshit insane stuff happening in it in regards to cults and crazy people. It’s been getting crazier in recent years. They were an absolute mess during the pandemic and needed tons of help from other states who then couldn’t look after locals in need.

            • Gsus4@feddit.nl
              1·
              11 months ago

              I was trying to be inclusive, because I’m not american and I don’t want to disparage those places I’ve never been to or know that well…but since you say it…rural states sound like a backwater nightmare :/

      • Ryumast3r@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 months ago

        Didn’t realize Lithuania was under 3 million. For some reason I had it in my head that they were closer to 4-5. Insane.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      5·
      11 months ago

      A huge part of that is american-centric attitudes though. There is the politics sub on Lemmy.world and it’s only for US politics. But it’s not called “usonlypolitics” it’s called “politics”. Somehow they don’t see the problem with that.

      Also the mods are been absolutely bellends about it and are refusing to even acknowledge that that is a problem.

        • Iron Lynx@lemmy.world
          3·
          11 months ago

          Easy to be the world champion in egg handball if you’re the only country that plays that version of egg handball.

    • Biji99@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Which instances local have less content on politics or us politics? Beside lemmynsfw of course

    • lichtmetzger@feddit.deEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      There is surprisingly less of this on the Fediverse. On Reddit I had a massive blocklist with words like Biden, Trump, DeSantos, AOC etc. and I still wasn’t saved from all of the bullshit over in the land of the free.

      I rarely see all of that crap here and it’s honestly very refreshing.

  • Potfarmer@lemmy.world
    76·
    11 months ago

    Give us an option to block memes as well then, my biggest issue with Lemmy is the tsunami of terrible and practically unavoidable memes. I don’t ever see sports content, rarely see NSFW content, there is a fair amount of Elon spam, but really the worst are the memes. Even doing my best to hide the meme communities they are unavoidable.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    62·
    11 months ago

    Is Lemmy just not showing me sports content? I don’t like sports at all and this would bother me if it was constant, but I only see the occasional sports post.

    • glimse@lemmy.world
      25·
      11 months ago

      It was pretty bad for me until I got most of them filtered. There’s a com for every single team, every single league, and more.

      Not quite as prolific as, say, Linux or porn. But there’s a lot of them.

    • outdated_belated@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Same — I don’t recall a single sports-related post — not even a meme. Maybe my instance already defederated from all the home servers of these communities (I think that’s how it works?).

  • UlrikHD@programming.dev
    43·
    11 months ago

    It would be nice if every community had to pick a tag associated with it so that you can automatically filter out communities you have no interest in. E.g. Politics, news, memes, sports, tech, celebrities, TV/Movies, etc…

  • zikk_transport2@lemmy.world
    39·
    11 months ago

    I really wish there could be tags and sub-tags.

    Tag examples:

    • Politics
    • Sport
    • Anime
    • News
    • AI

    Sub-tag examples:

    • US
    • Europe
    • Africa
    • Basketball
    • Volleyball
    • F1

    Some sort of curated list by Lemmy developers that might change over time depending on user demand.

    Then client apps can fetch such list from any server and allow you to apply such filter.

    Imagine being able to block whole category of sports? Anime? News? Whatever people want/don’t want.

        • zikk_transport2@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 months ago

          Yup, developers.

          Instance admins adding such tags would make it inconsistent and basically impossible to use. It should be unified = implemented by Lemmy developers.

          P.S. Developers who develop Lemmy software. Admins who own and manage instance (website/server).

    • guts@lemmy.ml
      3·
      11 months ago

      I think this is the only good thing Tildes has with tags, tags can work as sub-comunities inside a sublemmy.

  • viking@infosec.pub
    39·
    11 months ago

    I’d love a fediverse-wide tagging system for various kinds of NSFW (porn, gore, death…), Sports (ideally also by discipline), Anime, Music (again, with genres), Gaming etc. to hand-pick what I absolutely don’t want to see.

    • _TK@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz
      10·
      11 months ago

      On some Mastodon clients you can block hashtags, and on Lemmy you can block communities, so we’re already pretty close. To do more would require a lot of self-tagging of posts and not everyone will do that. Or it would require analytics and automatic tagging that may not be accurate and would theoretically be a privacy nightmare.

      • Orphie Baby@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        I can never rely on people to self-tag posts. But tagging communities would be much more manageable and helpful.

      • oyenyaaow@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Do it like AO3 and enforce only about a dozen mandatory tags, and allow ‘choose not to tag’ tag if you don’t want to tag, and you can choose to filter out the choose not to tag content…

      • MBM@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 months ago

        Maybe communities should come with default tags. That would make it a lot easier.

  • Gsus4@feddit.nl
    34·
    11 months ago

    I don’t think I’ve seen a single post about sports in Lemmy. Ever. Same with mastodon.

    • Scrollone@feddit.it
      8·
      11 months ago

      I don’t think the group of people interested in sports and the group of tech savvy that use the fediverse overlap that much!

    • Flat Pluto Society@lemmy.world
      7·
      11 months ago

      This is actually my biggest complaint about fedi services. I really love the baseball communities on Reddit (not on Twitter, though, that shit is toxic and often very homophobic), and there’s just not a substitute elsewhere. I would love for baseball Lemmy to take off.

      • RockyBass@lemmy.world
        4·
        11 months ago

        Just a general reminder for folks to generate content. Don’t worry if it doesn’t get a lot of attention yet, the fact that it’s there will bring people in.

  • TeddE@lemmy.world
    32·
    11 months ago

    Honestly, I say we ditch NSFW as a on/off switch and go with a mandatory tagging system. We can clarify NSFW into content warning tags, e.g. CW - Gore, CW - Death, CW - Breast, CW - Genitalia.

    Users could then set their own preferences on which tags would cause a post to be masked or simply hidden.

    But why stop there? Tags could be very useful in our federated environment to help communities mesh better with each other.

    Communities could be able to specify a list of mandatory tags, i.e. the Swallow community could require posts specify African Swallow or European Swallow (or both or neither). Communities could also make some tags implied, so the AfricanSwallow community might just imply that posts are Africian Swallow unless user changes it.

    Underneath the hood, all tags are just treated as part of the post text, so the backend performance impact will be minimal. However moderation tools would be able to consider tags when deciding how to handle a post.

    Of course, the server/instance owner can then simply make a policy of what kinds of content warnings they require, and communities can then build other tags on that to meet their community needs.