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Be the change you want to see. This is your time to shine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyGx3m1gPZI
Also, consider switching to Piefed to be able to use the built-in keyword filter. I haven't seen US news since using it.
Along with the newcomers comm I'm thinking about making those as default comms that new people are subscribed to.
Gotta balance out the doom.
Good idea!
Done!
Thanks!
You know, I had an idea for another keywords filter for feeds. It works in reverse. You type in keywords you want to see in posts and it then makes you a feed comprised of posts of that nature.
Doesn't mastodon have that? You type in a keyword and then you add it as a "user."
That would be nice
@rimu@piefed.social is this something hypothetically possible?
Sure.
You'd probably end up seeing very few posts, though. Rather than filtering the timeline it might work best as a "notify me when posts with these keywords appear" function.
Well depends on the keywords. If one was to make a feed for Trump it would come up a lot. But the idea would be you could combine multiple keywords, so you might have a dozen or so.
I blocked all the news channels, location channels (since they're 90% news anyways), and a few extra that kept getting bad news related comments or trollish crap, and the top feeds are usually pretty good. They don't change too much over a day, but at least it no longer feels like doomscrolling.
It's great that we can individually curate our feeds but what I think the person you replied to is highlighting is that the first impressions a new user may get is repetitive doomer content. That's the nature of sorting by all and our instance-based approach, but it's definitely an experience which may put new people off
Yea it is definitely a bit offputting. I'm not sure what the fix is given the world is quite shit right now. Most news is going to be less than great, so I guess we need more non-news content to help drown out the BS.
i dont block news channels, just the POLITICS on worlds. it was problematic enough in my lemmy.ee account they misinterpeted my comments as being anti-semitic/not being pro-israel, when i was calling out seinfeld and his wife as as a israeli shill that was agitating protests in the campuses. plus i detect alot of tankies, tankies adjacent on that communities too. news i dont have problem with discuss similar issues. of course any stray users that are tankies i will block too, and then people that try to disguise thier comments as helpful but is actually be super condescending.
Yeaaahhh, tankies are a pretty big issue on Lemmy, sadly... They don't seem to understand they're the equivalent of a dumbass redneck screeching about what ever false 'fact' they heard on Fox News, but from a supposed left framing...
Part of the reason I blocked news, too. Not only do I not want to doomscroll, but I don't want to get in an argument over how the news isn't so bad actually and Russia/China/Mao totally already have a solution we just need to implement or some such shit. (ok bad generic, but it's hard to generalize their flavor of fake enlightenment. lol)
Almost as bad as the libertarians that think deregulating capitalism is the perfect solution to every problem.
Nail, meet head. This is the Lemmy experience.
Reddit was big enough for people to have different interests and, here is the kicker, the subreddit system was a perfect way to separate the people that didn't give a shit about a subject and those that did.
There was life besides /all
If you remove /all from Lemmy you have, maybe, 3-4 communities that post with any regularity. Within those there are maybe 2 people in total that post.
It's turning to shit. A complete and utter echo chamber.
I don't know that a lack of users across the platform to support nicher topics necessarily justifies the charge of "echo chamber". They are two different things.
Because the only ones that are left post the same shit over, and over again. When people leave because the feed gets repetitive, they also leave the niche that they might have been interested in.
Then you get an echo chamber.
Well it's just that politics/news are the two main things that most people can talk about. So that's what trends. Many other topics have general interest barriers that naturally have lower ceiling of interests from the roughly 40k active users.
No, its the fact that the same couple of people post across all communitys and drown everything else. I wouldn't be opposed to a daily limit of posts, just to bring the noise down. The only reason i still come here is for the rare, once a week, quality post.
Use "scaled" to see more or smaller communities ?
That's not logistically possible given each instance has its own rules.
But also, at the same time it seems self-evident to me that most of the 40k people here can talk about politics. Most are from the Anglosphere and the daily goings-on are relevant to them in some way. It seems also evident to me that less people here can talk about fishing, or baking because it's of less interest to them. Reddit, by comparison, has a much larger population.
I'm also looking at /all/ and seeing a variety of names.
Stamets, byteonbikes, mtz, lady butterfly, track_shovel.
When you start seeing it, you can't unsee it.
Yeah I see them. I also see some other names too. Small places need active 'power posters'.
Block them if you don't like their posts ?
Ah yes. The common solution to everything. Make my own little universe where everyone and everything is perfect and everyone agrees with me.
I keep things unblocked for a reason.
You are presented with a tool to make the social media you want to see and instead you're just complaining that it isn't in your perfect picture. All the while, not really posting much yourself. You just want more people to post and people like me to post less but you won't do anything to make the social media you want to see. Seems like this is kinda all on you here. You refused to make your bed. Lie in it. Because you know the social media I wanna see? One that attracts people. That's why I post a bunch. To fill the space because people like you just complain and don't do anything.
So honestly? Just put up or shush.
Well said
I certainly could spend my time shitposting and making things worse for you guys, but unlike you I don't actually think that every news article from newsweek or the daily beast is worth regurgitating.
I am commenting on what would make it better and in general bring up the level of debate, even if i have to act Devils Advocate in every single thread it seems.
Then post what you think is valuable.
You've really got this all or nothing mindset, huh? "I HAVE TO POST EVERYTHING ALL DAY SO THEREFORE I POST NOTHING"
K. Whatever you say, sweetie. Have fun with that <3
Edit: lol
https://lemmy.world/modlog?userId=752415
Yes? I see nothing wrong in those posts. Are you gonna ban me for calling you out too?
Of course you don't. But the rest of us kinda do with you using ableist slurs, trolling and rejecting the basic rules of most communities to simply be respectful.
How is calling out lies and hypocrisy against the rules exactly? If you'll look again, you'll note that I'm never the one that starts hurling insults. Yet their insults never lead to bans. Funny how that works.
Their behavior does not excuse yours. You still did it. Also, again, ableist slurs and trolling. You guilty.
Edit: lol. Lmao even.
People attack me constantly on Lemmy if I suggest to look at the positive a little more.
THE BEATINGS SHALL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES
depends on what and how you say it. people on reddit says, or suggest positive things but its more like insulting intelligence than offering advice.