I do the exact same as you. At least on my Kbin instance, going in All and Local opens me up to outrage bait, and doom-and-gloom “big corporation and alt-right bad” news. I agree wholeheartedly with “big corporation and alt-right bad” and that they’re the cause of too many of the world’s big serious problems. I’d also rather spend my time on Kbin enjoying what I see instead of getting mad. I can already find out what horrible thing a corporation or alt-right politician has done from the regular news, without the understandable but exhausting comment chain of outrage.

Except on a few topic-specific instances, where the local communities are only about that topic. There I will actually use Local as default. No outrage bait or doom-and-gloom news, just all things about whatever topic the instance is dedicated to that I happen to be interested in.