Comment on Lemmy is one of the most annoying social media sites if you're not an american

• sour@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  block the politics communities

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  • Kaldo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The thread and OP are talking about specifically too much American politics and news, not all politics and news. How do I "stop being lazy" and specifically curate American politics out of my feed?

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    • awwwyissss@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Use software that lets you block keywords

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    • NightAuthor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s hard bc we don’t have an extensive suite of filters, curation tools. We’ll get there eventually. Though idk if kbin or lemmy is going to move forward on features more quickly. Isn’t kbin largely a single developer?

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• Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t use All. Or if you do, block communities that are repeat offenders. With all social media I just stick to communities I am specifically interested in. Those generic, catch-all feeds that reddit popularised are absolute cancer and I have no idea why people flock to them. By their very nature they are full of doom scrollers who have little to no interest or experience in the topic of discussion, which usually leads to a lot of uneducated, low effort, bad faith comments from people who are preoccupied with inserting their political beliefs into everything.

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  • Kaldo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If I just block all (world)news communities with american politics I'm just going to end up not getting any news at all. I care about stuff like tech news for example but some of the recent articles there are "U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Sues Tesla over Racial Abuse of Black Workers" or "The NYPD is deploying a 420-pound robocop to roam Times Square's subway station".

    The implication you made was that if I stop being lazy I can curate american politics out of my feed. If your answer is to just block all news sources from my feed than that's not a solution at all.

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    • Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why are you relying on social media for news? Just get it direct from the source and you can skip the American bias that is inherent on all English language social media platforms.

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      • Kaldo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It sounds to me like you are now moving the goalpost from 'don't be lazy, curate communities on lemmy' to 'block everything and go somewhere else for news'. Even if I do that, which is not what you initially said that can be done if I stop being lazy... What guarantee is there that other news outlets won't be US centric / biased?

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• Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I use sync and I can block instances, communities, user and even filter out words. I would filter “Trump”, “Republican”, “PP”, etc. When I see it often and is annoying I’ll filter it out. Like when memes community were too much for me they all get blocked.

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• Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  which

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• Esqplorer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Filter users that post about it and keywords related to it

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