It seems like no matter how I scroll I find bad news. I know lots of things are happening but I just want funny memes and interesting stories.

I used to be able to get this back in the day on the Reddit app feed, but here the all page is always just depressing stuff. Back then, there was news and stuff but like it felt more balanced in the all feed. I could get bad stuff but lots of interesting stuff too .

I find myself engaging less and less and just avoiding Lemmy more and more since I know the moment I open it I’ll get whacked with more depressing stuffs.

I don’t want politics or world news or really even memes about that stuff anymore. Heck even tech news is depressing. I just want simple scrolling of fun content. Idk it’s just hard to describe.

Does anyone else feel this way about their Lemmy experience?

I remember an old post about someone getting AM radio from their sink (probably from Reddit back in the day). That type of stuff is so much cooler than my feed.

To that end: any recommended active communities on Lemmy with that type of stuff?

  • thezeesystem
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    4 days ago

    I use voyager and block words phrases and instances that bring that stuff up. And sometimes users who repeatedly do it too.

    I’m also on Lemmy blahaj which don’t know if that matters. But over time I rarely have a lot of depressing political things in my feed anymore. Just every so often.

    I have another account on Lemmy world for political things already I rarely use it.

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      I’m also on Lemmy blahaj which don’t know if that matters

      It does. If your home instance blocks other instances then you’ll never see their posts, regardless of your settings.

      I don’t believe there’s a native way to see these blocks in Lemmy, you’d have to look at a third party site that tracks that sort of thing.

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        If your instance blocks other instances, they are listed on the “blocked” tab of the Instances page (the link is in the footer).

        E.g. for lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/instances

        Remember that spam instances are a thing, and are often what is being blocked by admins.