Not sure if this is the right place to post, but when the reddit protests were happening, I used Lemmy for a bit then decided to detox from "social media" for a while till now. Am I misinterpreting the activity here?

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I tried not opening Lemmy the last few weeks because of the flood of American politics. I'm sure many people felt the same.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Do you use all or subscribe to things? I have a good list of communities and I honestly don't see much if any politics

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

All, yes. And I have blocked most of the communities that call themselves "News" or similar, but almost only post US politics as news. Yet it still trickles down into other communities.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Try going the other route, and explicitly subscribing to content you enjoy. From what I read you aren't alone, that all is a firehouse and it's not all fun. Subscribed to me is a much chiller experience

[–] morgan_423@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

This is exactly it. I glance at All on Lemmy for maybe 2% of my time here, primarily to see if I can discover a new community that I didn't previously know about to add to my collection.

But it's true. The real Lemmy experience is in your subscribed communities.

[–] Cpo@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

Amazing way to approach it!

Just a wee bit afraid there would be just porn left after applying the "subscribe to me" rule 😉