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How do I curate American politics out of my communities? Genuinely wondering.
block the politics communities
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?
Use software that lets you block keywords
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
That is a very dishonest framing of the discussion so far.
The original complaint was about Lemmy as a whole, which is why my initial response was tailored to that complaint. Your initial reply to me was also very broad and didn't mention news at all. It's only after I made a suggestion that you shifted the goalposts by claiming it didn't work for your use case - Lemmy as a news source - which you failed to mention up front when you were "genuinely wondering" how you could remove US politics from your feed.
OP's thread is about american politics being everywhere, if you read a sentence beyond the title. I did not change the subject from that.
I guess we have different definitions of curation. To me that's a way of filtering out stuff so only what is of interest remains. To you apparently curating means not using the platform at all, and replacing it with a different platform that will just have the same issue again.
Also, me using lemmy as a news source is not changing the goal post, it is asking for specifics on how to implement your proposed solution. If you say that getting US-centric content is a user issue because they are lazy to curate, and then I ask you how to actually apply that in practice, that's still the same discussion.
So maybe to simplify and go back to the original subject. You say generic big communities are bad and you block them to avoid what OP is complaining about and this is a solution that all non-lazy people should do. Can you recommend some communities here that can provide similar content to the big generic (worldnews/tech/politics/entertainment) communities that don't have US centric content or bias instead? Or are you saying something else altogether and you don't have a solution for the problem and I misunderstood again?
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If you're looking for guarantees you're gonna be disappointed bud
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.
Filter users that post about it and keywords related to it
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