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Lemmy, and .ml in particular is absolutely infested with right wing trolls hiding behind the thinnest veneer of leftism who are trying to doom post over the economy and geopolitics hoping young voters will check out and not vote.
It's literally the exact same playbook from 2016, and it's amazing more people don't see it.
I find I miss a lot of current events, only browsing Lemmy. It seems Lazer-focused on whatever it's currently worrying about, ignoring more timely news.
A lot of the "interesting" posts on Reddit were created by bots. A LOT of bots.
In that case, isn't it sad that bots are producing better content than the Lemmy community?
They aren't producing anything. They're reposters, not content creators.
Who said bots aren't also spitting out trash Lemmy content? Seems to be the case to me
[email protected] has been on fire lately and comments can spark some good learnin
Thanks for the suggestion!
Absolutely. I second the heavy use of blocking communities using an app. If you still want exposure to news you can consider downloading a couple news apps and checking them once or twice a day. You will still see the shittier aspects of humanity but at least you can do it when you choose to.
Connect on Android has been key for tidying up my feed and allowing blocks by user, community, or instance.
Seconded, I'm loving Connect.
Good point. I should stop using my social media as my news outlet.
I recommend going in heavy with the community and user blocking. Manually curating your feed is the only way to make social media even barely tolerable. You'll feel some FOMO at first thinking that by blocking you're going to miss something. Yes you are but you also wont know what you're missing so it doesn't matter. Personally I have set several content filters aswell so threads about Elon, Twitter, Reddit, Trump, Taylor Swift etc. get automatically hidden.
On top of this I have around 500 blocked users and about the same amount of instances (mostly porn and foreign ones) I sometimes see a thread with more replies than what I'm seeing or that a blocked user has commented on my message. When I log out to see what it is, my conclusion virtually every time is that "yep, you're staying blocked"
My niche communities aren't active enough so I resort to browsing All.
Beehaw exist for a reason.
So go and be the change you want to see. Lemmy is not so big that you can't make a difference.
