I hope this is a good place for this. A few weeks ago I started a simple experiment: Block every community in the All feed that is about the US election in some way.

I thought this up after a thread about the Biden debate, as someone kindly (not really kindly) informed me that I should curate my own experience here. I thought about it and realized just how much election/politics stuff there is on the front page. It was quite hard blocking communities I like, especially 196 on blahaj.

Now the quality of my feed did go up in some ways but it’s very slow. I also realized that I am feeling a lot less rage/anger than before when scrolling lemmy. I didn’t even realize how much the constant political stuff from another continent affected me…

What is your opinion on this? Is Lemmy really filled with too much US political rage bait? Should I continue with my zero tolerance policy?

It would also interest me to hear an American perspective. Is there more or less politics here, on other platforms or real life. How does rage/hate affect you when scrolling through Lemmy and does it take a toll?

  • Blaze (he/him)
    12·
    4 months ago

    IMO, a very noticeable percentage of our users are also arrogant jerks. The kind of users who only reply with snark or criticism, and never add anything positive. You look at their history, and its just comment after comment crapping on others. I have blocked several of these sniping assholes.

    Unfortunately, that’s correct

    • deranger@sh.itjust.works
      71·
      4 months ago

      I have been here for a year and I’ve only run into a couple assholes. I get more upvotes and good comment replies here than I ever did on Reddit. Maybe it’s the communities I’m subscribed to, or maybe I’m being more choosy with what I comment on, but regardless I enjoy my interactions on Lemmy significantly more than other social media / link aggregators.

      • Blaze (he/him)
        2·
        4 months ago

        Oh, I have a similar experience, but there are still a few unpleasant people