Programming.dev is nice a community and overall i like the content I get when i stay on my local instance.
The moment i am switching to “all” everything becomes extremely left leaning and too politicised for my taste.
Is there a way to block all the communist/anarchist/anti-capitalist stuff, or this is Lemmy in general?
Right now, if you can’t handle having to block communities you don’t like, then ALL isn’t the place for you.
Lemmyverse.net is a great directory to find content.
Anti-capitalism was already a big thing on Reddit but being so pro Russia/ China seems to be a Lemmy thing. I wouldn’t call the latter left but rather morons.
Just don’t switch to “all”, that’s it. Pretty much any platform that has more than 1.5 users and allows any political discussions is doomed to be filled with extreme politics
It’s not Lemmy it’s mostly lemmy.ml and lemmygrad, two of the biggest instances. As both name’s imply both are communist in nature but both host communities for multiple topics since they where the most active instances. The Lemmy Devs originally created Lemmy due to Reddit banning/quarantining multiple leftist subreddits around 2018/2019 and created lemmy.ml as the first instance. Don’t know the history behind lemmygrad but it’s a communist instance nonetheless.
I think that “all” of anything is going to be a dumpster fire no matter what your standards are. Sturgeon said that 90% of everything is crud. What he didn’t say was that everyone has their own opinion on which 10% is worth anything.
Or you could put on your hip waders and follow Kipling into the waters looking for the 20% that makes it worthwhile to wade through the other 80%.
(More at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law, including a link to the actual text of what Kipling said.)
With boost on reddit I would just block any subreddits that I felt was just noise. Any American centered subreddits (mostly politics), NSFW subreddits (back when those showed up in r/all), niche meme stuff like that deep fried stuff, etc… You could also block keywords like “elon” and “trump”. It actually made r/all a decent experience to browse through.
If it isn’t already a feature on lemmy, hopefully it will soon. I much prefer letting the user do the filtering than the nuclear option that is defederating. Boost for lemmy is also on the way so I expect that to be an option once the app launches.
Is your instance not blocking lemmy.ml? Seems to be the smart thing to do nowadays.
What? That’s a big instance and most are federating with it (including your instance, kbin, and programming.dev). OTOH lemmygrad is blocked almost everywhere, including on lemmy.ml.
Maybe i was just thinking of beehaw, I remember some drama at first and how .ml had a bad rep too. It’s same owners as lemmygrad, no?
