• thebeardedpotato@lemmy.worldEnglish
      284·
      1 month ago

      LOL

      I was actually thinking about my experience with Lemmy as I was reading this article, particularly how the scrolling is made to generate rage. I don’t filter my feed and just view “all”, but I don’t think I’ve once walked away from Lemmy not in a bad mood.

      Now that may be observation bias or something, or a function of how I don’t tailor my own experience, but regardless, Lemmy leaves me angrier when I leave then when I open the app. I’m trying to cut back and eventually quit.

      • mesa@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        You can also set filters in some clients. And other micro feed like software (piefed) can put filters for your user.

        Or browse by new. Seems to work for me.

  • spikey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    1 month ago

    I was so fed up with IG and explored mastodon/pixelfed for a bit, and it felt like a lot of weight off my shoulder when looking at the feed(s) knowing that there is no machinery feeding me straightup BS. The “feed” was behaving exactly as it used to during the days when RSS was a thing (remember those?).

    like… wow… I have control over this! and I don’t have to spend too much energy filtering off BS. That convinced to explore alternatives like Lemmy.

    I joined today. :)

      • spikey@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        can you elaborate? or should I assume that means I can’t follow “communities” from privacy instances?

        • Vivian (they/them)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          5·
          1 month ago

          *piracy

          Yes, that’s one of the restrictions. I also think you can’t see your users’ comments. (perhaps posts too, I am uncertain)

          If you’re not interested in following something there or it’s not a topic you’re interested in, it’s alright. You could always create another account somewhere else or browse their instance anonymously.

          The good thing about Lemmy is that you can always switch to another instance in the future. I started for a few months on .world and then moved to lemmy.blahaj.zone.

          Welcome! I hope you have a great time here and I’m glad people are moving :)

  • The Pantser@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    1 month ago

    I brows Lemmy by all and then I filter out the communities I don’t want to see. This lets me see the new communities that pop up and decided if I want to sub to them. I have around 300 blocked.

    • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      Yeah sometimes there is some overzealous people making some quite strange communities by the handfull at one go though, but yeah, blocking everything you don’t like is the way to go IMO too.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 month ago

    Or you can aggressively tailor them. I still use FB because I enjoy several industry and hobby groups there. With a few FF plugins and proactively closing any ads, FB is completely usable and enjoyable.

    Any social media you can’t control like this is definitely problematic, but I haven’t explored too many other platforms to see if they can be tailored. I did abandon Threads because it’s a right wing toxic troll hellhole with a shitty design, so some can’t be “fixed”.