In another thread, I read a user's comment about how the lemmy experience has got progressively worse over the past few months, with a lot more trash content making it to their front page.

Is this your experience? How was lemmy when you joined and how do you think it's changed?

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[–] Icaria@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's hard to avoid the US politics. Worse than reddit in that regard, it is giving me flashbacks to 2008 Digg where every second thing on the front page was about Obama and Ron Paul.

[–] settoloki@lemmy.one 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm having no issues avoiding American politics. When I started Lemmy I just used all and blocked any communities that put out stuff I didn't want to see, politics, furry porn etc now my all feed is pretty well curated, my experience with 12 years on Reddit was not the same I couldn't avoid the American politics, as people posted them in subs where they had no business being.

[–] Lazylazycat@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I had to blacklist words like "trump" on reddit, it was too much.

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well thats gonna be the case for as long as lemmy is mostly populated by renegade reddit users, no? Gotta have a larger userbase to provide a more varied degree of content

[–] imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah for sure, we have a lot of growing ahead of us before Lemmy truly establishes its own culture.

I would say that my personal experience has been that there is a significantly higher proportion of non-American Lemmings, as opposed to redditors. Like if reddit is 50% American, my feeling is that Lemmy is closer to 30% American. You can even tell when the Europeans wake up and are active, because they comprise such a large portion of the userbase.

It's hard for me to assess if that is reflected in the political content, because I always mostly ignored communities of that type, both on reddit and here.