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Too much US election content on Lemmy? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago by weker01@sh.itjust.works to c/general@lemmy.world
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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?

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[–] weker01@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am definitely on the hope side of things. Lemmy has extreme potential for growth. Just not explosive fast growth. I believe the strength of Lemmy could be "natural" growth as the threat of the platform going downhill is smaller.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well said, and it is Lemmy's greatest strength. Hopefully the devs can implement some kind of automated instance replication, or mirroring, or migration...for those scenarios where a beleaguered admin wants out.

[–] weker01@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Being able to host the same community over multiple servers would be great. Or having the same account on multiple servers. And I'm not talking about subscriptions but upvotes, posts, comments. That stuff is afaik not transferrable at the moment.

Right now I lost all my posts and comments when feddit.de went kaputt.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

Massively importing huge amount of data could be a security issue. Mastodon doesn't do it either

Mastodon currently does not support importing posts or media due to technical limitations

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/