I really love community-driven social media like Reddit. Lemmy feels… too small. I really loved that Reddit let me jump into any niche hobby, and instantly I had a community. Lemmy, you’ll be lucky if that community even exists, and if it does, chances are nobody has posted in ages.

On the other hand, Lemmy is full of political content lately. I’ve basically been doom scrolling everything US election-related, and it’s really starting to take a toll on my mental health.

I know I can filter content. I know I can post and be the change I seek. Yet, it feels like an uphill battle.

Not sure what the point of this is, or if it’s even the right community to vent about this. I just really want to replace Reddit, but I find myself going back more and more (e.g. r/homekit is very active compared to Lemmy version).

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[–] Blaze@feddit.org 74 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Feel free to block communities with political content.

You can also use an app or alternative frontend to filter keywords. !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca has a post about that.

For communities, !newcommunities@lemmy.world can help

For home kit, the Apple communities are probably more active, and you should be able to post about it there too

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 4 days ago (2 children)

To add to this using these two features has really helped remove a lot of the threads that were taking a toll on my mental health from my feed.

[–] R3D4CT3D@midwest.social 7 points 4 days ago

definitely agree. this has helped save my sanity in recent times.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

How do I do this? Because honestly, yeah, I've come to a point where I'm realizing that, while it's my responsibility to do what I can in the world, it is not my responsibility to just bear witness to suffering when I can do nothing to prevent it. All it's doing it hurting me for no gains to anyone.

[–] Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago

One of the front ends that have keyword filtering is voyager.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

https://voyager.slrpnk.net/

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 6 points 4 days ago

And if the user uses Mbin instances, he/she can even block posts that link to other domains, as often political posts link to news sites.