Stop using lemmy, use piefed or mbin. They have better filters. I have blocked anything and everything related to us politics and it’s been pretty good. Mastodon is filled with US people and their dumb topics though. It’s good I don’t like the way mastodon presents stuff because I find it impossible to navigate and follow discussions. Threads are way better
Have you considered it’s not the space you hate but the people who occupy it? Try as hard as you may, you will not find a place for people to talk without finding people talking.
err yeah? it’s the people here who I don’t get along with because I have hobbies outside of American politics, I have no issues on reddit or whirlpool or other places
trust me I definitely use it, however fundamentally this is taking a place that has like 3 hobbies (American politics, Linux and Left Wing Progressive/American politics) and making it even smaller, this was supposed to be an alternative to reddit but it has like 7 active comms that aren’t somehow related to the above 3, even Lemmy Shitpost is filled with American/Left Wing Politics ALL the time
You’re going to say next: be the change you seek and I am however I am a drop in the American ocean
Im pretty active in cooking/gardening/gaming. Dont post much about politics, honestly cuz Im afraid of the surveilence state… so I avoid comment mostly in that topic and lurk. Seems okay to me, I dont often fight with anyone.
It’s what you make it. Post about your hobbies, remain positive, and youll get that back; Not only here, but it works this way in life mostly too. No one cares where youre from in the comm types I mentioned. Post youre aussie garden. My favorite garden video I ever saw was a fella from Australia. His garden was gorgeous and he was cool af.
why don’t you bring all your rightwing friends and make it the place you want it to be, this place sucks for you because it works with people actually doing things. You want work done for you, go back to reddit
Do you need to be rightwing to get annoyed by boring bland statements that get repeated over and over and over and over and over again that oversimplify and frame everything as the pure evil that cannot be convinced to change vs us
Even if you agree with them, do they not annoy you?
I don’t know what that means sorry, can you explain further?
A quick look at your profile shows you’re clearly in your zone here (American politics, Linux and Left Wing Progressive/American politics) so that’s good for you at least?
Yeah it looked great until the creator of it went on a mad dash banning everyone he didn’t like for wrongthink, not quite sure how your message came through to me I’m pretty sure I was banned for every ism under the sun
It’s especially ironic when I get called a right wing American when I detest America, the level of thought here is the most primitive I’ve ever seen on an internet forum “agree with me or you are nazi”
So here I sit, Lemmy has chased away all the normal people and left people like the above who say things like “why don’t you bring all your rightwing friends” when I don’t have rightwing friends, I have friends with hobbies outside of American politics, Linux and Left Wing Progressive/American politics, and if I dare complain about the lack of interesting content here it’s because I am lazy and not doing enough :\
Rimu basically went nuts and made a List, like The List from the Tesseract guy. Except this one was baked at the code level of the software running the backend of the communities, so communities got forced to ban left-wing aligned content on update without a choice in the matter. Plus, the software had CCP-style shadow profiling of people to hide their posts, and in at least one known case editorializing someone’s posts on client view, without the poster being made aware that their content was being editorialized (essentially, attributing them false speech).
If you search for rimu you’ll quickly find all sorts of interesting threads and comments, that said I thought he banned me but it looks like I mixed up rimu mass banning from piefed.social and teseract mass shadowbanning users
it’s funny because I thought coming from reddit there would be less moderation but instead it looks like the opposite has happened
Shout out to piefed for promoting this thread though:
don’t waste your money EFF this place sucks
Then why are you here?
limited non-american spaces online + i ask myself the same thing every day
Stop using lemmy, use piefed or mbin. They have better filters. I have blocked anything and everything related to us politics and it’s been pretty good. Mastodon is filled with US people and their dumb topics though. It’s good I don’t like the way mastodon presents stuff because I find it impossible to navigate and follow discussions. Threads are way better
Have you considered it’s not the space you hate but the people who occupy it? Try as hard as you may, you will not find a place for people to talk without finding people talking.
err yeah? it’s the people here who I don’t get along with because I have hobbies outside of American politics, I have no issues on reddit or whirlpool or other places
It can improve if you use the block button liberally, especially on mastodon
trust me I definitely use it, however fundamentally this is taking a place that has like 3 hobbies (American politics, Linux and Left Wing Progressive/American politics) and making it even smaller, this was supposed to be an alternative to reddit but it has like 7 active comms that aren’t somehow related to the above 3, even Lemmy Shitpost is filled with American/Left Wing Politics ALL the time
You’re going to say next: be the change you seek and I am however I am a drop in the American ocean
Im pretty active in cooking/gardening/gaming. Dont post much about politics, honestly cuz Im afraid of the surveilence state… so I avoid comment mostly in that topic and lurk. Seems okay to me, I dont often fight with anyone.
It’s what you make it. Post about your hobbies, remain positive, and youll get that back; Not only here, but it works this way in life mostly too. No one cares where youre from in the comm types I mentioned. Post youre aussie garden. My favorite garden video I ever saw was a fella from Australia. His garden was gorgeous and he was cool af.
Ooh can I get links to those comms
why don’t you bring all your rightwing friends and make it the place you want it to be, this place sucks for you because it works with people actually doing things. You want work done for you, go back to reddit
Do you need to be rightwing to get annoyed by boring bland statements that get repeated over and over and over and over and over again that oversimplify and frame everything as the pure evil that cannot be convinced to change vs us
Even if you agree with them, do they not annoy you?
I don’t know what that means sorry, can you explain further?
A quick look at your profile shows you’re clearly in your zone here (American politics, Linux and Left Wing Progressive/American politics) so that’s good for you at least?
You might find that Piefed makes it easier to curate your feed. It has keyword filters which for me makes all the difference.
Yeah it looked great until the creator of it went on a mad dash banning everyone he didn’t like for wrongthink, not quite sure how your message came through to me I’m pretty sure I was banned for every ism under the sun
It’s especially ironic when I get called a right wing American when I detest America, the level of thought here is the most primitive I’ve ever seen on an internet forum “agree with me or you are nazi”
So here I sit, Lemmy has chased away all the normal people and left people like the above who say things like “why don’t you bring all your rightwing friends” when I don’t have rightwing friends, I have friends with hobbies outside of American politics, Linux and Left Wing Progressive/American politics, and if I dare complain about the lack of interesting content here it’s because I am lazy and not doing enough :\
What happened with the creator of piefed?
Rimu basically went nuts and made a List, like The List from the Tesseract guy. Except this one was baked at the code level of the software running the backend of the communities, so communities got forced to ban left-wing aligned content on update without a choice in the matter. Plus, the software had CCP-style shadow profiling of people to hide their posts, and in at least one known case editorializing someone’s posts on client view, without the poster being made aware that their content was being editorialized (essentially, attributing them false speech).
If you search for rimu you’ll quickly find all sorts of interesting threads and comments, that said I thought he banned me but it looks like I mixed up rimu mass banning from piefed.social and teseract mass shadowbanning users
it’s funny because I thought coming from reddit there would be less moderation but instead it looks like the opposite has happened
Shout out to piefed for promoting this thread though:
https://piefed.social/c/[email protected]/p/2333032/announcing-the-threadiverse-vibrancy-challenge-sep-1-30-2026
By all means, do leave.