Use block community. I do it all the time now even for things I like.
For example I like an occasional cat photo but my lemmy.world page was nothing but cat photos for a week.
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I've got 1322 communities blocked myself π. Still plenty of content to view using either the 'all' feed or my front page.
I also use filters a bunch, which helps with stuff like excessive posts about certain creeps in tech or getting spammed with quasi-duplicate posts across multiple communities that I otherwise want to see content from.
Got a few instances blocked as well - seems like Lemmy has a pretty good set of tools to customize content.
I have 150+ communities blocker blocked
US Defaultism is a thing on the internet. I've seen it plenty here to the point of thinking of starting a USDefaultism community just to make fun of it all.
If it actually bothers you to the point of where you're tired of seeing it, I'd recommend blocking (or filtering, depending on your Lemmy client) some US-centric communities or maybe even instances to bring some more balance in your feed.
Making a community just to make fun of a thing is possibly the most pathetic thing you could do.
Yeah, bad phrasing on my part, sorry. To have a laugh with it, would be a more fitting way to put it. Not necessarily at the expense of the person posting or anything.
Lemme know if you made one
Interested as well
Sure it's annoying but it's a pure population distribution issue, same as for reddit, and unless more of your own countrymen are in here, it's going to stay that way.
Same feeling here.
I've been trying to channel people to [email protected]
[email protected] banning questions about US politics is already helping
Good idea. We should compartmentalise the 4%ers
It'd be nice to be able to block content by keyword, as is possible on Mastodon but alas
The Voyager app can block keywords. I'm not sure about native Lemmy.
I block by keyword using filters in the Connect app myself - works great!
I live in the US and I'm tired as well. Block the communities that keep posting that stuff and hopefully things will be better.
Iβm probably going to post a list of β20 active communities that are not politics, news or techβ on [email protected] later today, your feeling is quite popular
OOT why does this post suddenly gets attention after a month
Every social media site is just US politics, like that's all there is. Left wing sites are only used by people who reduce themselves to being transgender or π§©, and right wing sites are only used by people who reduce themselves to being transphobic and eugenicist. Do you want your Donald Trump celebrity gossip with more slurs or less?
(The only website where you can have genuine fun is Neocities.)