It’s better if you untick “show read posts” in your lemmy settings.

I made a list of casual communities on Lemmy awhile ago https://lemmy.world/post/2216085 just subscribe to stuff you like and curate your own feed. Block the politics subs. Boom.

Lobsters has blocked the Brave browser since a scam in 2019. We still block it because they lie about following standards so they scrape and sell copies of websites. I’m sorry for the inconvenience, but they have previously targeted Lobsters by name and have a years-long pattern of bad behavior.

Well, that’s a new one. What you see if you visit it via Brave Browser.

Sync is outdated and will be broken in a future Lemmy update, some features already don’t work (such as hiding read posts, they’re meant to stay hidden but they don’t in Sync). I’d suggest trying out Boost for Lemmy, Summit, Thunder, Jerboa, Eternity - roughly in that order.

this entire article is about a single tweet some guy made as a joke

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People are losing their minds over this title but the content itself isn’t that big of a deal. It’s a completely optional and ignorable feature that’s tied into something you probably won’t be clicking on anyway.

Finishing work

my weird fun fact about Myanmar is that a small region of it in the east (Wa State) is a de-facto independent military-communist dictator state.

oh there’s uh, lots, lots more than just 2 groups fighting it out in Myanmar. It’s a really complex conflict that’ll probably never fully resolve.

Apple Music in its current form is basically a direct evolution out of iTunes. It’s a very old feature.

Don’t let imperfection get in the way of progress. If you move slightly towards the left, you’re opening doors for more left ideology.

Without electoral reform, there’s no functional reason to. The lesser evil of the current system is Democrats. If you want to enact change, push support for the progressive wing of the party and push for electoral reform.

Lemmy is definitely rough if you’re into niche communities, true. So was Reddit in its early years though, to be fair.

That’s not true. I’ve got a pretty active feed of subs, you just need to spend time curating a good list

Just like Reddit, you need to curate your feed. Don’t browser all/local, browse your subscriptions. Here’s a list of subs that aren’t political https://lemmy.world/post/16327122 - subscribe to ones that interest you.

Also feel free to liberally block communities. It’s trivial to do.

My absolute favourite is when your password is too long but they don’t tell you that, I guess because they weren’t expecting it. It only causes a hitch when you later try to login and it doesn’t let you …

It’s also worth ensuring you have at least both “Undetermined” and “English” selected as your languages in your settings.

I find Lemmy isn’t super at pushing newer content at the top, and you have to just mix between the different sorts. The content is definitely there. The alternative way to mitigate this is as follows:

• In my settings I have “show read posts” unticked. This ensues posts I interact with (e.g click on, vote on) with disappear from my feed afterwards (upon refresh/reload, of course). I don’t think it clears posts that have appeared in your feed but you haven’t interacted with. This is extremely effective in keeping your feed fresh.
• When browsing on my phone (Boost For Lemmy), I make frequent use of its “hide all read” button to quickly gut anything on my feed that I’ve seen before (no interaction needed).
• You can, of course, just manually hide posts as you go but uh, the above methods are better at automating that process for you.

I used to get really annoyed with stale feeds but upon doing the above it’s pretty much always fresh content.

That said, it won’t hurt to subscribe to more communities!

Sure.