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Advice on making Lemmy a valuable & psychologically healthy experience? (self.nosurf)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by tributarium to c/[email protected]

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Being federated doesn't make Lemmy psychologically healthy, it's still a descendant of a design paradigm meant to extract your attention. Every time I see something I didn't want to see, that's a moment of effort to redirect my attention back to things I consider worthwhile. I only have so much time and so much effort. A large part of me just wants to call it quits but I need a way to talk about stuff I can't talk to anyone IRL about, so I'm trying it for now.

I really don't like that the default page (at least on lemmy.world) is "all." I'd like to turn off that page or mass block almost every community but I don't know that the technology exists to do either of those.

Anything folks do to waste less time & make Lemmy work for them?

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[–] ddonuts4 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I currently have 250 communities and 20-something instances blocked, along with and 20-something filtered words such as "slams", "blasts", "Biden", "democrats", "republicans", and "trump".

I also subscribe to more interest based or generally positive communities like Android, cats, aww, bread, dadjokes, etc that way I avoid the main ones that are just people complaining about politics and capitalism. Sometimes it leaks out into these anyways but it's a lot better

I also just GTFO Lemmy if there's nothing interesting today