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Is there a way to have a less depressing Lemmy experience?

It seems like no matter how I scroll I find bad news. I know lots of things are happening but I just want funny memes and interesting stories.

I used to be able to get this back in the day on the Reddit app feed, but here the all page is always just depressing stuff. Back then, there was news and stuff but like it felt more balanced in the all feed. I could get bad stuff but lots of interesting stuff too .

I find myself engaging less and less and just avoiding Lemmy more and more since I know the moment I open it I'll get whacked with more depressing stuffs.

I don't want politics or world news or really even memes about that stuff anymore. Heck even tech news is depressing. I just want simple scrolling of fun content. Idk it's just hard to describe.

Does anyone else feel this way about their Lemmy experience?

I remember an old post about someone getting AM radio from their sink (probably from Reddit back in the day). That type of stuff is so much cooler than my feed.

To that end: any recommended active communities on Lemmy with that type of stuff?

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  • Does anyone else feel this way about their Lemmy experience?

    The out of the box experience is not great (neither is Reddit, if you're asking me, it's at least as depressing to see the amount of trash/low effort posts on their home page). But once I switched to 'Subscribed' only view, things were already much better since I was only seeing content I was interested in (aka no politics or drama of any sort).

    As already suggested: [email protected] is good place to see what's new, also there is [email protected]

    Most importantly, Lemmy is not Reddit for many reasons but this one is more directly related to your question: it's much smaller (to give you an idea, I moderate a journaling community we recently reached... 300 members (of which less than a handful is active), whereas the Reddit journaling community is 2 Million+ ;). So, there is a lot less content posted on Lemmy. Back on Reddit, I was mostly a commenter (barely posting anything new myself) but I quickly realized that if I wanted to see stuff I was interested in on Lemmy I better start... posting myself ;)

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      • [user banned for having an opinion that diverges from the group]

        Is this something I'm supposed to react to? If so, sorry I don't get it.

        • It's just a bad joke about 'the out of the box experience not being great'.

          • My bad. I should have understood. Even I, filtering out all the crap, have heard of that, well, that situation ;)

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