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?
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