I’m temporarily taking a break from political activism, and it is tiring seeing everything right now. I have been politically active for 5 years now, and I desperately need a break. Voyager for Lemmy, at least for me, pushes political content like crazy.
Voyager for Lemmy, at least for me, pushes political content like crazy.
No content is being pushed to anyone, Lemmy’s algorithms are very simple. It’s just there’s a lot of it.
You can unsubscribe from or block the politics and news communities, especially worldnews, and it should get rid of a lot of it. I find the experience to be better when subscribing to the stuff you want rather than remove the stuff you don’t want.
Not sure if Voyager exposes such a setting (probably?), but on Tesseract I’d do something like this:
it does, for those who want to limit political posts on Voyager here’s how
settings -> filters & blocks -> add keyword
Add stuff like ‘MAGA, Trump, Elon’ etc.
If you still get political posts from political subs block the sub, if it’s not from a political sub see if you could add any new keywords from the title.
However this isn’t always going to work, there’s always going to be posts that done have anything political in the title but do in the image/post and come from a non-political sub but these steps will cut out most of them.
Lemmy isn’t pushing political content, Lemmy users tend to be very politically charged, thus the content reflects that.
It’s a natural consequence of the decay of Capitalism, it will polarize and affect more and more people as time goes on.
Make an account, subscribe intentionally, set your default view to “Subscribed” instead of “All” or “Instance”. Then your original account is still there if and when you’re ready to go back. Or just do this on your main account if you prefer.
There’s no algorithm pushing content on Lemmy, it’s how you choose to set your view and what you choose to subscribe to.
Lemmy is filled with political content. Voyager is probably just showing what is most popular if you are viewing all, which is going to show a lot of political content.
The best options is to curate a subscribed list or block political subs you don’t want to see.
I’m specifically using Voyager on iOS and MacOS (and in Windows via BlueStacks) because I do exactly this. I block several whole instances (lemmygrad and hexbear), the active politics communities, and also specific keywords (elon, musk, trump, gop, republican, etc.), so I’m even able to browse All without my eyeballs being seared.
