Sounds like you've been looking at All:Hot.
Re-sort by New, scroll, subscribe to communities you like, and then look at Subscribed.
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maybe take a gander through the list Blaze made of active communities which are not politics, news, memes or tech, there's definitely more than that around but it is a good starting point
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more than everyone screaming at politics and billionaires
We also have Linux, LOTR and Star Trek.
#1 : Dull Men's Club
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!cat@lemmy.world of course.
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Check out the community list on slrpnk.net
You don't need an account there, you can sub those communities from your current account.
!tenforward@lemmy.world for a great trek community
Edit: every week or two I go to /all and if I happen to see any communities that are interesting, I follow them
Also, please post other things! The reason the majority of the content is politics is because that's what's being posted.
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The key is to make some sweeping community and instance blocks right off the bat. Then it's a tolerable platform.
You need to start by subscribing to communities you like. Then blcok user you don't like.
Gotta filter the word "Trump". Believe me, it won't leave you in the dark. You'll still get US news just not headlines that are rage bait
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It's new but if you enjoyed reddits BoRU there's !bestofinternetupdates@lemmy.world
You can join us over at !nolawns@slrpnk.net we could use more voices
You need to block the political subs. At least the ones constantly posting tabloids or reposting Twitter ragebait.
Even thenβ¦ yeah. Itβs a major problem for Lemmy/Piefed. There are cat subs, but niches feel buried these days.
Lot's of non-political subs here, use the search feature and browse.
Start with !cat@lemmy.world
Made a post saying the same thing got slammed and downvoted and shit all over. Goodluck. I'm with you.
That's actually pretty fair. I thought the fediverse should foster nieche c/ it would keep people on lemmy longer because they enjoy popular memes as well as specialized interests.
I want to say AMA communities but I tainted that with rage bait and only a few posts a month. 196 communities can be fun they're chill 99% of the time, but they don't take criticism too well.
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