Sure I'm pissed off too but Lemmy has to be more than everyone screaming at politics and billionaires. I need some balance of just topics that are not rage bait and propaganda. Are there no cat subs here?

!cat@lemmy.world of course.

The key is to make some sweeping community and instance blocks right off the bat. Then it's a tolerable platform.

#1 : Dull Men's Club

!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

Oh, and !bats@lemmy.world

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

Sounds like you've been looking at All:Hot.

Re-sort by New, scroll, subscribe to communities you like, and then look at Subscribed.

!funhole@lemmy.sdf.org

Check out the community list on slrpnk.net

You don't need an account there, you can sub those communities from your current account.

This is such a fantastic list, thank you for sharing! Subscribed to ten new communities just now

You need to start by subscribing to communities you like. Then blcok user you don't like.

awesome to hear! it's a very handy resource for sure :)

Also, please post other things! The reason the majority of the content is politics is because that's what's being posted.

more than everyone screaming at politics and billionaires

We also have Linux, LOTR and Star Trek.

You can join us over at !nolawns@slrpnk.net we could use more voices

There's a fox one too! I don't remember the instance though.

Edit: !foxes@lemmy.world

.world has all the animals. !dogs@lemmy.world too

It's new but if you enjoyed reddits BoRU there's !bestofinternetupdates@lemmy.world

You need to block the political subs. At least the ones constantly posting tabloids or reposting Twitter ragebait.

Even then… yeah. It’s a major problem for Lemmy/Piefed. There are cat subs, but niches feel buried these days.

*It’s the majority of what’s being upvoted.

There’s a lot of other content, but it tends to wither away instead of getting any engagement.

And owls! Don’t forget the owls!

!superbowl@lemmy.world

!AlbumArtworkHeaven@lemmy.world

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

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.

First post: I can't tell a fitted bed sheet from a flat one. Jeeeeeesus fucking Christ on toast.

And the very first post has AI in big letters.

isn't it the last post -at time of writing- ?? ;)

I'm not sure if you're trying to imply that pmjv is an AI evangelist. Maybe look at the content of you're not familiar.

!Artshare@lemmy.world

!Artmuseum@lemmy.world

!traditional_art@lemmy.world

!weird_art@lemmy.world

!Boardgames@sopuli.xyz

!cooking@lemmy.world

!wikipedia@lemmy.world

!NoseEars@lemy.lol

!osm@feddit.uk

!upliftingnews@lemmy.world

!vinyl@lemmy.world

!justpost@lemmy.world

Yes. I meant the top of the feed, first you see at the time. I subscribed anyway though.

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.

What'd you call me?