No Stupid Questions

"Reality has a well known liberal bias."

Hide the communities that talk about equality to make your own "safe space"!

There's three feeds: 'Subscribed', 'Local' and 'All'.

• Subscribed is subs you've specifically subscribed to.
• Local is subs hosted on the instance you're using.
• All is every damn thing.

You can manually block subs from All, one at a time.

You can manually add subs to Subcribed, one at a time.

Or you can try to find an instance that mostly hosts the kind of thing you want to see, and rely on its 'local' feed as your filter.

Because that's what makes the fediverse different: anyone can make a lemmy server, and they can run it however they want. You want a lemmy for flat earthers, antivaxers, preppers, or young-earth creationists, you can go build one and hook it up to all the others. You can set whatever moderation and content policies you want on the thing, and that's absolutely fine.

However, other lemmy servers aren't obliged to communicate with your one. If they don't like your server, they can 'defederate' from it, and refuse to import your content.

It's a group chat for group-chats; you get separate cliques forming.

For instance, beehaw defederated from a huge chunk of lemmy servers when the reddit shitfire started; they wanted to keep their own vibe, and not have their communities overrun with a giant flood of bots and trolls and maga types. They're lefty as fuck over there, and they want to keep it that way.

And just recently, lemmy.world (and a bunch of others) defederated from exploding-heads, which was pretty much nothing but trolls and magas and racist fucks.

So it's possible that you can find a single server with a 'moderate centrism' spin and policy to suit, where you'll only see centrist-friendly subs hosted locally - and that may defederate other servers that are just too lefty for its users. Browse the other communities out there, read their policies, scroll through their local subs. If you find somewhere that works for you, bingo.

But honestly, you may not have a lot of luck. Lemmy started out with a bunch of green-lefty-progressive types, and that still defines a lot of its culture. Lemmy.ml is home to many of the largest communities out there, and though it may not be lefty as fuck, it's still lefty as heck. The lack of a top-down power structure tends to piss off the right wing, if nothing else. You may find a home for your views, but you're likely to discover that it has like 3 people on it, so... wooo yeah, party.

If even lemmy.world is too lefty for you, I suspect this may not be your ideal platform.

Just subscribe to subs you want a use that.

As an aside, both the Democratic and Republican parties are right of center liberalism (as in there should be a free market with some degree of regulation to protect the public i.e the FDA). Centrism between those is just being slightly less conservative than your average Republican.

True centrism is halfway between fascism and communism.

ridiculously biased to the lib side and I’m as centrist/moderate

but … but … liberal IS centrist

are you somehow confusing liberal with left because they both start with ‘L’? I can assure you the left hates liberals even more than you apparently do …

You just have to block them all individually. I’m very far left but find news/politics too stressful, and I just want to use lemmy for memes and fun shit, so I’ve been blocking them all. I browse all new and join/block communities as I see them pop up.

Depending on your views you may want another instance.

You can subscribe to Fox News and unsubscribe to everything else if you want.

So a few options (I'm on kbin but similar):

• move to an instance where the users aren't signed up to those communities (remember All is not the whole fediverse, All is just the content that is local to that instance plus that users on your instance have subbed to. On a big instance you will see a lot in all)
• block individual communities or entire instances. I have been blocking the numerous meme communities for example which tidies up my All feed, but it is tedious as there are so many
• browse Lemmy or Kbin using Subbed instead of All or Local views. On kbin you can do that by going to /sub, clicking the link on the toolbar or setting it as your default view.
• create your own personal instance of lemmy or kbin and only sign up for content you want on that aerver. You can browse new communities to join via other instances then add it to your instance.

I was blocked from posting anything on c/world, because I offered dissenting opinion. Now I block them instead