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I avoid news and political communities so I don't really know that the crowd is about over there. People on !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works and !gardening@lemmy.world are usually nice
Yeah if you avoid political subs and political topics in general Lemmy is great. But if you sort by Lemmy's version of "r/all" it's almost all political stuff and the comments are all primally unidirectional.
Trying to sanitize /all through the means of blocking half of Lemmy is way too much effort, and still won't produce a good experience I think. I personally prune and maintain an extensive subscribed list instead and almost exclusively browse /subscribed. That still lets me access /all (or /local) whenever I feel like it without having half the content blocked, but can still avoid news and politics in my day to day browsing.
Yeah it's unfortunate it takes this much work to filter out the majority of the extremism, but I'm thinking it might be worth it. It took about 6 months to block the worst users on nextdoor but it made my feed infinitely more useful and pleasant, I am guessing the same thing here, time will tell.