Belgian here, let’s be honest, Belgium is an edge case, being with Switzerland the few multilingual countries in Western Europe with large proportion of the population speaking one language and the other (different from the South Tyrol situation below).

Germans, French, Dutch, Italians and Spanish living next to a borders would definitely encounter the situation described in the OP.

Oh, you don’ t need to! You can just go to https://fedia.io/m/showsandmovies@lemm.ee and browse it from there!

Feel free to crosspost to !showsandmovies@lemm.ee

In the same vibe, there is !casualconversation@lemm.ee

If you are looking for 20 non-political communities, here’s a list: https://lemmy.world/post/23952547

all of the major instances are just a vehicle to throw propaganda at you.

How are lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, feddit.org or lemmy.ca propaganda machines?

https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/ filtered by monthly active users

if you allow the UI to guide you then it will give the wrong answer

How so? Adding “!test” shows the dropdown menu, that seems quite intuitive :

How would you make it more intuitive?

For Sublinks, if people go on the Github (which you expect people wanting to contribute to do), they’ll see it still has active contributions: https://github.com/sublinks

every single one has expressed extreme distaste with the extremist propaganda that is allowed to be expressed here. every. single. one. I try to explain that you can block it all but…

Are they using Reddit too? Because without blocking anything, the amount of political posts you see on Reddit is on par with here

!lotrmemes@midwest.social will work fine, but there are zero indicators for that in the GUI, you have to know the secret knowledge and trust the process, or flip back and forth between the Preview button and editing).

If you see it a few times, are you not going to notice intuitively how it works? Also, even if you don’t use a ! link, usually people with comment with one

But the codebase for Lemmy is in Rust so… not a whole lot of contributors to fix such things.

Piefed is in Python, Mbin in PHP, Sublinks in Java. It’s more about the lack of contributors than the languages themselves

you still custimise your feed to large extent by following stuff.

I’m not that familiar with the latest versions of the three I listed, but I’ve seen quite a few complaints on Reddit recently who seems to be pushing irrelevant content just for rage bait.

Also the things you mentioned about tracking are there on Twitter too:

Twitter’s privacy policy states they use the information collected to: “improve and personalise our products and services so that you have a better experience on Twitter, including by showing you more relevant content and ads, suggesting people and topics to follow, enabling and helping you discover affiliates, third-party apps, and services.”

It’s important to note that opting out of Twitter’s interest-based ads doesn’t necessarily mean you won’t see targeted advertising. For example, you may still see ads which are based on information such as what you Tweet, who you follow and the links you click on Twitter.

Often while browsing, if Twitter recognises that you’re interacting with something repeatedly, they will offer for you to follow that particular topic – which can be anything from celebrities to sports teams.

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/tech/what-does-twitter-know-about-you-and-your-data-how-to-see-everything-twitter-thinks-about-you-4125827

except the short form video type one, as you rely entirely on an algorithm.

Facebook, Twitter, even Reddit nowadays promote a certain type of content (reaction inducing), so unfortunately it’s not only shorts

To be fair, alt-right content is present in all types of medias: short videos, but also tweets, articles, long videos, essays, etc.

The fake Facebook groups created by Russia to antagonize two local groups did not need shorts videos to succeed: https://www.npr.org/2017/11/01/561427876/how-russia-used-facebook-to-organize-two-sets-of-protesters

If you look at Twitter nowadays, the “For you” is going to be more or less what you listed above

Reported

Hello,

What is the link to the community again?

• !imadethis@lemm.ee
• !chat@literature.cafe
• !books@lemmy.world

I see, thanks

pro-Zionistl)

Would you have examples? Genuinely curious

Thanks, crossposted to !yurop@lemm.ee