Basically my entire feed is like swiss cheese due to all the articles about Trump and Musk.
Does someone actually enjoy consuming this stuff all day every day? I can’t possibly imagine Lemmy ever becoming popular among the normies if this is what they’d need to deal with.
Sticking my head in the sand doesn’t help me stay current on what’s happening
I’d rather stay informed too but not at the expense of my mental wellbeing. It’s not political posts that’s the issue here - it’s the amount of them.
You’re the one forming an emotional response to every bad news article.
You can be informed and collected. But it does require some compartmentalization
It would take a real weirdo to enjoy news as it’s rarely good, by definition.
It’s about being informed. Can’t help you with your desire not to be.
It’s pretty disingenuous to suggest that my decision to block political posts on Lemmy comes from a desire to stay ignorant.
American politics absolutely dominate the fediverse, it’s crazy
It was the same when Israel invaded Palestine, nothing but Gaza news on the frontpage. Trump’s dismantling of the country is one of the shittiest things happening in the world right now, of course it will dominate the front page.
The unfortunate part is that he’s going to be dismantling the country for the next 4 years
I subscribe to non-news, non-politics, and non-tech communities only. My front page is great and I can browse “new” and “subscribed” for several hours a day. If I do run out, only then do I look at “all”.
Lꝏk at how many news domains I filtered in my lemmy client app (isn’t even all of them , the form just stopped expanding past certain point)
Sick ofv hearing about those two guys , don’t use social media to lꝏk at news links , the 1-2 news sites I actually do follow are basicly text-only with no images . But am not doing this out of politics avoidance , it’s for different reasons
Particularly infuriating are this and memes (which I also don’t care about) seem to make up like 80% total threadiverse content . Peops wonder wy peops stay on reddit lol
