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.
You could create an account that blocks off communities for news and technology, and any other communities that have a high likelihood of reporting on current events. Just switch to the account on days where you just don’t want to read such news, for any respectable reason you may have (it’s understandable, it can be draining).
This should be a no-brainer, but Lemmy doesn’t really filter stuff out by default, unless the admins decide so. So as long as you’ve created an account on a fairly managed instance, and given that the current news cycle, especially in the Western & English-speaking world, you won’t be able to escape Trump and Musk, especially when they’re dominating headlines due to how they are literally affecting the lives of millions, if not billions, of people.
I just think the nature of how Lemmy came about and who created it means that it’s mostly used by very serious people worried about the state of the world.
It’s one of the reasons I still use Reddit honestly. Lemmy is good for politics, FOSS, and Star Trek.
Wait what… Your feed is totally different from mine i guess
I’ve been using Lemmy less lately because it’s all Trump&Musk every time i open it.
PieFed, which federates with Lemmy so you can get all the same content, just added a new step to the onboarding process which sets up a Trump and Musk filter based on your preferences:
