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.
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:
I don’t think it’s about enjoying the content. I don’t filter it because I like having a firm grasp on what is happening politically in the world. As annoying, frustrating, and anxiety inducing as it is, Trump and Musk are two figures that are currently doing everything they can to fuck up our planet and governments so that they can make a few bucks. Yes there is a lot of musk and Trump content, but sticking your head in the sand and hoping it doesn’t effect you until it’s over is probably not the best way to handle it. I haven’t been on Reddit in years, but I recall it being the same situation there during Trump’s first term, there was just a little more non-political content to help dilute it due to the larger user-base.
[…] there was just a little more non-political content to help dilute it due to the larger user-base.
There was/is a lot more and that’s one of the various reasons the different Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed sites haven’t swayed people over yet. There’s far more people around here replying to posts like this and news posts, as well as creating news/politics/“dry” posts or find-anywhere-fare like memes/shitposts than much else.
It’s why recently I’ve tried posting more than media news links to a few of the different entertainment communities. Around here you really have to post/comment on what you want to see more than on the big corporate sites.
sticking your head in the sand and hoping it doesn’t effect you until it’s over is probably not the best way to handle it.
Consuming anger inducing political articles all day every day is probably not the best way to handle it either. For most people, this likely has far greater effect on their mental wellbeing than what these guys are doing policywise. On Reddit, there atleast was a slim chance that you could make an convincing enough argument that someone would drop their support for them but good luck finding such person on Lemmy. We’re preaching to the choir here.
For most people, this likely has far greater effect on their mental wellbeing than what these guys are doing policywise
Nazi detected
I have these four keywords filtered and it mostly works for me without having to block politics or other whole topics completely
- Donald
- trump
- Elon
- musk
My feed looks a lot different. And I’ve been blocking posts with these keywords for some time now, plus I’ve unsubscribed from world news and politics communities… But I have a lot of meme pictures in my feed, tech related stuff, casual talk and general questions, comics, animal pictures, computer hobby stuff, movies and TV… Maybe you’re subscribed to the wrong communities?
Honestly the last time Trump was president I think it was similar on reddit and in the media in general. It’s just that news about the stupid stuff he does seem to generate a lot of engagement and that’s what platforms and news organisations are looking for.
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
Compartmentalisation… like, say, filtering?
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.
All you have told us is that you don’t want to see political news. Not sure what other conclusion I could be expected to draw.
I like to be informed about the stupid shit happening, so yes, I enjoy it. It’s basically 5 minutes each day where I look at /all, the rest is subscribed stuff which doesn’t have politics.
I’d like to be informed too but at this point it’s essentially a choice between being firehosed by american politics or blocking all of it. I wouldn’t mind if it was just the occasional article when something actually newsworthy happens. Now it’s for a large part just recreational outrage.
