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.

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    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.

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    I’ve been using Lemmy less lately because it’s all Trump&Musk every time i open it.

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    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:

    trump and musk filter

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    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.

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      […] 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.

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      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.

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        anger inducing political articles all day every day

        Ah yes, those two whole posts out of four about politics in your screenshot really fill up the day 🙄

        You literally have the “solution” in hand, yet still insist on whining about being “forced” to confront the reality around you. Just live with having it blocked instead of trying to force everyone else to stop sharing important news and information.

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        For most people, this likely has far greater effect on their mental wellbeing than what these guys are doing policywise

        Nazi detected

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        “Recreational”. What a heartless dismissal of the swaths of new people being impacted and harmed every day by each new move by these fucks. Just stick to your subscribe feed if their suffering is such an irritant to you and leave the rest of the site to do what it will, yeah?

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        There are people around me enraged/supportive of it. I want to be able to be a voice of reason, and I can’t do it if I don’t know. I don’t want to be just “generically” informed.

        In general I agree it’s pretty shitty that it’s so much, but I care about people, and people care about this shit.

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    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
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      Replace Donald with RFK and you have my list. It’s greatly enhanced QOL. I still get to hear all about those guys from everywhere else, so I’m not “missing out” on anything just making my Lemmy feed much better.

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        That’s my experience as well. In order to get a healthy, moderate amount of news you have to actively avoid them. I even tried avoiding weather forecasts at one point but people kept telling me.

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      That is what does most of the heavy lifting for me too. Nearly all political discussion here is, in fact, discussion about either Trump or Musk. I’d be willing to bet that at any moment, atleast third of the posts on anyone’s front page includes either of those names.

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    I dont understand, whats the infuriating part? How it would look without the filter? Is the image supposed to be an inspiration for filtering politics?

    Edit: Ah I see, the horizontal lines represent filtered posts and there are a lot. To be fair, c/news has a looot of posts, sometimes I scroll past 10-15 in a row. Some are more relevant than others. Also, to answer your (kinda rhetoric) question, Lemmy is my main news source so I want to see the politics stuff.

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      The horizontal lines would just make me proud my filter works so well. My client doesn’t have them, so I have no idea how much gets filtered.

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    I appreciate the memes on Lemmy. Seems to be automated and they have low engagement, but it’s kind of awesome to to scroll, lol at cat, and get some news.

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    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.

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      It’s pretty disingenuous to suggest that my decision to block political posts on Lemmy comes from a desire to stay ignorant.

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        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.

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      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

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    Wait. So you’re saying that it’s infuriating to see politics in your feed after you turned off the filter to prevent seeing politics in your feed? 🤔

    Edit: You know what, that’s my bad. I misread your post originally. My sincerest apologies for the confusion.

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    I specifically don’t subscribe to many political/ news communities so that I can enjoy my time here. When I really want to know, I’ll just go to all instead of subs