Anything is better when all you engage with is mindless entertainment
Came to say this. Yeah. Echo chambers feel good, but they are trash-tier entertainment, like drugs.
No, Lemmy is better when you block all gaming, Linux, and anime
Absolutely, thank God I don’t live in America cause the politics seem crazy over there.
As an American, I agree. The common joke is that we’re living on the worst time line (a Community reference).
Well this is not an exclusive American thing.
It’s the world’s most powerful military and largest economy, unfortunately for the rest of the world, we’re fucking nuts too.
Hey, don’t sell us short! We also tend to be ignorant and uneducated.
First past the post inevitably converges to a 2 party system, with all the frustrations that brings.
You see it as well in UK, Hungary, Turkey, …
Be carefull whenever someone suggests: the prime minister/president/… should come from the biggest party. It can take a few election cycles, but it ends up with a 2 party system, as that’s the dominant strategy.
Filtering out words in posts has worked well for me. I can still get news/politics in small doses without 90% of the noise
For me, there’s so many undesired communities and political communities that it’s easier to just pick the communities that I like subscribe to them instead of blocking everything else. There’s too much to block
That’s what I was thinking… that’s literally what subscribe is for…
i kinda like the fire hose
I do check the all feed for stuff i like from time to time
Idk about all, but hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml are both unpleasant. I’m glad lemm.ee leaves it up to the user rather than censoring it from the instance level though
Even if you want that stuff, you get a much better perspective in World News and News communities.
Politics and PoliticalMemes is just a bunch of redditors who aren’t used to being in a non echo chamber social media platform.
That generally holds true for life as well.
An allow list is easier than a block list
Cut off one head, two more grow in it’s place
I block the antisemites, it narrows things down quite a bit
