Another Lemming (I just made that up, what's the correct term?) mentioned how they blocked all the news communities and how it improved their experience. Until then I'd just been blocking individual accounts. I took their advice and blocked news, but also politics, communities about certain countries, and anything else where the default seemed to be activism/rage/hopelessness related. I actually agreed with the sentiments or causes of a lot of the communities I blocked, but I found that those actually hit me the hardest as I would get invested in them. All this blocking has helped a lot. Lemmy is a lot less heavy now. There's more humor and animals and less horrors. It's not that I don't care abotu bad things happening in the world, it's that I start to care too much while being powerless to do anything about it, and then I was no good to anyone, not even myself.