Nah, there’s plenty of Linux and Star Trek

Aber es gibt so viel Inhalt!

I don't think it's right to assume that people who block political online content are doing nothing. Hell, I think it's more likely that people who consume a lot of political content feel that they're doing something when they aren't.

Implying Lemmy is the best/only place to get political news. :/

Some of us come here for fun and get our doom elsewhere.

I tried. Prior to the election i was doing everything possible to change peoples minds. To get people together and ready for what needed to be done. Back then I was "overreacting"

Now that trump is in office we no longer have a winning strategy. People suddenly want to pretend like they care when it's all virtue signalling. Just like climate change, now that its too late to do anything, its ok to acknowledge that it exists.

Doomscrolling can decrease the motivation to act, contribute to anxiety and analysis paralysis.

Banning communities can be helpful to avoid those that fuel doomscrolling rather than action.

This. So many left-leaning folks that I've talked to basically have this attitude, and present it to me like they are winning at life.

I also want to view more than 20 different posts a day...

I enjoy watching slow motion train crashes as much as the next guy, but everyone needs a break sometimes, you know?

For people outside the US, it has been a brutal dictatorship for a long time. The people whos countries you destroy certainly don't get a vote

I didn't even realise my instance did this (I didn't do research)

But if this is it minimised, I don't want to see the full amount

No, but drowning in political events doesn't make for a positive experience either

I mean @Sunshine does post a lot but I wouldn't say she makes up the rest of the world.

If you look at my comment history, you'll see how, on the boost app at least, to mute keywords and phrases, as well as a list that I use.

To save a click through my history: settings > filters and block > filter words

In the defence of some of us, like myself for instance, I live in a country where we can do literally jack shit to affect American political bullcrap, because it's nowhere near America. I'm pretty sure Europeans are excused from having to stay up to date every moment, unless we can force the rest of the world to be continuously in the loop about... idk, whatever crap Geert Wilders is up to right now...

That might be because you actively go around yelling at people for not supporting Israel