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How do I filter out political posts? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
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I am not someone who follows/has interest in Geo-politics. In lemmy homepage majority of posts are political. Those lemmy’s I do not expect to have political posts in them like c/technology, c/memes, c/lemmyshitposts, their top posts are related to politics. My subscribed, local, and all is full of it. Is there a way to filter them out?

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[–] 11 points 1 year ago* (11 children)

Human life, human endeavors, human ambitions, are all inherently political. Politics is literally humans disagreeing on something. Technology is politics. Lemmy itself, the Fediverse, the software it's built on, is inherently a political act of rebellion against corporate controll of discourse. Shitposting was literally invented through political discourse, for political purposes. That's what it's always been about.

Wanting to avoid politics is a political choice. It's Chooseing to be ignorant of the world shaping forces that effect your life and the lives of everyone else.

I've got no advice for you.
You do you. But whatever you may do, will be political. There's no way around that.

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  • [–] [S] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    It is not that deep bro

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Being on Lemmy, or an internet forum in general and trying to filter out politics is like going to a political rally and blocking your ears and looking away.

    Even Comedian is largely political, reaction youtubers, movies, tv shows, music, paintings, every piece of entertainment has always some political aspect to it. And Lemmy especially, for denying big tech and governments privacy intrusion on our day to day life. Most Lemmy users are moderate-far left leaning, 99% of the posts I see, I can identify some political viewpoints, so it would be very hard to "filter out politics."

    But if you really want to, just find the channels you want and block them, subscribe to mostly apolitical ones.

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  • [–] [S] -3 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    I can read news through news outlets online which I do from time to time. I just want my lemmy to have tech related posts only. Your comment made me chuckle.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You signed up on one of the most political instances there is. Switch instances and browse Local. Like the other person suggested, lemmy.zip or programming.dev are both good options.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    But tech IS political. Can you show me an example of non-political tech?

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    • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Everything is political.

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    With what's going on in the world? Delete your accounts and go off grid man. That's the only way now.

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    • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Ha good luck, Everything is politics

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You can use ublock origin filters. It's not perfect but definitely thins them out.

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    • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    As for Reddit, go away from the main subs

    unluckily niches are not yet developed enough but still better than nothing and you can help with posting

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