General Discussion

Lately?

It's all the fucking time, and it's fucking tiresome.

And I'm American.

I live in Los Angeles county. Right now it's kinda all I can think about.... But I understand our political crisis can totally harsh your vibes or whatever.

The more people vocally speak up against Nazis--the easiest stance in the world to take--the sooner it goes away.

Talking sense online does help. It doesn't forcibly stop them instantly, but it absolutely helps, so everybody do it. No point is too obvious. "It's good when governments help their citizens and bad when they attack them."

"Everybody who assaults their fellow countrymen because some limp traitor told them to is a bitch."

I tend to block every community with American news and it’s what I spend 90% of my time doing on here.

I think between Elon Musk departing Washington and the alarming fascist escalation in Los Angeles, it's kind of to be expected.

But note that (at least on my instance, lemmy.world) you can click the post's drop-down menu and hide posts you don't want to see again, so that helps somewhat.

I guess my question is "Since when?"

Yes there was an annoying influx of election politics last year. Then there was another since January, Trump getting into power and saying dumb (but apparently newsworthy) shit almost every single day without fail.

So yes, a lot more crazy stuff is happening than before, and it certainly isn't healthy. However, I don't consider it the fault of people posting/cross-posting on Lemmy, I blame the chaos-stirring narcissistic arsonist who leads what formerly was the leader of the free world.

Yes, you should filter it to a level that you can tolerate in a good mental state. Each person is different. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed, but be aware enough to hold onto the thread of knowing what you can or cannot do about it.

This is what I sometimes feel as someone who isn't from the USA, a bit alienated from the discourse online. Our politics is more boring so it can be hard to understand the cultural wars unless you are a huge USA-phile who follows the world news extremely closely.

Edit: Like right-wing people here mainly have a reputation for being wankers as opposed to "nazis" or anything else dangerous. Makes it hard to understand the apocalyptic rhetoric sometimes but we'd probably behave the same if we thought our democracy was in danger.

After reading through this thread, I want to mention that I'm feeling the same way as you and with the amount of politics and uncomfortable discussions I'm seeing, I find that I prefer to go find discussions that are more relaxing instead. This also kind of also reminds me of the ideas of a community which I'm not able to think of what to call it, or I would probably have created it already. Someone did give me an explanation in DM that I think fits it, but still not sure what to call it.

I have been finding myself uncomfortable with a lot of things posted in politics, News, Global News, and some in Not The Onion, Memes. I'm also finding myself not wanting to look inside the technology community because I'm not interested in the latest and the greatest shit since it feels like we are heading for a disaster. Right now, I'm just thinking of ideas on what can be done to make it better, block a lot of the negative stuff out, and focus on getting back into a more peaceful wilderness-like area.

I’ve started blocking communities more frequently as a result. I just need a curated summary of the most impactful actions at an international scale every couple weeks, not a daily feed of rage bait created by morons.

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Well, that's to be expected.

Yeah there’s been an influx lately of it it is getting a little annoying. A lot of times it seems to be a single user that will post the same thing across so many things so I’ll just block them. I block the users that are just news organizations as well

Please accept our apologies, our country is trying to die though. It's kind of all we can think about.

Piefed has a content filter to remove it. Signing up for piefed.social, one of the first questions it asks is "How tired are you of the Trump/Musk spam?". I just checked my filters, and the only 2 words are "trump" and "musk", and I have not seen a single lick of US politics in any of my browsing over the last week or so since joining. (EDIT: Lemmy doesn't have content filters, I was looking at the wrong info, sorry!)

I get my news elsewhere and I'm part of local political action groups. One of the reasons I left Reddit a couple weeks back was to get away from the constant dooming. Even after meticulously curating my communities, it was hard to get away from. There's a time and place for worrying about news and politics, but anywhere and everywhere 24/7 isn't it.

I can see how it could be a problem if you WANT to see a little bit of it, though.

I understand the cross-posting issue, it's something that comes with a federated discussion format and I don't think anyone has come up with a great way to solve it without such a distributed effort. It's ironic that before when there were so few instances (before and during the first Reddit migration) there was a concern that without cross-posting a lot there wouldn't be enough growth and some communities might die out if they happened to be on a single failing instance. I'd rather have too much activity than none at all, at least you can filter or block the worse ones.

I usually stick to the Subscribed feed, and then the Piefed personal feeds.

It's mostly places like !casualconversation@piefed.social, !cooking@lemmy.world, !gardening@lemmy.world, !lego@piefed.social

I rarely browse All, as I rely on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca to discover new communities.

I treat this place just like real life. The feed is not tailored to me, so I block lots of stuff. Rude people, people that down vote, narcissists, communities with bad vibes, if I interact with moderators after interacting in good faith, or if I post something I know to be factually correct but get some negative cascade in response I simply block the whole community or individual. I've blocked 200+ users and at least as many communities. I only care about real people that have the decency to interact cordially.