I know you've probably heard this already, but it really makes a difference:

Curate your feed. My subscribed-feed is all I look at, I have an insanely long community subscription list but it feels truly active and basically no politics (thanks to voyager app's keyword filter and lemmy's community blocking feature).

Also a cool tip: look at profile of users to find interesting / cool communities.

Or, spend your time with us over at !sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz :)