The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. - Burke.
Yes it's miserable, and I'm not sure if I'm doing anything at all, but turning away seems worse.
Implying Lemmy is the best/only place to get political news. :/
Some of us come here for fun and get our doom elsewhere.
Where do you get yours from?
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.
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.
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.
Guy on the right is smiling at a nuclear sunrise (he doesn't know)
I don't block it because I want to start up to date with the Nazi regime
Really? The collapse of a superpower isn't fascinating to you?
I enjoy watching slow motion train crashes as much as the next guy, but everyone needs a break sometimes, you know?
Have you tried closing the app? That's what I do when I've had enough.
That's a pretty blatant false dichotomy
Ignorance to current events isn’t joy.
No, but drowning in political events doesn't make for a positive experience either
I'm actually having a great time seeing my comrades on the streets
Please be patient with us while we struggle with trying to stop a burgeoning dictatorship.
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
The people in this thread acting like you need to be tuned in to everything all the time with no filter baffle me. You can block all politics on Lemmy and get your political news elsewhere. People are more than entitled to cultivate the spaces they inhabit and use.
And then there’s no content :(
Nah, there’s plenty of Linux and Star Trek
That's the best part
oh you must be somehow dodging the countless anime and furry communities that are alive and "well"
Idk who the fuck Moe is but this cartoon gal has quite an imaginative and loyal following
Aber es gibt so viel Inhalt!
In der Tat. Ü
Ignore it all you like, sadly it will affect you too
Plus word filter
There are word filters for Lemmy?
If you use boost I know there is
On Voyager, popular mobile client, there's this setting page (linking image because apparently there's no space left on my instance's storage):
I remember I said I did this once and the amount of people who came of the woodwork saying "yOuRE pARt of ThE ProBlEM!!1!" Was insane
Ignoring the world definitely makes you good global citizens and not problems to work around. Good job. Way to go.
I live here! If I chose to be willfully ignorant I’d be no better than all those on the right I’ve been talking about being willingly ignorant for decades
I’m no hypocrite
Regretfully this is my local news so sticking my head in the sand probably won't help.
You could also choose an instance like programming.dev that hides political communities by default
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
How would you even do this? It would take forever. Is there like a blocklist you can import?
Can we start a thread with like blocking words, but yes blocking makes Lemmy the best
Honestly all political discussions here are so cursed. Its just people yelling. Fuck that.
That might be because you actively go around yelling at people for not supporting Israel
