It's all political memes now

Use an app that allows blocking posts by keyword, like Voyager.

This is my list of keywords that keeps my sane while browsing lemmy:

And then you look for a community devoted to your hobbies and the most recent post is from a year ago.

I got ya

I would post more but I got this computer yesterday and have not transferred my old meme folder yet. Ah well

Come to my sub.

Helps a little bit.

I like to be informed, however I wouldn’t call whatever happens on lemmy as information sharing but more like endless ranting. I get it it is what it is but I think it is healthier to have more than one topic

On the plus side my internet usage went down because I just do news check up daily and I lose desire to use internet further

Sometimes it yearn for the days the Harlem shake was a meme, and the Numa Numa guy, and badgers badgers badgers...

And if you really want to go even farther back to the 90s and super early 2000s internet (i am talking about pre 9/11) you had Where Are The Toons Now? And peanut butter jelly time and the Mr. T vs. (Insert random opponent here). Does anyone remember when Mr. T was an internet meme? Or even Bert is evil (a 90s meme literally stopped by 9/11).

While fun stuff obviously still exists aplenty (i actually like the skibidi stuff) I just wish we could do that again. But Trump is fucking everything up so much that I can simply cannot look away. It is everywhere.

you might not be american but you sure do live on planet earth

Why are there so many people assuming every lemmy user is from the USA

Sometimes its bad for mental health to continuously see all the bad things that are happening in the richest country in the world

Yeah, it's not easy to ignore when the US goverment starts sending people to concentration camps and being anti-american.

Can't just bury your head in the sand and say you don't care about politics, because then changes will come as a surprise

" why did I get laid off without severance? oh, they rolled back labor laws.

At least I have welfare as I search for a job... oh, they took that too.

Well, next elections I'll be voting against them. Wdym Trump is on his third term and planning a fourth one?

Why are ICE officers taking me to a plane, without due process, claiming I'm being anti-patriotic?) "

Always have been

I might occasionally be accused of being political, but yes. Lemmy is no escape. Many users from any instance will jam their politics into anything and everything, constantly. It's genuinely weathering.

You want to vibe and chill? HOW DARE YOU! DONT YOU KNOW X IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!?!?!?!?

WHY ARENT YOU MAD ABOUT X??? ARE YOU A MONSTER??

Just set up some filters and you will more peace. Some will still get through but it will not feel like a deluge.

I mean, it's a BIG FUCKING PROBLEM

please filter out politics. we don't want you whiney pacifists whining about not seeing enough linux memes.

Me: Just wanting to chill and not care about politics

My Backstory: Nearly "terminated" by the CCP because of the One Child Policy. My parent's defying the CCP is inherently political. My entire existence is literal the definition of being political.

Fenslerfilms GI Joe PSA's ftw. "Pork chop sandwiches!!!"

Block .world and the feed is massively better

It would be nice if we had elected the boring president yeah.

At some point, pretty much everything becomes political. I like to cycle, walk and enjoy nature. Me not wanting to get killed by a car driver is political, and me thinking we shouldn't dump toxic crap in the environment is political. The new stop sign at the corner of the street is political. Housing is political. The high price of goods is political.

It's understandable to want to escape, avoid all this crap and take a break for a while. But memes are also a way to vent and express the frustration about the current political climate.

Unfortunately those two are narcissist shit stains that enjoy having people talking about them every day so they are nearly impossible to avoid for a while.

I like to go touch some grass. Close social media and go take a walk or cycle. Think about how all the fucking money is... eeerh... touch some grass... go camping and hiking, admire the views that are about to get destroyed by capit... eeehm, that makes you feel small. Hear the beautiful sounds of nature accompanied by the dirt bikes illegally riding in the forest. All free of politics! Even when they'll invade and annex my country, I'll just be like "can't we all just stop talking about politics and share memes, please!?"

You might not be political, but the Nazis are, and they don't really mind sending non-political people to the camps.

2023 lemmy please come back... More linux posts...

Filter them out. I did it myself. It helps.

When things are on fire you tend to see a bunch of smoke. Just sayin…

Is it really political any more when evil people have used politics to gain control over our lives to wreck our retirement funds, deport and possibly murder our friends, and oh just for fun destroy the entire foundational structure of science and discovery?

Nope. That's not political. That's awareness of the environment in which we find ourselves, and an attempt to deal with it.

Hopefully it will be over soon (in part thanks to awareness campaigns) so we can go back to politics where we have some conservatives, some progressives or whatever, and some single-issue parities that can make common cause with the others from time-to-time. Politics would be so wonderful to have now. It's only been gone for maybe a decade and I miss it so much.

I have a filter on Elon and Trump

It was too much

This is a excellent use of Lemmys filter keywords feature. I also use it for crappy words used in news titles like slams, rails, blasts, etc

What bugs me about it is that it’s usually not even news, just outrage bait.

I am leaning harder and harder on 'political comedy isn't comedy' as a rule. 'It's just a joke,' is a far too common smokescreen for people pushing terrible ideas and mocking people spreading bad ideas doesn't do anything to stop them. It can even help. Politics isn't supposed to be entertaining. It's the decisions that affect how we live our lives. We need comedy in politics like we need strippers in surgery.

It's amazing how much still gets through, but at least I'm not scrolling past a dozen "news" stories between every meme or comic post.

You gotta block the bots that post news stories to communities named after the publication.

Really clears up the feed.

I filter out all of those words from my feed. I still see a lot of political stuff but it's balanced out with a bunch of meme communities and such.

When people talk about people being jerks on lemmy I miss out on most of that. I'm here for fun.

This is the exact reason why c/memes on lemmy.world has a "no politics" rule.

I blame the reddit exodus

I don't block much stuff, but I only subscribe to things that don't generally feature US politics. So I essentially have two feeds: All and Subscribed. Scrolling All can be exhausting...

Weird! It's almost like the country that a significant portion of the world rely on for protection turning into a literal fascist dictatorship is somehow significant. Who'd have thought

Every day

lemmy can now filter out entire political comms.

and most apps can filter out keywords. do at least "trump" and "musk" and you are good.

as a not-usian i keep it for the entertainment value of the crumbling empire though.

I browse by "Subscribed" and subscribe to communities that aren't politically focused. Here's a list:

FYI you can change to scaled or any other settings to get less political.

Not what I'm seeing, maybe I curated my feed differently? Idk maybe my server also blocks some?