• regdog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

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

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

    • mholiv@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      I do the same. I still get a ton of posts like this don’t include any relevant key words and still are about musk or trump. It’s impossible to escape.

      • Aneb@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Its absolutely impossible to be on Lemmy and avoid political post even with keyword filters because keywords don’t filter on meme content, usually.

  • chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

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

  • Juliee@lemm.eeBannedEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    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

  • Necroscope0@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    2 months 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

  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Not wanting to follow donald ducks disastrous adventures isn’t burying your head in the sand IMO.

    • chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Can’t just bury your head in the sand and say you don’t care about politics

      I can actually and science proves it’s better for mental health.

    • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
      49·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, it’s not easy to ignore when the US goverment starts sending people to concentration camps

      You had no problem ignoring it for decades previously.

      • Squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        I’m a little lost as to what exactly this rebuttal is implying. Do you feel that those who willfully ignored these issues went they weren’t as dire should continue to do so as they get worse? I’m having difficulty reading this charitably so clarification would be appreciated, thanks.

    • Crampon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      95·
      2 months ago

      Which are topics covered by 90% of the forums here already. If you browse for memes you should be allowed to see some. instead you get AOC Simps sharing some rally.

      Blocking users posting political campaigning on meme forums are now modus operandi.

      Try posting that shit on the woodworking forum and see how it flies. The meme forums are poorly moderated.

        • Crampon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

          A picture of a crowd with the headline AOC and Sanders gathered 35000 people this weekend is hardly a meme.

          Have you considered I might be European? And I might be somewhat interested in American politics, but I’m also interested in other shit to. If Lemmy wants to succeed it will have to cater to a wider audience than the most politically engaged core.

          Blocking a few users have cleansed my front page alot. I hake no issues with people discussing their political worries. Thats imoortant in any free State. What’s not important is forcing those discussions into any minor irrelevant topic.

        • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          51·
          2 months ago

          Have you considered… that political memes… should be posted to the communities specifically for political memes? I know, crazy, right?

          If someone wants to bury their head in the sand while everything burns, that’s their perogative.

          Personally, I get more than enough exposure to the ongoing situation through other sources. I don’t need my haha funnies to pull double duty, and I’d argue that they’re an incredibly poor format to convey useful information for staying properly informed.

          I definitely don’t need random internet asshole busybodies deciding they know my information needs better than I do.

          • Crampon@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            2 months ago

            They might not bury their head in the sand either. They might be engaged in the topics, but at the moment they just want to see what funny references exist in a non political sphere.

        • uienia@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Yeah, that “I don’t care about politics is what brought them there in the first place”, but they will never acknowledge that, instead they will just double down on their aggressive apatheism.

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      177·
      2 months ago

      Sounds like their problem, not mine. They voted for it, I wouldn’t expect you to care much about British internal politics either.

  • Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    58·
    2 months ago

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

  • undeffeined@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

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