And then you look for a community devoted to your hobbies and the most recent post is from a year ago.
this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2025
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I would post more but I got this computer yesterday and have not transferred my old meme folder yet. Ah well
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Use an app that allows blocking posts by keyword, like Voyager.
This is my list of keywords that keeps me sane while browsing lemmy:
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.
Its absolutely impossible to be on Lemmy and avoid political post even with keyword filters because keywords don't filter on meme content, usually.
I'm on Voyager and had no idea it did this! Thanks for sharing.
"Is he team Red or team Green?"
*Little did they know that beneath his outer attire lay his blue wizard robes.*
"I mean he's wearing boots, which is more than either of us have."
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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
Helps a little bit.
A disturbance in the Fediverse. As if a million posts and comments cried out and were silenced.
They fixed that bug so now if someone cross posts your content and gets banned, it won't delete your images
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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
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It would be nice if we had elected the boring president yeah.
We outside of the US didn't even have any say in the elections and are subjected to your constant, and I mean constant political shit.
It's all so tiring
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It would have been nice if 45% of the eligible voting population didn't already check out last year. It would have been nice if there weren't countless posts by bots on reddit saying "I really hate all this politics" in a concerted, ongoing effort to make people like OP tune out and not care.
I mean, I get that it's hard sometimes to always see what's happening in the world, but you have the option to turn it all off. But expecting to just get the content that appeals to your mood at the moment and lets you avoid responsibility, that's fucking childish.
When you're a child you can avoid the world. You're supposed to be protected from the world. You grow up and BAM now you're part of shit. No, you don't get out of it. No, you don't get to escape whenever you want. Sorry, we didn't sign up for it either but we know what we have to do so we're concerned about events and trying to communicate that concern so that evil doesn't flourish. (Much further.)
It's really easy to blame non-voters when you have the privilege of civic literacy, do not face voter disenfranchisement, do not live paycheck to paycheck, do not have a job that will fire you for 'other reasons' when you take off to vote, do not have an abusive spouse that will watch you fill in your mail in ballot if you vote, do not have to walk an hour away to the voting poll because you can't drive, do not have a permanent address for a mail in ballot, so on and so forth.
Yes, there are lazy 'I'm not political' morons who are willfully ignorant and don't vote. But let's not pretend that everything about American infrastructure including car dependency, anti-homelessness laws, understaffed voting polls, centralized media and fake news, aren't all designed to make voting harder than it should be and disproportionately target minorities.
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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.
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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?) "
While true, not all Lemmy is american.
Yep, that's on me. I'm just used to talk to americans when I'm met with a "I don't care about politics"
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Sounds like their problem, not mine. They voted for it, I wouldn't expect you to care much about British internal politics either.
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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.
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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??
Starting to think of unsubing from technology, too often it's about trump and musk. But it's also one of the largest communities.
Problem when most active communities at least sometimes include US political bullshit is that few are left without it if you just want to block it. We are not all Americans, it isn't helpful to constantly have US bullshit showing up. Hopefully as lemmy grows the smaller communities will grow and I can have a feed full of kayaking, Linux memes and homebrewing.
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When things are on fire you tend to see a bunch of smoke. Just sayin…
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You might not be political, but the Nazis are, and they don't really mind sending non-political people to the camps.
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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.
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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!?"
Just set up some filters and you will more peace. Some will still get through but it will not feel like a deluge.
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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.
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I mean, it's a BIG FUCKING PROBLEM
You gotta block the bots that post news stories to communities named after the publication.
Really clears up the feed.
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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.
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What bugs me about it is that it’s usually not even news, just outrage bait.
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Filter them out. I did it myself. It helps.
Come to my sub.
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