Browse c/all peacefully rule

Filtering out "Kirk" will have some Star-Trek collateral.

- How do you guys add gifs to comments? Is it an app thing?
otoh, you won't have to listen to can i borrow a feeling
- Loved the simpsons reference
oh no. anyway (kirk, not trek)

The voter apathy is how we got where we are.

And before you start talking about no progressives, the voter apathy is responsible for this too.

People just trust others do decisions for them so we got morons voting.

Contrary to popular opinion not everyone is from the States.
- Knowing what goes on in the rest of the world isn't bound to the requirement that you can change it there though, it just sometimes helps you deal with it at a local level better
- When the pants shitting monkeys running America start nuking the fuck out of the rest of the planet indiscriminately, you might wish you had cared more about what was going on with those stupid fucks.
- THANK YOU!
- Which country has actually used nukes again? Yeah ignore what's happening in America.
- You think only the United States cares what Russia's doing?
Man, every time someone goes "I want to keep my news separate from my social media feed" you folks jump at the chance to be self righteous.
If Lemmy (or any social media) is your main source of news, or the sole way you keep up with politics, that's a problem.
If you think that constant exposure to an inconsistent firehose of news even more effected by personal biases than normal is some sort of virtue, then you don't have much media literacy, or any awareness of the many studies that show just how much this shit has negative effects on worldview and emotional state. Before you start in on "but the world is shit", more than one of these studies specifically tracked differences between what people thought crime rates were vs what they actually were, based off news exposure. The result was that all the people in the study exposed to news media thought things were a significant order of magnitude worse than the real statistics.
It's not a sin to curate your own exposure to the news media apparatus, or to control your exposure so it happens on your own terms. It is literally all designed to provoke strong emotional reactions in order to increase page views and therefore ad impressions.
Avoiding news entirely is a problem too, but this constant attacking of anyone who dares to publicly talk about curating their news media diet, and especially trying to lay the blame for current mess in the USA on them, is some bullshit of the highest fucking degree.
- Good post
Not wanting a firehose of shit being thrown at you every time you go online = voter apathy?
Like, fuck dude. The world sucks. When I'm not busy voting 99.999999999% of the year I just want to look at funny pictures of cats.
This isn't voter apathy. It's actually overwhelming how much of c/all is this shit. The same 15 posts of the day repeated multiple times in different communities. It's mostly sensationalized editorials too and some of the more important news stories are completely missed. Even with these filters there's a ton of memes referencing these things, so you'll still have a sense of what's going on anyway.
Awesome so let's just do that then?

except for ppl who still post twitter screenshots with no alt text so the muted words dont get picked up thats the worst T_T

or people who "censor" those words by putting random asterisks and other symbols in them. More work than doing nothing and circumvents filters.

My honest thoughts when people bring up this take

Yea I'd love to do this but then I'm just unaware of how shit the world is. Ignoring it doesn't make it go away, and it will still effect me all the same. I'd rather see the waterfall coming than get caught by surprise

I just have "Trump", "Elon", and "Musk".

Filters out like 80% of these.

i got a bunch of filters but then so.eone comes up with a new name for a filtered person and they still get through. or, theyre in the thumbnail but not in the title. i keep adding to it though. it'll never be perfect, but every word i add to the list adds to my wellbeing.
- Probably worth to block that person then. Look for pointers of troll accounts.
  New, a few weeks or less, for example.
  Suddenly changed tone of comments (may have been hacked)
  Writes emotionally fueled posts/comments, especially ragebait; the posts support persecution or question vulnerable groups needing support, and so on.
  Upvotes ragebait.
  Check for specific terms or phrases that seem copypasted.
  Check their mod log

I think my "politics" filter list on Mastodon is at 250 words by now, with additional lists for "AI Slop", "Corposcum" and "Mental Wellbeing".

Might seem too much, but I'll definitely never get out of depression if I constantly see stuff going to shit. If something really bad is going on I see that through memes anyway.

Do you even get anything on your feed nowadays ? Lol

That's a good idea; I might actually copy you

Great tip, thank you.

I also have democrat on my list, but I'm just generally pretty dang tired of the english-speaking internet being dominated by US politics. We get it, it's a hellscape. The rest of us can't really help though ¯(ツ)/¯

One of the reasons I switched to Piefed was having a built in filter list. I still keep up to date with the news somewhat but I don't need to know hour to hour updates on every issue. Also the news is so USA centric, when you don't live there it's not very useful.

Use Piefed, make a List, share it.

Add block for all of lemmy.ml too. That place is literally regressing

At least there's no GallowBoob on lemmy yet

What about "Texas"?

is this some advanced shit I'm too lemmy.world to use?

I just have block instances, communities and users

same