I am not someone who follows/has interest in Geo-politics. In lemmy homepage majority of posts are political. Those lemmy’s I do not expect to have political posts in them like c/technology, c/memes, c/lemmyshitposts, their top posts are related to politics. My subscribed, local, and all is full of it. Is there a way to filter them out?
With what’s going on in the world? Delete your accounts and go off grid man. That’s the only way now.
Haha. This is the only “social media” account I have.
Okay good! I’m only on the fediverse.
I just block the communities for foreign country’s politics and ignore any political stuff in the other ones.
You can manage what posts you see on Lemmy by subscribing to and blocking communities. If you want to get more extensive, even on your own subscriber feed, try applying Regex filters to the RSS feed Lemmy makes from it. (This is also a nice alternative to blocking people while keeping them out of the main feed, for instance if you have them in another one, or hate their posts so much you physically shake)
Great alternative to, say, complaining X instance posts TASS, as if it is fundamentally more unsavory than BBC or Der Spiegel, or asking that Youtube links be banned etc, would be filtering out those URLs with Regex. I love Regex. Teach everyone Regex
Thank you so much I forgot I could do that.
Part of this is a misunderstanding of how communities work - C/technology in lemmygrad or hexbear will be explicitly political. Those instances are political. .
There are like 15 different C/memes in the Fediverse, and many of them include a political component.
Also life is political. The media and topics you think are not political are very much political – they just reinforce the status quo.
Everything is political.
Hi lemmylemonade.
All these people saying ‘everything is political’ are definitely wrong. They might be wrapped up in human affairs (or even just addicted to social media and so far down the ‘engagement’ rabbit hole they can’t see an alternative), but that doesn’t mean you or I have to be. I agree with you, I would love to filter out political stuff.
So much ‘political stuff’ on social media, including lemmy and mastodon, is information operations by actors looking to manipulate opinion or just drive content, and is directly harmful.
What I do agree with most of the posters in this thread on, is that probably the way to avoid it is to limit all social media as much as possible and try and meet people irl. Social media turned out to be way too potent, it has killed the web as a platform for open and positive communication.
