It's pretty easy to filter out most political stuff on Lemmy and Reddit and similar platforms. Just subscribe to communities you like and stay out of All. If I go to All, I know what I'm in for. That's on me.
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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Respectfully I’d disagree. I can’t scroll through most of my meme or shitposting communities without seeing some politically flavored post, and there’s some kind of political comment on probably 85% of those posts. I get politics is an important topic but people often don’t have the class to keep politics out of the more “fun” communities. I keep to my subscribed list, block the spammers, but it’s fairly pervasive. I suppose that’s not all a bad thing as I get on social media a lot less atm. If you’ve got any additional tips though I’d love to hear them.
Thunder has keyword filters. These help but aren't perfect.
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Always hated the subtitles of Jeremy's line here. It's all it italics except the word "like". Suggesting either every word has emphasis except that one word, which is nonsense. Or that the emphasis is on "like", which doesn't work either in this context. Plus I remember this episode, and I'm pretty sure he put emphasis on "I" and "this"…
Where are the jeans and horses?
Ed Sheeran riding a horse in Britney's denim dress. His hair is shaped like Saddam. His eyes are two giant beans.
Everything is inherently political and engaging with the world around us is more healthy in the long run.
That’s not public transportation!
It is if you leave the keys in the ignition.
if you look at lemmy,ml, grad, and hexbear yea its super political. and then you have .world politics too.
I've started using keyword filters more and more. You'd be surprised how few you need to hide most of the political shouting.
Please provide me with tips!
"Slammed" and other hyperbolic words would probably be a good filter tbh. But politics words aren't too hard to concieve.
President, DEI, Tarriff, administration, immigration, controversial, budget
Just to name a few.
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insert [at this point I'm afraid to ask] meme
what is the "beans" thing?
Examples
https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/582011
If you look up beans you'll find a period of time where literally every meme were about beans
That and jeans for some reason
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Preach, my friend. It is actually the main reason I'm considering deleting my profile because part of the reason I left mainstream social media was to get away from politics and ideological lunatics, but this platform is fucking full of both. Even after filtering out as much of it as possible. Its like a cancer, spreading to every forum page on here.
Is there anywhere on the internet where people are just focusing on hobbies and interests that aren't mired in hatred and aggression?
Yes, in subforums of classic style internet forums. For example, the "DIY & Hobbies" or "Creativity & Art" subforums of Knockout
I'll try and check it out when I have the time to dive in. I'm honestly leaning more and one toward just cutting the chord and not using the internet for anything other than work related stuff and watching youtube on the DuckDuckGo player. The current state of the internet is for bots and hysterical political people and I'm honestly over it at this point. Even on this knockout place from the brief glance I had, it also looked like a very political place so eh.
Sure, some detox can be good. Take off when you need.
Yes, Knockout has places for politics but they're pretty good in keeping it in their place. I find it rather easy to dodge it. The discussions there seem rather peaceful. I like to go there when I have enough of the usual hostility and argument-winning mindsets you'd find on the "regular" internet like Reddit, Youtube, sometimes even Lemmy etc.
For what it's worth, I am very appreciative of you making me aware of Knockout as an alternative. 🤗
not trying to intrude or provide any valid critique or communicable perspective necessarily, but I was wondering what the concept of “Political” means, in terms you could best use to describe the feeling/notion to someone? I can think of a couple criteria in mind that I would associate as making a topic that was not otherwise related directly to activities of some level of some government somewhere, suddenly seem “Political” from my perspective. I am curious mostly just what criteria you might use to filter topics or general ideas?
if I sound like a bot it’s because spectrum disorder not autofill so read carefully for L’s sake
Anything that fits into ideological screeching.
There are plenty of topics out there that are political in nature that I do not mind, but I do mind the combative, aggressive, reductive and unintelligent discourse that has become the norm online. To me it is not actual discussion nor is it people wishing for a better world. It is just angry people screeching into the void and attacking anyone who disagrees with them and calling them whatever slur they can come up with.
I find it childish, unproductive and stupid and I don't want to see or hear it. If I wanted to rot my brain I could just drill a hole in my skull and pour some feces in there. It's the same effect that political screeching has.
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A real human bean