I’m temporarily taking a break from political activism, and it is tiring seeing everything right now. I have been politically active for 5 years now, and I desperately need a break. Voyager for Lemmy, at least for me, pushes political content like crazy.
Voyager for Lemmy, at least for me, pushes political content like crazy.
No content is being pushed to anyone, Lemmy’s algorithms are very simple. It’s just there’s a lot of it.
You can unsubscribe from or block the politics and news communities, especially worldnews, and it should get rid of a lot of it. I find the experience to be better when subscribing to the stuff you want rather than remove the stuff you don’t want.
Not sure if Voyager exposes such a setting (probably?), but on Tesseract I’d do something like this:
it does, for those who want to limit political posts on Voyager here’s how
settings -> filters & blocks -> add keyword
Add stuff like ‘MAGA, Trump, Elon’ etc.If you still get political posts from political subs block the sub, if it’s not from a political sub see if you could add any new keywords from the title.
However this isn’t always going to work, there’s always going to be posts that done have anything political in the title but do in the image/post and come from a non-political sub but these steps will cut out most of them.
I’m not on the same act, but I will say I tried this to little avail.
Lemmy isn’t pushing political content, Lemmy users tend to be very politically charged, thus the content reflects that.
Very unfortunate to me
It’s a natural consequence of the decay of Capitalism, it will polarize and affect more and more people as time goes on.
What I can do about it?
Individually? Either try to ride with the Capitalists for as long as they last if you’re already one of them, or join the Working Class and help bring about Socialism.
Capitalism has a natural tendency to go from free competition and decentralization to centralization over time, which lowers the real rate of profit. In fighting this, Capitalists go for more centralization to raise absolute profits, which has a definite limit. This means Socialism, ie public ownership and central planning by the Working Class, is a logical step beyond Capitalism brought about by Capitalism’s very mechanisms.
I have an Introductory Reading List for Marxism if you want to read more about what you can do personally.
Make an account, subscribe intentionally, set your default view to “Subscribed” instead of “All” or “Instance”. Then your original account is still there if and when you’re ready to go back. Or just do this on your main account if you prefer.
There’s no algorithm pushing content on Lemmy, it’s how you choose to set your view and what you choose to subscribe to.
Lemmy is filled with political content. Voyager is probably just showing what is most popular if you are viewing all, which is going to show a lot of political content.
The best options is to curate a subscribed list or block political subs you don’t want to see.
I just set a filter to weed out the word ‘Trump’. The bubble is cozy, come on in
And musk, and about a dozen other names including Biden, Harris, and Bernie.
I’m specifically using Voyager on iOS and MacOS (and in Windows via BlueStacks) because I do exactly this. I block several whole instances (lemmygrad and hexbear), the active politics communities, and also specific keywords (elon, musk, trump, gop, republican, etc.), so I’m even able to browse All without my eyeballs being seared.
Is there anything left?
Not a whole lot, but it’s better than just my subbed feed. (Mostly niche interests far from any sort of critical mass.)
yes, the actual good stuff that i’d enjoy. Everyone’s not terminally online, and I’ve got things to do.
Not really, you can unfollow communities you don’t like and just not look at all
Nothing you can do about political comments and conversations though, plus if you get rid of all the political stuff that’s like 70% of the content gone anyway
I’ve unsubscribed from all the politics communities. The app the I use (Sync) has content filters so you can filter out post titles that contain the names of certain individuals that I don’t want to hear about
I use the Boost app, and I mute certain keywords so I don’t see content containing them. More than these but these are the political ones I started with; liberal, conservative, Trump, Biden, Kamala, MAGA, Elon
Also helps for the furry content, but different keywords.
Surely just mostly different keywords
Block news and politics subs on Lemmy.world
Others ones if it is still too much.
These parasites just posting endless engagement slop. Cut it.
You can also block the whole instance
There are some Lemmy clients where you can block specific keywords, communities and instances.
Switch over to only reading communities you opt in to - avoid political ones.
This is the best you can do.
On Eternity for Lemmy, its super easy.
After the election. I decided I just needed to take a break from the constant stream of negativity. Using these keywords in my post filter has removed political posts almost completely:
Trump, Kamala, Vance, Walz, Biden, Harris, Donald, Republican, Republicans, Democrat, Democrats, GOP, DNC, MAGA, liberal, conservative, government, court, Military, NATO, Nazi, Election, genocide, fascist, fascism, Twitter, trans, gender, police, cop, cops, abortion, federal, Europe, U.S., American, China, Israel, Gaza, Palestine, Russia, Russian, Chinese, Ukraine, Cruz, Thomas,
I recognize my privilege of being able to ignore these posts temporarily, and hope to come back from my hiatus with the will to do something about our awful political situation.
Yoink, I might just add that list to my filters
Electoral reform is still on the menu!
You can filter political keywords on some clients.
Block subs with a lot of that content. Then, to get rid of the other half of it, block users that post a lot of political content. It takes a while to get rid of most of it. Also, some social media platforms have less political content than others. If you are willing to create what you want to see, maybe you can make a sub or group somewhere that has a bot for filtering that kind of content.
Politics have purposely been shoved in our faces because of the geopolitical situation the world is in. There are a lot of actors in this scene trying to pull you in every direction. Creating safe, non-political spaces is in and of itself a kind of rebellion and many people desire it despite not admitting to it. Remember how some non-political spaces were before they became politicized? If people force it to become partially that way again, the frequent mental illness of the modern age might reduce to a decent degree.
I get that things look really bad, but stressing about it online until you are too burnt out to make sense of things or do the things you’re supposed to do is exactly what some of your more dangerous enemies actually want. It takes some guts to fight the common political addictions of the modern age - everyone wants to make you feel like it’s all that matters and it is NOT
