That’s my experience as well. In order to get a healthy, moderate amount of news you have to actively avoid them. I even tried avoiding weather forecasts at one point but people kept telling me.

I’d rather stay informed too but not at the expense of my mental wellbeing. It’s not political posts that’s the issue here - it’s the amount of them.

I’d embarrass her so hard after talking to me like that.

It’s pretty disingenuous to suggest that my decision to block political posts on Lemmy comes from a desire to stay ignorant.

sticking your head in the sand and hoping it doesn’t effect you until it’s over is probably not the best way to handle it.

Consuming anger inducing political articles all day every day is probably not the best way to handle it either. For most people, this likely has far greater effect on their mental wellbeing than what these guys are doing policywise. On Reddit, there atleast was a slim chance that you could make an convincing enough argument that someone would drop their support for them but good luck finding such person on Lemmy. We’re preaching to the choir here.

That is what does most of the heavy lifting for me too. Nearly all political discussion here is, in fact, discussion about either Trump or Musk. I’d be willing to bet that at any moment, atleast third of the posts on anyone’s front page includes either of those names.

I’d like to be informed too but at this point it’s essentially a choice between being firehosed by american politics or blocking all of it. I wouldn’t mind if it was just the occasional article when something actually newsworthy happens. Now it’s for a large part just recreational outrage.

No worries dude!

That is not even remotely what I’m saying.

I’ve unfollowed so many communities due to the overwhelming amount of political articles already. If I keep doing that there’s not going to be anything left to browse soon. People are posting that stuff even on meme communities.

In summary: one of the videos was daughter swapping porn and OP was her daughter. The comments were basically demanding OP to be traumatized by it and her dad to be canceled, but OP seemed to just find it amusing and was more or less unaffected by it.

The thread seems to have been removed. It was posted to mildyinfuriating few days back.

In my experience it’s the entirety of Lemmy, not just few communities.

I tried that. My blocklist was well over 1000 users long, my feed slowed down to almost complete halt and the amount of politics and extremism remained the same.

And why is that a reason to not bring her friends over?

Your dad might be a gooner.

No, listen to the comments. You need to get angry and traumatized by this. We demand it. Your dad needs to be canceled.

Because her dad watches porn?

This is happening to me constantly as well. I have no idea how someone thought that was a good idea.

Age of consent in Germany is 14 but for someone over 21 years old it’s 16.