Yeah as much as politics are really important, especially for folks living in the US right now, it’s easy for it to become like 75% of all traffic you see and it’s a bit suffocating.
Political views and frustration are something lots of lemmy has very much in common, but it’s not healthy to stew in it 24/7 while it drowns out all other more niche communities. There’s gotta be some way of finding ballance between being informed and political solidarity, and having healthy social engagements that aren’t about how broken the world is
To add on that, lemmy.zip announced in their last update that they hide political communities from the All feed by default
Yeah as much as politics are really important, especially for folks living in the US right now, it’s easy for it to become like 75% of all traffic you see and it’s a bit suffocating.
Political views and frustration are something lots of lemmy has very much in common, but it’s not healthy to stew in it 24/7 while it drowns out all other more niche communities. There’s gotta be some way of finding ballance between being informed and political solidarity, and having healthy social engagements that aren’t about how broken the world is