Recently over the past couple of months, I’ve seen political discussion on every single social media (yes, that includes Lemmy) become a bear fight full of propaganda. Twitter/X is becoming a racist hellhole with people hating Jews, Black people and Muslims for existing whilst Lemmy is quickly fostering extremism. There is no where on the Internet, except for small chat channels, that is normal. What do I mean by normal?
Every single place is an echo chamber. Those inside it will shout that the other place is one, but we all know it. Lies and propaganda are constantly being cycled on Lemmy and the other Fediverse, but nobody bats an eye because “we’re better” and the other side is full of disgusting people. The same thing is happening in conservative spaces. I don’t want to talk about “race wars” “black fatigue” or “Jew bioweapons” nor do I want to talk about mass murder of billionaires and complete social destruction. I just want all of you to be normal.
Tribalism has influenced all of these spaces. In the information age, we have become the dumbest and most extreme political speakers in history. We no longer value the truth of information, just the optics. We sour the airwaves with filth, bringing it into schools, universities and even political administrations. We have madmen destroying the biggest country on Earth whilst people here defend the indefensible.
There is no more love in politics. No more “agreeing to disagree”, no more facts or intelligence. It’s just pure, unfettered hate.
Lemmy’s just the lesser of two evils. Whilst I post here a lot, let me be clear: this place is a shithole. Sure, you guys aren’t as washed and feral as conservatives, but you guys are still washed and feral. You guys infect everything with misplaced social justice, constantly finding to ruin everything on the basis of your apparent prejudice. You can’t wait to bring people down, and never the other way around.
There is no reason to talk about politics on the Internet anymore. Everyone is lying. Everyone has an agenda. Everyone is being a bad person.
I am so tired
That’s not necessarily bad, it helps limit how much one doomscrolls. I feel like I haven’t got sucked into being here for long. Just once a day I check what’s popular and I’m done with it. I know already the content I’m not seeing is garbage.
The problem with that is that blocking is such a blunt and indiscriminate tool. Someone might just get overly emotional about one specific topic and end up getting blocked because of it - but then that same person might be making a lot of sense in another discussion, and now their voice isn’t being heard at all. What I really need is an intelligent content filtering tool where I can specify the kind of comments I want to filter out, and it would do so based on the content of individual comments/post rather than blocking entire users.
What you are attempting to describe in very obtuse terms is empathy and it seems you desire to eliminate the need for it in yourself.
I have no idea what you’re trying to say here.
On my case at least I don’t have any users blocked (but I might start doing that for some really obnoxious people). I do have a lot of communities and some instances blocked. That’s how I know I’m not missing out on anything.
But yeah, we need some really good filtering tools, one App i use on mobile (mlem) let’s me filter out posts with specific words on the title but it’s still too blunt. Probably something with regex would be fine.