People talk about echo chambers a lot, but I’ve found it nearly impossible to keep politics and general doom content out. I’m rapidly losing my interest in the Internet as a whole simply because it seems to bring mostly pointless suffering to myself.
The Internet is a big place. There are lots of cat memes that don’t depict any suffering at all.
And for everything else, you can try to mask the suffering with Doom music.
People talk about echo chambers a lot, but I’ve found it nearly impossible to keep politics and general doom content out. I’m rapidly losing my interest in the Internet as a whole simply because it seems to bring mostly pointless suffering to myself.
My lemmy client lets me filter out posts based on words or phrases.
I found my mood improving when I started filtering out the clickbait and doom.
Don’t sell the Internet short. It also brings a lot of pointless suffering to others as well