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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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 30 minutes ago)

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