That’s the thing - consuming anything even remotely resembling a healthy news diet requires actively avoiding most of it. Unfiltered news consumption means getting firehosed with information to the point of paralysis and depression. I wouldn’t be surprised if even a hermit living in the woods knows the latest about Trump and Musk. There’s no way to avoid hearing about them and who ever suggests you can clearly haven’t even tried.
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echodot@feddit.uk 1 day agoI have blocked any mention of trump and musk, and yet I still know every single stupid thing they do. It’s impossible to avoid it.
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 23 hours ago
echodot@feddit.uk 23 hours ago
At least part of the problem for me is that the app I am using to access Lemmy isn’t really very good. I can block based on keywords in the title but not keywords in the post.
If I really wanted to I could probably find an app with better blocking abilities and try then to see if it’s possible to completely block out the US politics, but I’m not massively incentivized to do so. Not being American I don’t really get massively riled up about it, I get more upset about my own country’s politicians, which most Americans probably have never even heard of.
The greater problem is simply the fact that US content in general seems to get over emphasized in lieu of everything else. There’s a whole world of stuff going on out there and all we ever hear about is America. Even when the US has moderately sane leaders that is the case.
I really shouldn’t know who the congressman for Texas is, there’s no reason I should know that, yet I do. California catches fire, world news, massive flooding in Australia, barely mentioned.
funtonite@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
I use Voyager and I’ve blocked a ton of communities, and keywords related to it. I like the blocking functions on there so far. I need to also subscribe to more communities so I can have a better Home feed.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
It’s almost like…one is the leader of the richest country in the world and the other is running a government office that’s dismantling the government.
Seriously, if you guys were alive in the 1930s you’d be there like “I just can’t pick up the paper anymore without talk of this Hitler guy!”.
echodot@feddit.uk 55 minutes ago
People keep saying that and although he’s abhorrent and probably a threat to democracy in the US I don’t think he’s going to start a war. He likes a convenient victim and honestly I don’t think he’s smart enough to come up with one.
Anyway a war wouldn’t achieve anything for him other than getting a target on his back.