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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • Neither.

    I come to lemmy as a means of entertainment, blocking people from posting Trump/musk articles from shitty sources like Newsweek isn’t going to change how informed I am, it’s just going to continue being entertainment.

    The most important thing any of us could have done was vote. I did do that.

    There a lot of other ways that could explain why that’s not gonna happen at least in my case, but I’m not gonna go into them.

    You can understand the issues without having them shoved in your face. Id argue a lot of people would understand them a lot better if they blocked them, and went out and intentionally sought the information rather than someone curating the most ragebait ridden shit the could find times 1000 every day and serving them to you.

    And lastly and most importantly, being informed means nothing if we’re not willing to take to the streets and solve this problem with violence. We’re past information, reason, requests, and protests.




  • So far, the filter words “Trump, musk, Elon, Tesla, Teslas, maga” have done wonders. I can still see news, even political news, but instead of 9 out of 10 of the visible posts being about those two fuckoffs, it’s around 1 in 50, maybe 100, which will still keep me informed enough.

    As for the blocking mechanisms, I really don’t have anything on that, I haven’t ran into that issue, but I’ve successfully avoided other users by blocking them. It may warrant another post to find out more if it means enough to you.