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this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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There you go, that's your problem. Political topics always gets heated and brings out the worst in people, no matter the platform. The first thing I did is block all politics (and general news + sports) communities, and it's been a fairly pleasant experience so far for me, except for the odd troll or fanboy that shows up every now and then.
Lemmy.nz also defederated Hexbear, which helped a lot.
Technically they pulled a "you can't fire me, I quit" and defederated first, but whatever.
Yea, they tend to do that, think they did the same with blaahaj. Pretty funny tbh.
You didn't block all politics. Everything is political.
No it's not. You can have casual communities or gaming or sports communities that aren't political.
Casual conversation, gaming, and sports are political.