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How do I filter out political posts?
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this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2025
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Human life, human endeavors, human ambitions, are all inherently political. Politics is literally humans disagreeing on something. Technology is politics. Lemmy itself, the Fediverse, the software it's built on, is inherently a political act of rebellion against corporate controll of discourse. Shitposting was literally invented through political discourse, for political purposes. That's what it's always been about.
Wanting to avoid politics is a political choice. It's Chooseing to be ignorant of the world shaping forces that effect your life and the lives of everyone else.
I've got no advice for you.
You do you. But whatever you may do, will be political. There's no way around that.
I can read news through news outlets online which I do from time to time. I just want my lemmy to have tech related posts only. Your comment made me chuckle.
You signed up on one of the most political instances there is. Switch instances and browse Local. Like the other person suggested, lemmy.zip or programming.dev are both good options.
Thank you for the suggestion. I wan't aware of that at the time I created this account.
Does this mean I only see comments from the instance I set up an account with?
No, comments are federated, or else I would be almost an island by my self on my instance
But tech IS political. Can you show me an example of non-political tech?
Maybe we are being too general. How is c/selfhosted political?
Self hosting is a refutation of corporate owned infrastructure, and the potential privacy loss. Politics.
Join Lemmy.zip and just browse the local comms. I believe they are tech centered.
It is not that deep bro 😭
Being on Lemmy, or an internet forum in general and trying to filter out politics is like going to a political rally and blocking your ears and looking away.
Even Comedian is largely political, reaction youtubers, movies, tv shows, music, paintings, every piece of entertainment has always some political aspect to it. And Lemmy especially, for denying big tech and governments privacy intrusion on our day to day life. Most Lemmy users are moderate-far left leaning, 99% of the posts I see, I can identify some political viewpoints, so it would be very hard to "filter out politics."
But if you really want to, just find the channels you want and block them, subscribe to mostly apolitical ones.