The last time Trump won, there was this constant barrage of scandals and frankly horrifying news permeating my online experience. And while I admit that from my European perspective, there was some entertainment in the whole thing, the experience was more exhausting than anything else.

I like to keep up with the news, but I also like my mental health. Are there any effective strategies for keeping the amount of trump-spam I’m exposed to at an absolute minimum, while also keeping up with whatever else is going on in the world?

  • 🧟‍♂️ Cadaver@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I have a filter on, I block the words “Elon”, “Kamala” and “Trump”. Furthermore I block politics community. It’s not like they are about anything else than US politics anyway.

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      9 hours ago

      Unfortunately, posts that do include the keyword in the text but not in the title, still get through. Case in point, this one.

    • Horta@discuss.tchncs.de
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      12 hours ago

      Legitimate question, did you temporarily disable it, or did it just not manage to block this post because those words aren’t in the title?