It seems anytime I try to check out Mastodon it is always some negative political view or affiliation of why X, Y & Z is bad. Is this just what most people like boosting or is it a sign of botting to push negativity over the more positive headlines?

I do understand I can switch to any Mastodon instance I want and stick to a small community, however I like keeping up with trending topics in the world. Maybe the most popular accounts in the Mastodon community likes to rise up pitchforks every minute.

  • RxBrad@lemmings.world
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    1 year ago

    It gets a lot more bearable once you setup a Politics filter that blocks dozens & dozens & dozens of keywords (mine is up to 66 words so far)…

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        Here’s what I’m rolling with right now… I try to nuke everything even vaguely political…

        GOP
        Trump
        Biden
        conservatives
        elections
        voter fraud
        senate
        senator
        house of representatives
        whitehouse
        reproductive rights
        pro-life
        pro-choice
        2nd amendment
        gun control
        Marxist
        MAGA
        Pelosi
        climate change
        Parliament
        koch
        murdoch
        desantis
        politician
        fascist
        Rudy
        leftis
        liberal
        antisem
        right wing
        supremac
        on strike
        hateful
        elect
        liberals
        republicans
        democrats
        republican
        democrat
        congress
        abortion
        communist
        socialism
        socialist
        capitalism
        capitalist
        fascism
        vax
        global warming 
        ukrain
        covid
        proud boy
        cops
        police
        defund
        minimum wage
        billionaire
        the government
        injustice
        human rights
        climate crisis
        democracy
        private healthcare
        public healthcare
        labor contract
        on strike
        
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      1 year ago

      This is perfect. My current list just contains 10 different ways to block posts about covid.