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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 Iโ€™m exposed to at an absolute minimum, while also keeping up with whatever else is going on in the world?

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[โ€“] Ashiette@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] Horta@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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?

[โ€“] serenissi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I think they blocked in all and this community is subbed?

[โ€“] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Ashiette@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

It's true, it also doesn't block images that have these words, but you filter more than 90% of the posts that you wouldn't want to see.