Post #3290555

@astronomerritt@hachyderm.io Yes. Thank you. I *know* what's happening in the world, but I don't come on mastodon to learn about it. I see so many otherwise great people boost political stuff that bypassed my filters and it's incredibly draining. Yes what's going on is terrible and messed up and I think if people have something they can do safely and without compromising their physical, mental, or emotional health, they should 100% do so. But not everyone can protest or do whatever people feel like they should. I personally am just so burnt out on everything politics and am doing what I can to remove unnecessary politics and news from my life for the sake of my sanity. I've had to sadly unfollow some great people because they were boosting stuff that was bypassing my filters and it made mastodon not feel fun. Saying "The US's dictator" or "tr*mp" doesn't help anyone, for example, it just bypasses my filters to take US politics off my timeline. It's not funny or clever or whatever people think it is. If people can't partake in activism for whatever reason, at least let them avoid unnecessary stressors. I realize I rambled a bit, I just get incredibly frustrated with people bypassing my filters time and time again. No matter how much I try I'm never, ever going to be able to filter out every mangling of a name, every euphemism for an event, every "clever" or "funny" nickname, or every cryptic reference to politics. I'll also note that if people ever make the argument of "We need to do activism, everyone needs to see it," my answer is that no they don't. Your "activism" should never be targeted to bypass the filters of people who don't want it. That's not activism, that's being a jerk and doing the exact thing we want to prevent on mastodon, showing people things they *don't* want to see. You want to post about politics? Great, do it. But at least have decency and use common keywords and/or names that people can catch easily with filters. I'm not sure why it's hard.