I think lemmmyworld is probably best seen as a mostly no politics instance

Really? Seems political as fuck to me - this whole place does. Whole thing is predominantly left-wing (minus the odd troll and "enlightened centrist") and in principle I agree with most of it - it does get fucking exhausting, though. Saddening, frustrating. And that's just the content itself, to say nothing about volume: a dozen instances on here, multiplied by a dozen or two explicitly or just practically political communities/mags per instance, and more appearing every day.

The sheer weight of all the politics and (admittedly justified) outrage started getting to me, and I started taking steps to filter it out for mental health reasons. Stewing in this much politics is frankly not good for anyone. Let alone US (and, somewhat, UK) politics. Let alone US politics for those of us who aren't American - and are therefore powerless to do anything about it, but for whom assorted idiocy over there still has very serious repercussions. (And is being eagerly mimicked by assorted wannabe-fascist twats over here, too - see, it's easy to get caught up in.)

So, filtering it out is the obvious solution, right? Unfortunately, that is not easy: in fact there's no good way of doing it at all, because mags end up on the front page even if they're ghost towns where only one guy/bot is posting. In other words, the front page has absolutely no notability requirements. (I'm on kbin if this is less of a problem on other instances/"frontends" or whatever.)

Even the one mag I saw with any kind of decent memes was offputtingly, angrily political half the time. And I'm not doing the "bOtH sIdEs" thing or similar shitheeling - it was mostly LGBTQ stuff, and they have every fucking right to be angry about a lot of things. I am too, for that matter. It's just the quantity, and negativity, and the difficulty in getting a tiny, little fucking break from it to look at some cats in boxes. Even on Reddit it's at least more feasible to block individual subs, because here one "sub" can correspond to several communities on several instances, all of which need to be individually blocked.

I'm jonesing for regex or tag-based community filters like a heroin addict, frankly. My only worry is that there'd only be ich_iel left and I'm not that steady in German.