Hi lemmylemonade.

All these people saying ‘everything is political’ are definitely wrong. They might be wrapped up in human affairs (or even just addicted to social media and so far down the ‘engagement’ rabbit hole they can’t see an alternative), but that doesn’t mean you or I have to be. I agree with you, I would love to filter out political stuff.

So much ‘political stuff’ on social media, including lemmy and mastodon, is information operations by actors looking to manipulate opinion or just drive content, and is directly harmful.

What I do agree with most of the posters in this thread on, is that probably the way to avoid it is to limit all social media as much as possible and try and meet people irl. Social media turned out to be way too potent, it has killed the web as a platform for open and positive communication.

But wouldn’t that suggest the authors were smart dumb people with titanic egos?

These people are academics, so surely that can’t be right?