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Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by boringg on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @01:17PM (#42952784)
User groups you would be interested in get hijacked by whatever the overall sentiment of Reddit is. Threads that aren't political suddenly get political for no reason. It's completely dead in there - content quality is brutally low.
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Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by awfulneutral on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @01:44PM (#42953190)
I just bookmark subreddits for things I'm interested in, and visit them individually. I hardly ever see any political content doing that.
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Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by bombcar on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @02:32PM (#42953857)
The key is to stay in smaller, dedicated subreddits and avoid anything remotely popular or generic.
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Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by JKCalhoun on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:38PM (#42958759)
r/localllama, r/bambulabs ... Politics has a way of creeping in.
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Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by lmm on Thursday February 06, 2025 @12:48AM (#42959460)
Politicisation happens, though slowly. Therewasanattempt used to be funny pictures/videos and is now purely TDS. My city's sub used to have useful local content and is now about 50% national politics.
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Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by tacticalturtle on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @06:32PM (#42956908)
The wave of X bans was so frustrating. Particularly for sports subreddits where that’s where all of the breaking news and team announcements happen.

In fact NFL teams are specifically banned from having bluesky accounts as an official media channel, and r/nfl still banned X/Twitter.

sigh

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Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by nmfisher on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @07:11PM (#42957269)
Why are NFL teams banned from having an official account on Bluesky?
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Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by tacticalturtle on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:13PM (#42958559)
It’s not an “approved social media site”:

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/new...

Presumably there’s some money that needs to change hands between the NFL and a social media site.

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