Yea. I actually had !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca filtered, so I had to unblock it and edit my post.

In !australia@aussie.zone, they have a huge banner at the top of the sidebar telling users “Before you post, if it’s politics or world news, post it in the specific sub-communities at x and y”. It makes a huge difference in how the main Australia community is much less hectic and easier to find discussion and text posts, vs. !canada@lemmy.ca.

The sidebar of !canada@lemmy.ca does not have any banner or mention of !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca, but is instead buried underneath a collapsed menu. This I would think leads to users posting political and geopolitical news in !canada@lemmy.ca instead of !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca, which the latter is better suited for such posts.

It can also sometimes be hard to distinguish between notable news. For example, if there is a new Prime Minister, should c/Canada allow it?

In those instances, I suppose it is fine to post that in the main !canada@lemmy.ca community if it is that major. I’d imagine there would be text/general discussion posts relating to that issue, so such news would be in the main canada community anyways in that format.

I think filtering based on link posts vs. text and image posts would be valuable. Perhaps !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca and (world)news@lemmy.ca could become communities dedicated to link posts (posts that link to news sites, etc.), and then !canada@lemmy.ca would be text and image posts. (i.e., open ended discussion, etc.). It seems like right now !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca currently allows text posts as well, but I suppose that is fine and there isn’t that big of a need to change that.

It can also sometimes be hard to distinguish between notable news. For example, if there is a new Prime Minister, should c/Canada allow it?

Unfortunately I’m on the wrong side of the border, so I’m more screwed in a way, but means the incentive to get out is much higher.

Holy sheesh. Should I take this at face value? Seems plausible.

The thing about implementing tariffs for a day then turning it off again after 24 hours to “test whether cheetoland’s or the Canada’s ecnomy crashes or not” seems too good to be true. The thing about destabilizing Canada with (social) media campaigns, then I remember the fact that I’ve already seen dozens of posts of “American media pretending to be Canadian” right here on Lemmy.

This article literally screams “get out ASAP” to me like it’s ringing alarm bells. I’ve never felt so scared or paranoid. Is this the thing that convinces me that I gotta leave my hellscape I’m in and emigrate elsewhere?

Canada clamped down on immigration several years ago, so that option seems, mostly difficult at best if at all. Not sure about Australia, England, and NZ either.

By the time the world allows those who want to leave the hellscape for elsewhere, it’s almost certainly going to be too late and much worse off :(.

I feel so scared and paranoid, and I’ve never been this scared and paranoid for just existing where I’ve lived my entire life. And yet I’ve already blocked dozens of news feeds and whatnot, and it still doesn’t go away with more slop that gets through the ever growing cracks. Can’t hardly focus or do a thing at all.

A slightly different graph from Fedecan shows the user growth more clearly without the Hexbear blip

Highest daily growth since 2023 at 1.2k per day the past few days.

Kinda wild. I really gotta leave and get out of this pile of a dumpster fire I’m in, and head to Canada or someplace. This screenshot is just insane. I have no words for what I’m seeing here in this screenshot.

Glad I no longer post to reddit anymore. May go ahead with a essentially full block of reddit and essentially all of Big TV outright at some point. I’ve thought about cutting off Big TV completely; as hearing from American news media has been driving me on the verge of outright mental insanity, but now it seems like I gotta cut Big TV outright.

I’ve never been so thankful and glad to be on Lemmy and Mastodon for this wild ride since the start. I’m realizing just how dire it is out there. Having to get this off my chest with nowhere to vent to. Now I just need to find a Lemmy community or something that helps with people coping with this insanity, because I might need to hide this community again otherwise for my sanity. I already had most of the news and politics communities hidden on Lemmy to manage the flow of insanity, but went back and forth on this one this week.