Yea, lemmy is quite mean. I simply unsubscribed to the world news and politics communities. Now, my feed is just filled with cute posts like urs'. Whenever I want to see the talked about news story of the day, I just head on to "All" under "Active".
OH ALSO! Try to block the tankie communities/servers. They're the worst in this regard.
Mean people are everywhere, and the separation of internet communication makes it easy to be cruel. Wave them off and and celebrate the folks who treat others well.
What's amusing is that I just noticed now that you're the person who gave me the benefit of the doubt and defended me earlier. I seriously did not know that when I posted this, but after you replied here I recognized the name. Cheers friend.
I only see meanness in political posts, and some instances like hexbear (the_dunk_tank can get pretty toxic)
I have two lemmy apps, one that I have set up to block locally, and one with none of those blocks in place. You should try keyword filtering and instance blocking. You should add election, trump, biden, elon, musk, vote, war as your blocks (its what I use)
When I feel argumentative or simply don’t want to have posts hidden I go on the app with no instance blocks or keyword filters
When I want good news I use the one with my filters