They don’t.

Clear or curate (remove anything political) your watch history, start liberally (hue hue) blocking shit. Install BlockTube. (uBO and SponsorBlock are also a given, just slightly less on topic)

Most of the content I noticed from there was angry doomposting and news. They’re not at the same level as the blatantly malicious ones, I just don’t want to deal with that shit as having too much of it blared at me bums me out.

They should, but won’t. The Lemmy people (or at least devs) aren’t exactly apolitical, more’s the great big whopping pity. Also downvoting is unlikely to do shit, I would suggest blocking it. I moved to lose .ml, grad, hexbear, slrpnk immediately and this place is so much better for it.

It’s more of a permanent flooding situation, but, well, election year. I just block shit that gets to be a nuisance - some instances are entirely devoted to shrill screeching, some have legitimately decent communities that just aren’t worth the astroturfing/doomposting/negativity/politics/malicious management/people being twats or 100 other reasons. None of it’s missed, except it shows how much of a ghost town this is when you remove the ragebait.

I lost my (several pages long) blocklist in the kbin.run disappearance, Lemmy actually having instance blocking does a lot to make it easier to build back up. I do wish blocking an instance also blocked its users, which doesn’t seem like the case.