I joined Lemmy a few days ago and have been reading around. 90%+ of the content I see, even on non-politics related communities, is political in some way. I have no interest in that, so it’s tiring, especially when it’s inserted in the comments of completely unrelated posts.
Because you’re not filtering by your subscribed communities.
Because mods here have no self respect for their communities. They seem to be fully onboard with politics and AI slop. It’s really weird.
Life is political, and it leans left.
I only see politics on the few explicitly political and news munis I’ve subbed.
Are you browsing by ‘all’? If so, switch to ‘subscribed’ and it’ll prolly fix 95% of it for you.
Politics need to be contained to their own communities. Propaganda everywhere (even if it’s propaganda that confirm your own views) drive people away.
Because Lemmy’s userbase was boosted by a lot of reddit banned people, and reddit bans people for political speech. I’d guess lemmys userbase doesnt represent a random sampling of the general population.
Is it really so many banned people? I thought most of us were here voluntarily due not liking reddit policies. I have my reddit account, I just don’t use it.
I’m in both camps. I made a suggestion that the world might be better off without Greg Abott, governor of Texas. That got me banned. I used an alt account for awhile until the API debacle and I haven’t been back since.
There was a huge influx of users when reddit broke third party apps, I have to imagine that was larger than reddit bans. But then not everybody stuck around so who knows.
It is mostly due to the API fiasco in 2023. The latest wave earlier this year barely pales in comparison.
From Fedecan
granted, it hasnt been measured that I can find.
I blame the .ml mods and all the ultra far left commies they invited here
It really depends on the instance. The big ones definitely have a lot of politics. More topic-focused instances tend to have less of that.
Because the majority of Lemmy users are American and the United States is in the process of collapsing, or at the very least, steep decline. So it’s kind of the primary topic of discussion.
If you don’t like it, you can edit your feed to only show the subs you want. It’s pretty easy.
OP wrote that politics is bleeding into non-political communities. So editing to show non-political communities is not going to work. And by communities, I mean magazines.
It’s not it’s mostly daft memes and pictures. I wish it was more political.
I’m not against some political stuff but there’s so much circlejerk opinion pieces that get posted. It’s just a bunch of people posting stuff that confirms their own beliefs, which is no better than what happens on the likes of Xitter. It’s just a different kind of echo chamber but people are okay with it because it’s left rather than right.
Maybe you should take more interest. Your vote should be informed.
The short answer is Lemmy has a theoretically near-infinite number of communities and no “engagement algorithm” so it’s up to us to curate what we want to see by blocking the communities we know we’ll never read, or, in some cases, blocking users that we can’t stand.
(Alternately you could curate just the comms you want and only browse “Home” communities)
If you want no politics there’s a number of hobbyist and nature-oriented communities, I’d start there.
Lemmy was originally founded by political extremists who wantted a space for their politics (tankies.) Its since grown past that, but that inflence is still present in many ways, most prominently in the influences of .ml. On top of this, politics is something inflammatory (and thus engaging) that affects everyone. Because its both engaging and broad-appeal, its going to be something everyone talks about. On the other hand, many niches, aside from being niche are often less inherently engaging (IE talking about a finished TV show). This makes it very hard to get the critical mass needed for a community to snowball into relevance. This means that (effectively) all you’re left with is the political communities and a couple niches that are broad appeal enough and have active enough users to be stable.
Maybe stop being a child and burying your head in the sand.
