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 shit’s really fucked up right now and needs to be fixed.
You’re like one of those people in a world war, “Why’s everyone so political*?*”
Bitch, politics affects everything. And everything’s fucked up. Therefore, politics everywhere. Wanna have it not be everywhere? Fix it then. Don’t complain that everybody’s pissed off about everything and act like you’re confused, you aren’t that dumb. Nobody’s that dumb.
It has never been much different on Reddit. Maybe you only notice this here because people here tend to swing more left.
Lemmy suffers from the “alt-tech curse” in that since there is perfectly serviceable, normie friendly tech, for someone to come to the alternative you have to be not so normie.
Gab, Parler, Voat back in the day, Mastodon and Lemmy, bluesky, etc are all part of the same phenomenon of micro-exodi from established sites due to fitting poorly with existing moderation which, given the fact normies still use the sites, means we’re always looking at extremists of some kind.
Whether it’s the tankies on lemmy.ml, or the progs on bluesky, or the tradcons on parler and gab, it’s always some group being told “if you don’t like it here go make your own” and them doing it.
The problem is this makes these environments extremely off-putting to normies as every single motherfucker on each of these platforms has at least a Bachelor’s degree in scaring the hoes.
The reality is, if you want normie content, you’re gonna find it on platforms used by normies.
Lemmy is too niche to have karma farming bots reposting the same shit every hour, so cat videos etc are in short supply, and most of the people who do participate here have scary levels of politics brainrot.
You privilege is showing.
Whenever someone claims to be “apolitical”, or wants something to “not be political”, is because they are looking at it from a position of privilege where the status quo doesn’t hurt or challenges them. They also can’t see the oppression, hurt or risk that said thing exerts on others, minorities, or social pariahs.
Non-political is a mythical creature. It exists as a safe haven to lure the insensitive into apathetic inaction. Nothing is apolitical because existing as a human being is itself political.
This is a time of political crisis. The US government is upending decades of alliances and economics. The right wing is globally on the rise, and that means people’s lives are in danger. The environment is becoming more unpredictable and less supportive for humanity.
There’s a lot of important political shit to talk about. If we were living in a boring utopia, there’d be less, probably.
Also, what do you even consider “political”? Some people will tell you that a story about a man and a woman getting married isn’t political, but a story about two men getting married is. That’s a really low quality analysis there.
Everything is political
Because you’re not filtering by your subscribed communities.
You need to post which client you’re using before sharing a screenshot. We don’t all use the same client as you. :)
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That’s Lemmy’s default CSS webpage.
I’ve never been there. Lemmy is exclusively a cell phone activity for me.
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.
Dude. Politics is huge right now because we’re going through a tough time globally. It’s a lot of people justifying cruelty and invasions.
These were the hot topics so that’s what grew fastest. Remember that Lemmy is still kinda new.
I know that if I need an oura-/smart ring community I can either wait or I can start one. I’m not gonna start one as it’d be negligent of me.
What do you want to see? What do you not? Find or start what you want, and block what you do not.
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.
I’m okay with far right people being driven away, actually.
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
I blame the .ml mods and all the ultra far left commies they invited here
YSK they CREATED Lemmy
Id like it if they created it and let saner people moderate it
but noooo, they need to tell the world about how China isnt doing genocides, and how Ukraine is filled with nazis
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.
Does that matter if they’re all federated? Or do you propose to block instances?
