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.
I don’t want to be political, but the government decided that me existing should be illegal. So now me posting about fashion or makeup or whatever is automatically political now.
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.
It’s embarrassing how often the first paragraph of the article contradicts the title of the post. Then you look at the comments and 99% of them are blathering as if the title is true.
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.
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It is mostly due to the API fiasco in 2023. The latest wave earlier this year barely pales in comparison.
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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.
granted, it hasnt been measured that I can find.
Your fatigue with it all is kind of their end game, I think? They’re doing stuff that probably should be talked about everywhere because it affects everyone. When people with authority grow tired of people complaining about it and trying to moderate it out, you’ve got problems.
Well I would push for a gunpla and modelmaking sub, but… people all over the world are dying to conservative political stances and authoritarianism.
So, do we talk about building plastic models or the death of innocents? Some would say both, but many of us know it’s hard to focus on hobby topics when it seems like Revelations might kick off at any given moment.
"Look what I made!-
PALESTINIAN GENOCIDE
RAMPANT FASCISM
“n-nevermind…”
Well you can filter them out, ya
If you want to avoid politics go on Pinterest or something. Nearly every discussion based social media will trend toward politics because that is the shithole we’re in now.
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.
remove all of the news communities from your feed and try again
Despite everything people here says, you’re probably not going to get a community without politics
Lemmy was born from politics, grew from politics and the largest communities are about politics
Your best bet is to leave if you’re sick of it (Lemmy is essentially stuck with politics forever) or get used to it and use some filters to prevent the worst
[email protected] is no politics! We’re a trans+ inclusive women’s only group though.
Thanks for this, joined! :)
Glad to have you 😃
???
Trans rights aren’t political?
Women’s rights isn’t political?
They’re only political because one side insists somehow they are.
Left-handed rights aren’t political.
Just existing as a woman or trans person isn’t political. No one ever says this about existing as a man.
Filter out the politics, and join a bunch of other forums instead.
Life is political, and it leans left.
Everything is political
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.
Not everyone who doesn’t want to talk about politics 24/7 is far right. In fact most are not. And people can disagree with you in some political points and, guess what? they can still not be far right. People be seeing far right in their own shadows nowadays. Stalin level paranoia.
