Seriously every other post, every sub seems like nothing but politics. It’s so boring and disgusting. What made reddit great at one time was the diversity of genres and depth. Lemmy is very shallow and politically motivated it seems. I have been here since the Reddit exodus. It’s always been this way.
Do different Lemmy servers have different content?
Are certain severs curated?
Where do I find the depth and deep subject matter.
Because everything is politics
This. Fuck man this world is so spoiled by a long peace that people don’t fucking understand the stakes anymore.
Apparently we are rapidly approaching another period of time where just nicely begging people to take this shit seriously isn’t enough and we are going to have to kill a hundred million people or so for another generation can learn this same fucking lesson we’ve been repeating for some 40,000 years.
But no, Love Island is on, so feel free to ignore the incipient fascism bearing down on you and condemn your children to a world where that won’t be possible.
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Artist?
Georg Flegel
There is a degree of anount.
I’d say my Reddit subs are similarly set up to my Lemmy communities.
My feed is 80% (US) politics or (F)OSS politics even on stuff that is neither of them in the first place.
Reddit on the other hand was more like 20% potentially political, 75% random stuff like memes or niche sub posts and 5% political/story time subs.Sadly the reddit feed became almost unusable. The r/sysadmin feed is atrocious.
because politics literally affect every aspect of life? i mean i know it can be tiring and it’s really depressing, i know on mastodon you can filter out posts but idk about lemmy/piefed, but politics will always be talked about and trying to avoid it entirely or saying “i dont do politics” is just ignorance
It is not. Subscribe to the feeds you want the view only subscribed. There are several views.
This! I also configured my client to hide posts with ~10 keywords (
trump,ice,kills, etc), and my feed suddenly had a much more diverse set of topics. Usually there is a common keyword between topics you’d want to see less of; you just need to keep it in mind while you’re browsing so you can find it!Too bad that almost every other posts got distracted by the users going into (F)OSS politics/drama instead
Why is all of Lemmy politics?
Do you know why the Lemmy platform and the lemmy.ml instance were created in the first place?
Lemmy is very shallow and politically motivated it seems.
Politics is orthogonal to depth. The existence of shallow politics in no way suggests the absence of deep politics.
Everything is politics. The moment you think otherwise you become part of the problem.
Lemmy (and other fediverse services) users are mostly here because we have some strong opinions about mainstream social media, and those opinions are tied closely to politics these days.
If we didn’t, we’d probably be on Reddit, xitter, Facebook, etc. instead.
And if you get a bunch of people with strong opinions about something together, there’s a good chance the conversation is going to go in that direction sooner or later.
And like others have said, everything is politics, basically every aspect of life can be tied to politics in some way.
And there is a lot of political stuff going on all around the world that everyone really should be concerned about and following, and there’s a lot to discuss about it.
And I get it, it can be exhausting. I definitely wish I lived in a world where I didn’t have to pay as much attention to politics as I do.
The best thing you can do is to be active in communities you want to see have more activity. If no one’s posting the kind of “non-political” content you want to see, be the person posting it, if you build it they will come. Be the change you want to see.
In general, all Lemmy servers have the same content as every other one because they’re federated. There are some cases where instances have defederated from each other, and admins have done bans and such that I think may change what content is available to you
Also you’re on .ml, which is a pretty explicitly political instance. I don’t know all the technical details but I’m also under the impression that the mods and admins there are pretty quick to bring their ban-hammer down hard on people who disagree with them, so that could potentially be having some effect of what you’re able to see, though things are certainly looking pretty political from over here on .world too.
What kind of silly baby are you?
All life is politics. Go play with your Legos, baby-man.
Legos
Even legos are politics, did you seen the Iranian lego videos?
Most of us aren’t so privileged that we get to pretend that politics doesn’t control and shape the course of our lives.
I wish I could be as disconnected from the reality of whats happening around us as these people seem to be, genuinely envious.
I would have less anxiety, for a start.
I have been here since the Reddit exodus
Presumably, you left for political reasons?
Something missing from this discussion (that I’ve read) is the size of Lemmy. On a much larger platform you can have 6 different flavours of meme communities or tech communities where there are rules banning political news etc but there’s simply not enough people here to split communities.
It also means that smaller communities, like video game specific communities, have all but died off as the couple of people that started them have lost interest or left Lemmy.
While I get some of the arguments I’ve seen against trying to grow Lemmy these small communities are doomed without a dedicated passionate following and places based around niche topics are never going to survive in such a small space.
With all that said; politics are universal and touch on pretty much every aspect of our lives so political topics come up in every community, even small ones and especially one as politically charged as Lemmy.
Because:
Luckily you can choose what you see. If you don’t like politics, just block it or don’t subscribe to it. I just checked and my scaled main page is 17:3 non-politics to politics posts. (One of the 3 is this post here)
Sure, there’s a lot of politics on here but definitely not all of Lemmy is about politics… If you dislike politics, I suggest you block Lemmy communities with politics in them if you dislike to that extent… Or you could just not subscribe to any such communities and stick to “Home” or “Subscribed” which will only give you content from communities you’re subscribed with.
I almost never see politics in my feed. But Lemmy itself was created by leftist communists, it was never built to be a politics free space
It takes manual curation if you want to avoid it
