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.
I think this is about when you browse more than anything else. A significant portion of posts on Lemmy are posted by serial posters. If you don’t browse when they post their stuff, you could think it’s all us news bots
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.
Because:
Everything is political, and Lemmy was made as an alternative to Reddit based on ideological reasoning in favor of FOSS and federation. Lemmy was made by communists, and there are a ton of us communists here as a consequence.
You’re on .ml it’s literally Marxist Leninist. You’re like an American standing in Mexico complaining about everyone speaking Spanish.
To be fair, Lemmy.ml just has lots of MLs, Lemmygrad.ml is the actual ML instance. Also to be fair, many nstances do have strong political views as a part of their identity.
And also many people joined ml as they saw it as the default instance.
Yep, Lemmy.ml isn’t actually something that can be categorized as “cleanly ML.”
Fair
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 have been here since the Reddit exodus
Presumably, you left for political reasons?
Because that’s the world we live in. Politics matter more than you want them too. Politics affects our food, health, hobbies, etc…
Reddit is a for profit entity that needs mass engagement to survive. Obviously they are going to want a sanitized, “good vibes” experience
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.
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.
Everything is politics. The moment you think otherwise you become part of the problem.
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 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!Yep works well in piefed. Make a filter and see politics stop appearing.
Too bad that almost every other posts got distracted by the users going into (F)OSS politics/drama instead
