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.
It only is if you want it to be. Subscribe to what you like and that isn’t your will see if you only view those things.
Use scaled as a sort occasionally to see other posts in your subscriptions. I switch back and forth.
At the same time: the world is crazy now. There is a lot of push to take away things like platforms like this. People are trying to push opinions and people are scared.
Yeah I found that to be pretty annoying as well when I started. I don’t mind the occasional political post but it’s the same handful of talking points again and again so it gets old fast. I recommend just blocking users and blocking communities; you’d be surprised how quickly that clears them out. Lemmy is small enough that once you block a dozen or two people that post politics nonstop you give the other content room to breathe.
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.
Semi-related, this is what happened to onlyfans. It was basically the exact same concept as patreon, the only difference being that NSFW stuff was allowed. The result is it became ONLY PORN.
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.
It’s called Lemmy UI, my fren
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.
