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.
There’s probably a correlation between people who are aware enough of reddit’s practices and policies to want to switch to Lemmy and people who are engaged in or by political discussion.
I’d say lemmy has a stronger “fuck the system” vibe, whatever the topic. Privacy, trans rights, environmental issues, financial oligarchy…
Even the system supporters pretend they don’t these days
Don’t fix it if it ain’t broke’.
Is broke’.
Yes, Lemmy is probably 60% people who were banned from Reddit for being overly political.
“I want rights”
“I want to not be an open air slave to the billionaires”
“I recognize some deep systemic flaws of our systems”
I guess that’s overly political.
Hell, on Reddit being anti-nazi is considered political.
I didn’t get banned but I definitely would have by now if I’d stayed.
Not to mention almost everything is political these days…
Like, the root cause of most our issues are political and there’s a lot of issues. So it shouldn’t be surprising most topics are tied back to it.
When 1/3 of the country makes the president their entire personality, and hate the other 70%, whether they are LGBTQ, minority, democrats, or just women, it’s going to be hard to avoid politics.
one particular country.
but also a worldwide trend
I discovered Lemmy by looking for a Reddit like place where it’s easier to post to (doesn’t have 1 billion filters and rules).
And if you tell other normal people to come here eventually this place will become less extremist
First time on the Internet huh?
Well eventually there will be so many normies it becomes reddit then we just have to start over again lol
Correct, we need the normie here!
I don’t want the normie here.