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.
lemmynsfw.world doesn’t have that much politics …
This is a link sharing platform. Primarily links to news articles.
Don’t conflate politics to reading the news. If you have no interest in reading the news, you probably shouldn’t be on a link sharing site.
Not true at all. On the other site you can curate subs so your feed consists entirely of puppies and pottery tips.
I use a client with keyword filters implemented (Thunder on Android) and while I still see some every day, it isnt every single post like it seems when unfiltered.
Block communities you don’t want to see. Browse and look for communities that aren’t currently hitting your front page and subscribe. Yesterday, I discovered one that was right up my alley that I hadn’t seen after nearly two years on Lemmy.
- block all political comms
- block all political meme comms
- block all political news comms
- block posts with politicians names
After you do that, Lemmy is quite nice and easy to browse.
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Well, a lot of people jumped ship from other platforms because of politics. So they’re gonna be here.
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It’s a time where politics are fucking with all of us, so it’s topical.
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reddit still exists and has a larger base, so if you want to talk about stardew valley, just by the nature of numbers that’s where they’re gonna gather.
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There are a lot of “lurkers” here, not a lot of posters. Seriously, notice how often The Picard Maneuver, or Stamets keeps popping up.
God I hate to be the guy who says this especially because I am ABSOLUTELY being hypocritical right now, but you gotta be the change you want.
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We’re all kind of living in hell because of our disfunctional system and fearful countrymen. So we’re just kinda trying to cope together by commiserating.
The block button is your responsibility. Use it frequently and this place is great. I’ve blocked loads of communities and now the only problem with my page is when I run out of content and everything goes all German.
Well there are a lot of factors, and there are plenty of Niche communities you could pay attention to more often, but the most overwhelmingly significant factor is that shits really fucking bad right now. Like yeah we all wish we could live in a in a time where politics was boring and not life-threatening but that’s not how the world is at the moment. You just can’t escape reality. But you have to physically ignore things to try to remove politics from your world. I don’t even know how it’s possible, everything is being touched right now by politics, everything.
Unfortunately the vast majority of us are not privileged enough to be able to ignore politics in our lives.
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.
All I can say is be the change you want to see. Submit posts, maybe mod a community. I’m doing !gamedev, and it gets political sometimes, like any career field, but it is what it is.
Maybe you want a Marvel community, or whatever. Find your interest and dive in!
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.
Thats not politics. That’s news.
It has never been much different on Reddit. Maybe you only notice this here because people here tend to swing more left.
