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.
Everything is political. You’re just not aware of how the things you like are political.
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.
Abomination. That shit should be banned. I report them to mods.
I also did not come here for politics.
I came here as an alternative to reddit.
What I did to fix it was to find similar Lemmy communities to those subreddits. I also set up filtering to block out key words, names, etc.
It makes it a lot more bearable.
One thing I’ve noticed, Lemmy and Reddit are run in a large part by content bots when it comes to non-politics. There are some exceptions. I recommend you make peace with the bots and appreciate the content (all the while contributing content yourself of course).
lemmynsfw.world doesn’t have that much politics …
I mean, they have political stances, for example, they think people should be able to access porn, trans and gay people are ok, cartoon porn is not the same as CP, and similar things.
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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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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.
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.
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.
I have quite extensive content filter list that hides every post containing popular terms related to US politics. Often that means hiding two thirds of my front page. However, what remains is still all politics.
Why is it like this? I have no idea. Maybe they’re trying to keep this place as unattractive for new users as possible.
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.
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
